data governance

Microsoft’s latest Canary‑channel experiment pushes intelligence deeper into the Windows shell: a new AI actions submenu in File Explorer lets you right‑click images to run Bing Visual Search, blur or remove backgrounds, and erase objects — all without opening a full editor. This context‑aware...

Microsoft’s latest packaging of its agent-building tools — now split into Copilot Studio Lite and the Copilot Studio Full Experience — is less a rename and more a strategic reframe: the company is clarifying who these tools are for, where they run, and how enterprises should govern them. The...

Anthropic has rolled out an optional Memory capability for Claude that is now available to Team and Enterprise plan customers, enabling the assistant to retain and recall project- and work-related context across sessions while giving admins and users controls to view, edit, and disable what the...

Research Solutions’ launch of an AI Rights add‑on for its Article Galaxy platform promises to remove a major legal and operational barrier to enterprise use of generative AI against paywalled scientific literature, offering instant rights verification, one‑click acquisition, and retroactive...

Monotch has made its TLEX® Interchange available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, opening a fast path for public authorities, integrators, and infrastructure owners to deploy a standards-aligned, cloud-native data exchange engine for connected mobility and C-ITS projects without building...

Microsoft’s enterprise AI push has reached a new milestone with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business now positioned as a paid, tenant-grade add‑on that embeds generative AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and a growing set of agent-driven automation tools — and with that promise...

When the first “employee” of a startup is an AI agent, everything that founders, investors, and HR teams thought they knew about building organizations is suddenly negotiable — from who gets hired and why, to how decisions are made, who owns accountability, and what leadership looks like in...

Microsoft used the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference to lay down a clear, product‑level road map for how it expects AI to reshape the enterprise — centering that plan on Microsoft 365 Copilot, a multi‑model infrastructure called Azure AI Foundry, and a “front end as platform”...

ISDI’s new partnership with Microsoft turns generative AI from classroom theory into a tangible career asset for Executive MBA students, embedding agent-building and Copilot-powered workflows directly into the school’s flagship MIB program so graduates leave with a trained, exportable AI agent...

Microsoft’s enterprise Copilot strategy takes a clear step toward simplification and scale: starting in October, role‑based Copilots for Sales, Service, and Finance will be folded into the core Microsoft 365 Copilot experience and made broadly available through the new Copilot Agent Store — and...

Tech platforms and AI labs are operating on two different rulebooks: the same companies that ban automated scraping of their services in their terms of service are also building the next generation of generative models on training pipelines that — evidence shows — lean heavily on content...

Ralph Lauren has put a chatbot in the business of taste: Ask Ralph, an in‑app stylist built with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI, is now rolling out to U.S. app users and promising shoppable, head‑to‑toe looks that translate decades of archive imagery into instant styling advice. The launch is a clear...

Ralph Lauren has rolled out Ask Ralph, a conversational AI stylist embedded in the brand's mobile app, delivering head-to-toe, shoppable outfit recommendations that the company says are personalized to users’ prompts and drawn from live inventory. Launched on September 9, 2025, and built in...

Google has announced a dramatic change to how it charges for cloud data movement in the European Union and United Kingdom, waiving fees for certain multicloud transfers through a new “Data Transfer Essentials” option that it says is available at no cost — a move timed to land just ahead of the...

ENGIE Impact’s leap into cloud-native AI shows how a specialist sustainability consultancy can turn mass invoice and supplier data into sharper risk signals and faster client value by running Azure AI Foundry, Azure Databricks, and Microsoft 365 Copilot together in a governed Azure estate. The...

Capita’s fast-moving push to embed Microsoft Copilot agents into everyday operations is moving beyond pilot projects into live, measurable service transformation — cutting email response times, automating high-volume tasks, and wiring AI-driven “agents” into end-to-end processes for clients and...

Crimson’s briefing for Housing Digital makes a persuasive case that social housing providers who have already adopted Microsoft Power Platform can—and should—move well beyond simple forms and automations to deliver measurable, tenant-centred improvements across repairs, tenancy management...

Olandria Carthen’s post‑villa momentum took a turn toward purposeful visibility this week as the Love Island USA Season 7 alum reunited two of the most powerful narratives in contemporary culture—HBCU pride and generative AI—by spotlighting Tuskegee University through Microsoft Copilot in a...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot delivered a familiar but important paradox: users reported real and concentrated time savings—especially on written work and meeting summaries—but the evaluation could not find robust evidence that those...

Ralph Lauren’s new conversational stylist, Ask Ralph, is rolling out to U.S. app users today — a generative-AI feature built with Microsoft on the Azure OpenAI platform that promises brand-curated, shoppable outfit suggestions delivered through natural-language conversation and visual laydowns...