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Microsoft’s latest push turns Teams into a hybrid workspace where AI is not just an assistant but a teammate — a suite of specialized, context-aware agents is being rolled into Microsoft 365 Copilot to run meetings, summarize channels, and act as an on-call community expert across Viva Engage...

Microsoft has begun rolling Gaming Copilot into the Windows 11 Game Bar, turning the overlay that millions of PC players already use into a live, context-aware AI assistant for in-game help, coaching, and account-aware recommendations. Background Microsoft first introduced Copilot-branded...

Microsoft’s latest Insider builds repurpose the SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen into a full‑screen, blocking renewal prompt that reminds users a Microsoft 365 subscription “needs attention” — a test that has reignited debates about whether Windows should be used as a sales...

The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...

Australian small and medium businesses are sprinting to adopt generative AI — often by pasting confidential company data into free consumer tools — and that rush is creating a clear, demonstrable security and compliance gap that needs urgent remediation. Background / Overview The latest...

Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...

Thai in‑house counsel and litigation teams face a 2025 inflection point: generative AI has moved from experimental “time‑saver” to a regulated, business‑critical toolset that must be evaluated for PDPA compliance, explainability, and defensibility before it is used on client matters. The Nucamp...

Google has moved to eliminate a key friction point for organisations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in Europe and the UK, announcing that its Data Transfer Essentials service will be available at no cost for customers processing workloads “in parallel” across two or more...

Mozilla has added a way to turn off its new AI features — but only for IT administrators, not ordinary users, leaving privacy‑minded consumers stuck with an awkward manual workaround or buried about:config toggles to fully opt out. Background Firefox has been steadily adding on‑device and...

Microsoft’s productivity stack is entering a new, more plural era: after years of deep integration with OpenAI’s models, Microsoft is reported to be adding Anthropic’s Claude — specifically the Sonnet model family — into Office 365’s Copilot workflows, creating a multi‑model orchestration that...

Firefox Nightly users can now summon Microsoft Copilot from the browser sidebar — an optional, opt‑in hook that exposes Copilot’s chat, voice and summarization capabilities inside Firefox while reopening a broader debate about privacy, platform boundaries, and the creeping normalization of...

Mozilla has quietly added Microsoft Copilot to Firefox Nightly’s built‑in AI sidebar, bringing the same Quick Response, Think Deeper and a new “Smart (GPT‑5)” mode that Microsoft uses in Edge — a move that accelerates browser-level AI competition but raises immediate questions about privacy...

Microsoft’s push to put Copilot everywhere just took another step into the enterprise social layer: Microsoft 365 Copilot is now integrated with Viva Engage, turning the platform formerly known as Yammer into an AI-assisted hub for composing posts, catching up on conversations, and surfacing...

Satya Nadella’s public showcase of five Copilot prompts crystallizes a new moment in executive work: AI is not just a drafting tool anymore but a context-aware, predictive chief of staff that reasons across calendars, emails, chats and documents to surface priorities, probabilities and prep for...

When a single AI service becomes central to millions of workflows, a short outage stops more than casual conversation — it exposes systemic fragility and forces users to choose alternatives they may previously have ignored. Recent market shifts and intermittent service interruptions have pushed...

Microsoft quietly added a native option in Windows 11 to push your PC clipboard to Android — and in early hands‑on testing it appears to land inside any Android keyboard that reads the system clipboard, including Gboard. (windowslatest.com) Overview Windows 11’s clipboard has long been more than...

Satya Nadella has publicly shown how he uses five short, repeatable ChatGPT-style prompts inside Microsoft Copilot to “supercharge” his executive workflow — calling Copilot “a new layer of intelligence spanning all my apps” and framing the assistant less as a drafting tool and more as a...

Microsoft’s Windows lead has just sketched a future in which the operating system becomes ambient, multimodal and agentic — able to listen, see, and act — a shift powered by a new class of on‑device AI and tight hardware integration that will reshape how organisations manage and secure Windows...

Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...

Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to bring Microsoft Copilot — the company’s generative AI assistant — to Samsung’s 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, folding natural‑language AI into large displays via Samsung’s new Vision AI framework and a Copilot web experience built into the screens. This move...