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There has been a sharp and measurable shift in how Irish mid‑market executives view artificial intelligence: the proportion who described AI as “over‑rated” or mostly hype has collapsed, firms are moving rapidly to formalise generative‑AI rules for staff, yet anxiety about data privacy has never...

Apple’s AI crossroads tightened this week as multiple reports say the company is quietly weighing an extraordinary course correction: instead of shipping its own large language model as the core of the long‑promised Siri overhaul, Apple is exploring licensing or otherwise using Google’s Gemini —...

Microsoft is quietly restoring a piece of the Windows 10 experience many users missed: a larger, in-your-face clock with seconds in the Notification Center — and it’s arriving alongside a set of AI shortcuts in File Explorer and new transparency controls for generative AI access in Windows 11’s...

Rutgers Business School is systematically embedding generative AI into course work across undergraduate and graduate programs, pairing hands-on tool experience with ethics, critical evaluation, and new degree tracks so students graduate with AI fluency that matches employer expectations for the...

Microsoft is quietly folding AI-powered image editing and Bing visual search directly into the File Explorer right‑click menu as part of Insider testing, a move that turns the once‑simple file manager into a micro‑workflow gateway for quick edits and visual lookups. Background Microsoft’s...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has added a near‑real‑time security control that routes an agent’s planned actions through external monitors—allowing organizations to approve or block tool calls and actions while an AI agent runs—and the capability is now available in public preview for Power...

Microsoft’s Copilot can now pull text out of a Word document and drop it into PowerPoint as a ready-to-edit slide — a small-seeming change with outsized implications for productivity, licensing, and IT planning, especially for organizations still on Windows 10 and watching Microsoft’s support...

Satya Nadella’s short thread on X showing five ChatGPT-5 prompts has done more than spark social-media conversation — it offers a practical blueprint for how Microsoft expects Copilot to reshape executive workflows, compress decision cycles, and push generative AI from “drafting tool” to a...

Microsoft’s latest pre-release whisper to the Windows Insider Program’s most experimental ring landed with a thud of déjà vu: the Canary channel recently received a new build — reported as Build 27938 — that mainly repackages features already seen elsewhere in the Insider ecosystem, notably...

Microsoft has shipped Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27938 to the Canary Channel, and the headline feature worth immediate attention is the introduction of AI actions in File Explorer — a right‑click context menu that brings image editing, web visual search, and document summarization into the...

Microsoft’s Copilot is getting quietly practical: you can now turn a Word document into a ready-to-edit PowerPoint slide in seconds — and for anyone still running Windows 10 there’s a second, much louder message: upgrade planning is no longer optional. This dual moment — an incremental but...

Microsoft’s work to move Copilot and Azure AI out of the office and into the vehicle cabin has taken a concrete step through an expanded relationship with Cerence — a partnership that stitches together in‑car voice assistants, Azure OpenAI capabilities, and the emerging third‑party agent...

Microsoft’s Copilot has evolved from a curious chatbot experiment into a sprawling, multi-surface productivity platform that now sits in Windows, Edge, mobile apps, Microsoft 365 and Azure tooling — and its capabilities span conversational drafting, multimodal image and audio generation, in‑app...

Factory-resetting a Windows 11 PC is no longer a mysterious or risky proposition — it’s a built-in recovery path that can fix persistent software problems, prepare a machine for resale, or simply give you a clean start; this guide walks through every practical option (including how to reset...

OpenAI's announcement that it will build an AI-powered jobs platform and a linked certification program marks a decisive expansion from conversational agents into workforce services — an initiative that could directly challenge Microsoft-owned LinkedIn, reshape hiring economics, and accelerate...

IFA 2025 made one thing unavoidably clear: artificial intelligence is no longer an experimental sidebar at trade shows — it’s the main stage. From conversational TV companions to penguin-like domesticated robots and a self‑flushing cat toilet that promises to log your pet’s health metrics, AI...

The AI you keep open in a browser tab is doing more than answering queries — it's broadcasting something about how you think, what you value, and how you want the world to work. A recent cultural riff that maps people to their preferred models — from OpenAI’s GPT‑5 users to xAI’s Grok fans and...

Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...

AI is already everywhere in the enterprise — and the biggest short-term risk may be that most employees don’t even realize they’re using it. Background The conversation about AI risk has, until recently, centered on sophisticated threats: algorithmic bias, model explainability, intellectual...

Artificial intelligence has gone from boardroom buzzword to an urgent operational question: executives know AI matters, but too many organisations are frozen at the starting line — unsure how to prioritise use cases, estimate costs, or keep data and compliance under control. Chris Badenhorst of...