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Microsoft’s decision to terminate multiple employees after an on‑campus sit‑in over alleged uses of Azure in Israeli military intelligence operations has turned a workplace protest into a major corporate governance and technology‑ethics crisis for the company — one that raises urgent questions...

Samsung’s move to bake Microsoft Copilot into TizenOS for its 2025 Smart TVs and Smart Monitors represents more than a consumer convenience feature — it rewrites the rules for how displays can be deployed, managed, and monetized in commercial environments. The integration shifts heavy generative...

Windows 11’s AI-first push has turned into a study in contradictions: promising productivity shortcuts and local intelligence on one hand, and on the other hand delivering a fragmented, confusing, and sometimes privacy-ambiguous user experience that many feel undermines the core job of an...

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is now appearing in more campus environments — including announcements from higher‑education IT teams — but at least one university link meant to explain the rollout is returning a 404, underscoring how fast the product is moving and how fragile institutional...

Satya Nadella says he now runs parts of his day with GPT‑5 inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, sharing five concrete prompts that have moved the assistant from a helpful tool to a strategic layer in his schedule, meeting prep, project assessment and risk spotting. Background Microsoft’s rapid roll‑out...

Microsoft’s Copilot is no longer confined to laptops and phones — it has arrived on the living-room screen, built into Samsung’s 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors as a voice-first, visual assistant designed for group use, content discovery, and light productivity on large displays. This rollout folds...

San Francisco has quietly pushed one of the largest municipal deployments of generative AI in the United States, rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o—out across tens of thousands of city employees with promises of measurable productivity gains, faster resident service...

Microsoft’s latest push to fold everyday feedback workflows into its AI assistant stack landed this week with the public preview of Surveys Agent, an AI-powered agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot that promises to let teams design, launch, monitor, and analyze surveys from a single conversational...

Canadian universities are no longer debating whether to engage with generative artificial intelligence — they are designing how to manage it. In the last 18 months a clear pattern has emerged across Canada’s major campuses: centrally provisioned, enterprise-grade AI tools such as Microsoft...

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...

Anthropic’s new Chrome extension quietly signals the next phase of enterprise AI: assistants that don’t just answer questions but act inside your browser — clicking, filling, and navigating like a human. The company has begun a controlled pilot of Claude for Chrome, inviting 1,000 paying...

Microsoft is rolling generative AI into Phone Link on Windows 11 so the app can suggest three ready-made SMS replies when you get a text — a convenience feature that’s enabled by default, uses a cloud-based “intelligent suggestion model,” and uploads recent conversation text to Microsoft...

The NFL’s decision to deploy Microsoft Copilot across every club sideline this season marks one of the clearest inflection points yet in the marriage of professional sports and artificial intelligence, trading manual film-scrubbing and static stat sheets for AI-assisted filters, Excel-powered...

Microsoft president Brad Smith’s compact public line — “some of what was reported needs to be tested” — is the latest punctuation in a rapidly escalating crisis for Azure, Microsoft’s relationships with the Israeli security establishment, and the cloud industry’s role in wartime intelligence and...

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...

Brighton Hill Community School has begun what its leaders call a “reinvention” of everyday teaching by rolling out a campus-wide fleet of Acer TravelMate laptops equipped with Intel processors and Microsoft Copilot, in a partnership involving Acer, Intel and Microsoft that aims to embed...

Microsoft’s president doubled down on a promise to investigate the company’s ties to Israel because a cascade of investigative reporting, a forceful United Nations inquiry, escalating employee activism, investor pressure and fresh allegations about large-scale use of Microsoft Azure by Israeli...

Employees across industries are telling researchers and reporters the same thing: learning to use artificial intelligence at work feels like another full-time job — and many are quietly overwhelmed — but an often‑overlooked resource can help shrink that curve: your professional network...

LinkedIn’s pivot to paying creators is already reshaping the B2B advertising playbook—and the move could be one of the clearest strategic accelerants for Microsoft’s ad and cloud ecosystem this decade. The thesis is simple: by turning professional content into a monetizable, creator-driven feed...

Elon Musk’s Macrohard announcement is less a polished product launch than a deliberate provocation — a public wager that agentic, AI-first software factories can be built at scale and will ultimately reshape how enterprise applications are created, tested, and maintained. The concept is...