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Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...

Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...

Microsoft’s MAI launch is a deliberate pivot: the company is taking the pieces it once licensed, packaging them with native infrastructure and orchestration tools, and betting the future of productivity on a team of specialized agents rather than a single, monolithic brain. This matters for...

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...

More than a third of New Zealand’s retail investors now report using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to inform investment decisions — and a substantial majority of those users say they are satisfied with the results — a shift that is reshaping how ordinary investors...

More than a third of New Zealand retail investors now say they use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to inform their investment decisions — and a large majority report being satisfied with the outcomes — a shift that is simultaneously pragmatic and precarious for markets...

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs has quietly moved from talk to trial: a beta AI-powered search is now live on the DVA website, the agency has published an AI transparency statement, and small-scale pilots — including an internal Microsoft Copilot trial and a proof‑of‑concept claims tool...

Artificial-intelligence forecasts from multiple platforms lined up behind the Philadelphia Eagles ahead of the NFL’s Week 1 Thursday night opener — and while the models overestimated the margin, they correctly picked the winner as the Eagles edged the Cowboys 24–20 at Lincoln Financial Field...

Chrome is quietly becoming an AI platform — and the consequences are already rippling through privacy, competition, and enterprise planning. Background / Overview The past week has delivered three tightly coupled developments that deserve close attention: Anthropic’s pilot of Claude for Chrome...

Jon von Tetzchner’s renewed vow to keep generative AI out of Vivaldi’s browser has turned what might have been a niche product decision into a full‑scale manifesto about the future of the web — and a direct challenge to Google and Microsoft’s push to bake AI into the browsing experience...

Microsoft has quietly crossed a strategic Rubicon: after years of tight integration with OpenAI, the company has begun shipping its own first-party foundation models — notably MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview — and is positioning them inside Copilot and Azure as the start of a long-term bid to...

Microsoft’s AI unit has publicly launched two in‑house models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — signaling a deliberate shift from purely integrating third‑party frontier models toward building product‑focused models Microsoft can own, tune, and route inside Copilot and Azure. Background...

Elon Musk’s xAI has quietly converted a social-media tease into a formal trademark filing and a full‑blown strategic salvo at Microsoft: the “Macrohard” project promises a purely AI software company built from cooperating agentic models, powered by xAI’s Grok family and the Colossus...

The NFL has moved from hardware sponsorship to an explicit “AI‑first” operational phase with Microsoft, refreshing the league’s Sideline Viewing System and rolling Microsoft Copilot, Azure OpenAI services, and a fleet of Surface Copilot+ devices into sideline workflows, scouting and Combine...

Microsoft has officially moved Copilot from a marketing talking point into the operational fabric of professional football: a multiyear extension with the NFL announced on August 20, 2025 upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot‑enabled Surface Copilot+ devices, embeds Azure AI...

The case for treating ethical AI governance and human-centric design as core investment themes has moved from niche moral argument to clear strategic imperative, and the market is responding with capital, products, and policy. Recent industry forecasts and regulatory shifts show a rapidly...

Fundamental Research Labs’ new product, Shortcut, has forced a familiar office question into the open: if spreadsheets can be written, audited, and modeled by agentic AI from a single natural-language prompt, does anybody still need to open Excel every day? Background Fundamental Research Labs...

Bria’s collaboration with Microsoft for Startups has done more than add a logo to a partner page — it has plugged a responsible, developer-first visual generative AI into Azure’s ecosystem, giving startups a practical path to scale image generation, editing, and brand-safe visual pipelines while...

The rapidly evolving landscape of national defense and intelligence is undergoing a profound transformation, propelled by the infusion of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technologies. In this context, the recent collaboration between Figure Eight Federal (F8F) and Microsoft has emerged as a...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are now integral to the daily operations of countless organizations, from critical infrastructure providers to federal agencies and private industry. As these systems become more sophisticated and central to decision-making, the security of...