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Microsoft this week expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal productivity assistant into a suite of context‑aware team agents that live inside Teams channels, SharePoint sites, Viva Engage communities, and meetings — agents that can prepare agendas, take notes, manage projects, tag and...

NVIDIA and a coalition of partners have announced what they describe as the United Kingdom’s largest coordinated push to build onshore AI supercomputing capacity: an industrial-scale programme of “AI factories” and sovereign compute zones that promises up to £11 billion of investment and as many...

The U.S. House of Representatives is reversing course on a high‑profile digital ban and will begin a managed, one‑year pilot to give thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot — a move framed as institutional modernization but one that raises immediate questions about tenancy...

The U.S. House of Representatives is shifting from prohibition to pilot: members and staff will be offered access to Microsoft Copilot under a managed, government‑scoped rollout announced at the Congressional Hackathon, a move framed by leadership as part of a broader push to modernize...

Microsoft’s quiet nudge toward a cloud-first file culture is now more than design preference — it’s a default behavior baked into Windows setup and Office that reshapes how most people will create, save, and think about their documents. Background Microsoft’s strategy has been moving toward...

Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that frames the “next phase” of one of the technology sector’s most consequential partnerships — preserving deep commercial ties while opening the door to multicloud compute, a governance restructure at OpenAI, and...

Ukraine’s customer‑service teams face a simple fact in 2025: the volume, velocity, and multilingual nature of support requests make AI tools less of a luxury and more of an operational necessity — but picking the right tools, piloting them against real KPIs, and protecting data and jobs must...

The long-running honeymoon between Microsoft and OpenAI has entered a new, more transactional phase: the two companies have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that lays out a revised partnership framework while OpenAI pursues a controversial restructure that hands a very...

Microsoft has quietly begun a major pivot in the architecture that powers the AI features inside Office apps: Copilot will now route select workloads to Anthropic’s Claude family — notably the Sonnet 4 models — while continuing to use OpenAI models and Microsoft’s own engines where they remain...

WP Engine’s announcement that it is launching its enterprise platform in the United Arab Emirates — enabling customers across the Gulf to run managed WordPress workloads on Microsoft Azure in Dubai — is a material expansion for enterprise WordPress hosting in the region and a pragmatic answer to...

Microsoft’s reported decision to license Anthropic’s Claude models into Microsoft 365 — bringing them into productivity features in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook — is the most explicit signal yet that Microsoft plans to move from a single‑vendor AI stack to a multi‑model Copilot strategy...

Microsoft’s Office productivity stack is entering a new phase: after years of deep reliance on OpenAI, Microsoft will begin routing select Copilot workloads inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook to Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 models, creating a multi‑model Copilot that assigns the “right...

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...

Microsoft’s Office productivity stack is entering a deliberate, workload‑focused transformation: Redmond will begin routing select Copilot and Office 365 features to Anthropic’s Claude models — notably the Sonnet 4 family — alongside continued use of OpenAI and Microsoft’s own models, a...

Microsoft’s decision to fold Anthropic’s models into Office 365 represents a deliberate, high-stakes recalibration of its AI supply chain — one that pares dependence on a single vendor, broadens technical options inside Copilot features, and reshapes enterprise risk calculations for productivity...

Microsoft’s OneDrive Backup can be switched on for you during Windows 11 setup — but your files aren’t stolen; they’ve simply been moved into OneDrive and synced. If you prefer your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop to live locally, the change is reversible: stop folder backup in OneDrive, then...

Thanks to OpenAI’s early consumer push, the generative AI era that reshaped work life began in plain sight — and business users have kept voting with their keyboards. What started as a viral consumer tool has become a persistent presence inside enterprises, while legacy software vendors and...

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...

Microsoft’s push to fold generative AI into everyday file management just moved a major step closer to most Windows users: Microsoft 365’s Copilot is now integrated with OneDrive inside Windows, letting subscribers invoke Copilot actions from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center on the...

A UK government Proof of Concept (PoC) led by Hitachi Solutions Europe has shown that Microsoft applications — including Power Platform, Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Copilot — can securely operate on live data that remains resident in Amazon Web Services (AWS) without copying or moving that...