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Cloud providers’ quiet September previews revealed a pivot: enterprises are no longer satisfied with raw model accuracy alone — they want platforms that deliver security boundaries, governance, and predictable operations so generative AI can safely move into production. Background / Overview...

CBIZ today announced the commercial launch of Vertical Vector AI™, a new enterprise-focused artificial intelligence platform aimed at accelerating AI adoption in middle-market businesses by combining secure integration with existing Microsoft ecosystems, workflow-oriented features, and a...

The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a Microsoft-powered blockchain platform called Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), going live first with tokenized private funds and completing its inaugural blockchain-powered fundraising transaction — a move that shifts the conversation...

LSEG’s new Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), built in partnership with Microsoft and running on Microsoft Azure, has officially launched for private funds — and the platform has already facilitated its first tokenised fundraise, marking a major step toward mainstreaming tokenization across...

TierPoint’s announcement that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Private Cloud marks a notable step in the ongoing normalization of Azure-consistent private cloud offerings—and signals that major service providers are now formally recognized for running cloud-native...

Saudi Arabia’s deserts are rapidly being repurposed into one of the world’s most aggressive canvases for hyperscale data center expansion, a strategic pivot that combines vast land, cheap and increasingly green power, direct subsea connectivity, and state-backed capital to attract the biggest...

OpenAI and Microsoft have quietly signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding that lays the groundwork for OpenAI to restructure its commercial arm into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) while preserving the nonprofit oversight that has defined the organization since its founding — a...

Pennsylvania is moving from pilot to purchase order: Governor Josh Shapiro told more than 900 technology, academic and business leaders at the AI Horizons Summit in Pittsburgh that the commonwealth will expand access to advanced generative AI tools for qualified state employees — adding...

OpenAI’s long-running infrastructure romance with Microsoft has quietly shifted from exclusivity to pragmatic flexibility, and the implications reach far beyond two corporate balance sheets — they reshape how cloud capacity, regulatory risk, and enterprise resilience will play out as AI scales...

Zenity’s expanded integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio embeds inline, real‑time attack prevention directly into Copilot Studio agents, promising step‑level policy enforcement, data‑exfiltration controls, and telemetry for enterprises that want to scale agentic AI without surrendering...

Norway’s legal profession is at a decisive inflection point: by combining strict, fjord‑tested data protection rules with a newly modernised Lawyer Act, Norwegian firms can safely harvest huge productivity gains from generative AI — but only if they pick tools and deployment patterns that...

Google has announced a dramatic change to how it charges for cloud data movement in the European Union and United Kingdom, waiving fees for certain multicloud transfers through a new “Data Transfer Essentials” option that it says is available at no cost — a move timed to land just ahead of the...

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...

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 Office productivity stack is entering a new phase: after years of leaning hard on OpenAI, Redmond is reportedly adding Anthropic’s Claude family to the mix and routing certain Copilot workloads to the company’s Sonnet models — a pragmatic pivot toward multi‑vendor, workload‑specific...

Microsoft has quietly begun the most consequential recalibration of its productivity‑AI stack since Copilot’s debut: Office 365 will now route select Copilot workloads to Anthropic’s Claude family—most notably the Sonnet 4 lineage—alongside continued use of OpenAI models and Microsoft’s own...

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...

Google’s Gemini app can now accept audio uploads — a long‑requested capability that broadens Gemini’s multimodal reach and reshapes how users can transcribe, summarize, and analyze spoken content inside Google’s AI ecosystem. The rollout splits limits between free and paid tiers, extends Gemini...

Microsoft has pushed a significant enforcement point into the live execution path of enterprise AI agents: Copilot Studio now offers near‑real‑time runtime security controls that can route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors (Microsoft Defender, third‑party XDRs, or customer-hosted...

Microsoft has quietly shifted a crucial enforcement point for enterprise AI: Copilot Studio now offers near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors and receive an approve-or-block verdict while the agent executes...