Aramco’s new memorandum of understanding with Microsoft signals a deliberate push to move industrial AI from experimental pilots into core operations — anchoring that ambition to Microsoft Azure while insisting on sovereign-ready controls, skills development, and co‑innovation that could reshape...
Saudi Aramco’s non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Microsoft marks a clear inflection point in the Kingdom’s industrial digitization: the two companies will explore co‑developing and deploying Azure‑based industrial AI across Aramco’s global operations, with an explicit focus on...
Aramco’s new memorandum of understanding with Microsoft signals a decisive push to move industrial artificial intelligence from experimental pilots into core, operational systems across the energy giant’s global footprint — a plan that foregrounds sovereign-ready cloud infrastructure, edge...
Aramco’s announcement on February 12, 2026 that it has signed a non‑binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Microsoft to expand industrial artificial intelligence (AI) across its operations represents a deliberate pivot from experimentation to large‑scale, cloud‑anchored deployment — one...
Aramco’s non‑binding Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft signals a concrete push to move industrial artificial intelligence from pilot projects into core operations, pairing Saudi Arabia’s oil‑and‑gas titan with one of the world’s largest cloud and AI platforms to pursue sovereign‑ready...
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Google appears to be closing a small but persistent UX gap in Chrome on Windows by adding support for dragging and downloading multiple files from web apps directly into File Explorer — a change spotted in a recent Chromium code update that would let one drag action represent a group download...
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Microsoft and Mercedes‑AMG PETRONAS have converted a paddock sponsorship into a strategic, multi‑year technology alliance that places Microsoft Azure, GitHub and Microsoft 365 at the center of Mercedes’ engineering, simulation and trackside decision systems as Formula 1 enters its 2026 technical...
Dell’s latest partner push centralizes an old truth about the Internet of Things: nobody builds real-world, secure, scalable IoT solutions alone. The company today expanded its IoT partner ecosystem with a formalized IoT Partner Solutions Program that brings major platform and industrial vendors...
Microsoft’s recent flurry of announcements and product moves—spanning sensorized meeting-room displays, stronger protections for “data in use,” a commercial tie-up to bring Box storage tighter into Azure, and a problematic Windows 11 cumulative update that disrupted Azure Virtual Desktop...
SymphonyAI’s rollout of eight purpose‑built industrial AI applications for the CPG food and beverage sector signals a major push to move beyond generic “manufacturing AI” and into line‑speed, domain‑aware solutions that target the unique constraints of high‑velocity beverage and food production...
SymphonyAI’s announcement of eight new industrial AI applications tailored specifically for CPG food and beverage manufacturers signals a deliberate pivot from generic “manufacturing AI” to domain-specific solutions built for high-velocity, thermally complex, and changeover-heavy production...
Hanshow’s announcement at NRF 2026 that it is partnering with Microsoft to “explore the future framework of Store Digital Twin” signals a practical step toward a new, measurable phase of retail digital transformation—one that stitches in-store sensing, edge intelligence, and cloud-based digital...
Players worldwide were abruptly cut off from Minecraft Bedrock Realms when Microsoft-backed authentication and routing systems failed, leaving Realms inaccessible for hours and igniting an intense backlash from the game's massive community. The outage was not a game-engine crash; it was a...
Hexagon Robotics’ announcement of a strategic partnership with Microsoft marks a major step in the race to industrialize humanoid robotics—pairing Hexagon’s AEON humanoid and sensor-fusion stack with Microsoft Azure, Fabric Real‑Time Intelligence, and Azure IoT operations to deliver...
Cerence, NVIDIA, and Microsoft have taken a decisive step to put large language models and cloud-accelerated AI at the center of the next-generation in-car experience, with Cerence’s hybrid agentic platform, Cerence xUI, now optimized to run on NVIDIA AI Enterprise and deployed on Microsoft...
Unitech's announcement of the RT112 Windows tablet marks a milestone: a purpose-built, industrial-grade Windows-on-ARM device that pairs Qualcomm's Dragonwing-class QCM6490 platform with Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC, promising full Windows application compatibility, long battery life, and...
On a bright November morning, thousands of businesses and millions of internet users found themselves staring at the same message: a Cloudflare‑branded error or the blunt browser prompt, “Please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com to proceed,” as essential services — from ChatGPT and X to...
Vodafone’s latest pivot is no marketing tweak: it is an explicit attempt to recast a legacy, asset-heavy carrier as a software-first, developer-friendly platform spanning 5G, edge, IoT, cloud and programmable network APIs. The company is redeploying balance-sheet capital, selling passive...
Yogi Schulz’s Top‑10 reflections on information technology in 2025 crystallize a simple but profound idea: AI moved from a feature to an infrastructure layer that reshaped procurement, power planning, cybersecurity, and day‑to‑day operations across the energy industry.
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2025 closed as a year in which information technology stopped being an incremental operating expense and instead became a strategic, capital‑intensive layer that reshaped energy‑industry planning, hiring, procurement and risk management. The short, widely circulated Top‑10 list by Yogi Schulz...