The NFL and Microsoft this week turned a decade‑long sideline hardware relationship into an explicit, multiyear push to make generative AI a routine part of game‑day operations — equipping the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot‑enabled Surface devices, piloting Azure AI Foundry...
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The NFL and Microsoft announced a multiyear extension of their long-running technology partnership that formally moves the league into an AI-first operational phase — bringing Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI services, and an expanded Surface device rollout onto sidelines, into scouting workflows and...
The NFL’s multiyear extension with Microsoft marks a decisive shift: Copilot and Azure AI are no longer pilot projects or back‑office curiosities — they are being embedded across the league’s Sideline Viewing System, scouting workflows, stadium operations, and club business functions in a bid to...
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The NFL’s decision to fold generative AI and Microsoft’s Copilot into its sideline toolkit marks a decisive shift: intelligent assistance is moving from back-office analytics into the heat of game-day decision-making, scouting, and stadium operations in a multiyear expansion of the league’s...
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Microsoft’s decade‑long Surface presence on NFL sidelines has quietly evolved into an AI‑first operational program: the league’s Sideline Viewing System (SVS) has been upgraded with more than 2,500 Surface Copilot+ PCs and integrated Copilot and Azure AI tooling to give coaches, scouts and club...
The NFL has quietly but decisively moved its long-running technology partnership with Microsoft into an AI-first operational phase, extending a multiyear deal that layers Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, and new Surface Copilot+ devices into sideline workflows, scouting, stadium operations, and...
The NFL’s long-running technology relationship with Microsoft has formally entered an AI-first phase, as a multiyear extension folds Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI services, and an expanded Surface device footprint into sideline operations, scouting workflows, broadcast tooling, and front-office...
The NFL’s long-running technology relationship with Microsoft has officially entered an AI-first phase: a multiyear extension announced in August upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot-powered tools, expands Azure AI into scouting and operations, and promises richer...
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The NFL’s long-running technology relationship with Microsoft has entered an explicitly AI-first phase: a multiyear extension announced on August 20, 2025, brings Copilot-powered assistants to coaches’ Surface tablets, expands Azure cloud infrastructure inside stadiums, and folds generative AI...
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Microsoft’s expanded deal with the NFL is not a simple renewal — it’s an explicit push to fold generative AI and cloud-first tools deeper into the game-day workflow, from the sideline to scouting rooms and front-office operations.
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The partnership between Microsoft and the NFL dates...
Manufacturers face a pivotal moment: cloud modernization paired with AI is no longer an optional efficiency play but a strategic imperative that can reshape product lifecycles, R&D velocity, and factory-floor operations at scale, as outlined in a recent industry brief that catalogs major...
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Ricoh Asia Pacific has launched a region‑wide “AI Learning Week” to rapidly arm more than a thousand employees with practical AI skills, accelerate Microsoft 365 Copilot and agent adoption, and convert device‑centric offerings into outcomes‑driven services for enterprise customers.
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Microsoft’s Copilot branding has quietly become the connective tissue for a new generation of imagined and real-world AI hardware — and the latest speculative designs show how familiar form factors (earbuds, pins, pendants) might finally fulfill the original promise of Google Glass without a...
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Microsoft’s public push to marry artificial intelligence, edge computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) has moved from concept to catalogue: Azure IoT Edge runtime, Azure Sphere, Azure Digital Twins and a string of enterprise pilots show a deliberate strategy to make IoT development faster...
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Microsoft announced a collaboration with National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Turing Drive and ADLINK to build what the partners described as Asia’s first Azure AI–driven self‑driving vehicle, a university-led proof‑of‑concept that stitches Microsoft Azure’s cloud AI...
NVIDIA’s decision to host Omniverse Cloud on Microsoft Azure marks a turning point for enterprises that want to build large-scale, secure digital twin and industrial simulation environments without the friction of managing complex, GPU‑heavy infrastructure themselves. The collaboration —...
The AI infrastructure era is consolidating around three firms that sit at the intersection of design, fabrication, and deployment: Nvidia for compute architectures and software stacks, TSMC for the advanced manufacturing that turns designs into reality, and Microsoft for the cloud fabric and...
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Microsoft’s leap forward in local AI computing took a pivotal turn with the debut of OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b for Windows 11. Signaling a new era for accessible artificial intelligence, the tech giant now offers advanced language modeling directly on consumer PCs—no cloud connection required. This...
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A new era for desktop computing is unfolding as Microsoft officially integrates OpenAI’s open-weight GPT-OSS-20B model—the most compact of OpenAI’s latest large language models—directly into Windows 11. This strategic move isn’t simply about embedding artificial intelligence into the world’s...
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A transformative chapter has begun in the world of desktop computing as Microsoft officially integrates OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b model—its most compact, open-source large language model—directly into Windows 11. This move signals a dramatic shift toward on-device artificial intelligence capabilities...
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