enterprise ai

  1. AI in the Workplace 2025: Copilots, Productivity, Governance & Upskilling

    By 2025, artificial intelligence has moved from the edges of enterprise dreams into the center of the daily work routine, changing not just how tasks are completed but how organizations structure roles, measure value, and define productivity. Background / Overview AI’s penetration into the...
  2. GPT-5: Unified Fast and Thinking Modes with Bigger Context for Apps

    OpenAI’s GPT‑5 arrived as a clear strategic push to make the next generation of large language models the default intelligence layer for consumer and enterprise apps — a unifying architecture that promises deeper reasoning, much larger context, and built‑in routing between fast and “thinking”...
  3. Personality-Free AI: Practical Design for Neutral OS Assistants

    The Case for Personality‑Free AI A practical, ethical, and technical argument for keeping our assistants professional — and how to design AI that helps without pretending to be human By WindowsForum.com contributor — August 15, 2025 Summary: As AI moves from isolated tools into always‑on...
  4. ATO to Pilot Enterprise AI Coding Assistant for 800 Developers

    The Australian Taxation Office is preparing to pilot an enterprise-grade AI coding assistant for its roughly 800 core developers, a move that could reshape how government software is produced — from legacy COBOL modernization to automated test generation — while raising familiar questions about...
  5. Five Tech Titans Shaping Global Cloud, AI, and Quantum

    The five technology companies that now steer global digital transformation—Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Microsoft, Apple, and IBM—are not merely the biggest names on the cap table; they are the engines that power cloud infrastructure, enterprise AI, consumer-device ecosystems, and the earliest...
  6. Shadow AI, Workforce Shifts, and Grants: A Secure HR-IT AI Playbook

    This week’s HR headlines lay bare a widening disconnect between how work gets done and how employers think it should be done: nearly half of employees report using banned AI tools to speed their tasks, the U.S. Department of Labor is offering $30 million in grants to push employer-led training...
  7. Gemini-powered image editing in Slides & Vids: Replace background and expand

    Google has rolled Gemini-powered image editing directly into Google Slides and Google Vids, adding two AI tools — Replace background and Background expansion — that let users swap or extend image backgrounds with text prompts and intelligent outpainting. The features aim to help non-designers...
  8. GPT-5 Connectors and Microsoft Copilot Transform Enterprise AI

    OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch was staged as a Google-friendly moment — Gmail and Google Calendar were shown on-screen — but the quiet, rapid work under the hood handed Microsoft a far broader, more consequential prize: deeper GPT-5 integration across Teams, SharePoint, GitHub, Copilot, and Azure that...
  9. Copilot vs Gemini: Enterprise AI Pricing, Lock‑in, and CIO Playbook

    Microsoft and Google are not selling "chatbots" so much as they are weaponizing generational artificial intelligence to deepen platform revenue, raise switching costs, and turn productivity into a recurring, high-margin business line — a reality that is already reshaping enterprise IT budgets...
  10. GPT-5 Backlash: OpenAI Reverts to GPT-4o, Warmer Tone & New Personality Controls

    OpenAI’s GPT‑5 rollout has hit an early snag: a technically ambitious upgrade that promised sharper reasoning, larger context windows and selectable “thinking” modes provoked an unexpected user backlash over tone, prompting the company to restore the older GPT‑4o model for paying users and to...
  11. OpenAI Goes Multi-Cloud: ChatGPT on Google Cloud, Azure, CoreWeave & Oracle

    OpenAI’s decision to run ChatGPT and its API on Google Cloud — alongside Microsoft Azure, CoreWeave, and Oracle — marks a decisive shift from single-provider reliance to a multi-cloud infrastructure designed to relieve crushing compute demand, reduce vendor risk, and squeeze performance and cost...
  12. Bria and Microsoft for Startups: Licensed, Developer-First AI on Azure

    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...
  13. AgentFlayer: Zero-Click Hijacks Threaten Enterprise AI

    Zenity Labs’ Black Hat presentation unveiled a dramatic new class of threats to enterprise AI: “zero‑click” hijacking techniques that can silently compromise widely used agents and assistants — from ChatGPT to Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce Einstein, and Google Gemini — allowing attackers to...
  14. Nimble Gravity Acquires Fog Solutions to Accelerate Azure/Databricks AI Delivery

    Nimble Gravity’s acquisition of Fog Solutions marks a fast-moving consolidation play in the boutique data-and-AI consultancy market, adding roughly 50 specialists and deep Microsoft–Databricks engineering capabilities to a firm that has been actively scaling through investment and earlier deals...
  15. GPT-5 in Microsoft Copilot and GitHub: Unified Model Routing for Enterprise AI

    Microsoft’s Copilot family and developer tools have been upgraded to run OpenAI’s newly released GPT‑5 across consumer and enterprise surfaces, bringing a unified “smart” model-routing approach, deeper reasoning, and larger context windows to everyday productivity, code generation, and custom...
  16. Copilot and GPT-5 reshape Microsoft productivity across Windows and Microsoft 365

    Microsoft’s Copilot has moved fast from a marketing phrase to a platform-level feature that now shapes how millions of people search, write, schedule, analyze data, and even debug code — and with the arrival of GPT‑5 across Microsoft surfaces, that transformation has accelerated into a new phase...
  17. NTT DATA Launches Global Microsoft Cloud Unit to Scale Enterprise AI

    NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a clear escalation in the race to move enterprise AI from lab experiments into production-grade, sovereign-ready deployments—an initiative that bundles Azure, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure AI Foundry and Dynamics...
  18. GPT-5 vs Grok 4 Heavy: Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI in Enterprise AI Wars

    The knives are out in Silicon Valley: within hours of Microsoft rolling OpenAI’s GPT-5 into its product stack, Elon Musk publicly warned Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella that “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive,” setting off a public skirmish that crystallizes a widening strategic fault line...
  19. Accenture Scales GitHub Copilot with Structured AI Enablement

    Accenture’s bold, large-scale embrace of GitHub Copilot—backed by a structured Microsoft Learn training pipeline and a gamified enablement program—has rapidly moved the consulting giant from pilot to production, equipping thousands of developers with AI-assisted coding tools and creating a...
  20. NTT DATA & Microsoft Cloud: Agentic AI at Scale

    NTT DATA’s new global business unit for Microsoft Cloud marks a clear and ambitious step to turn enterprise AI promise into large-scale production deployments, pairing NTT DATA’s consulting heft with Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Agent Service and Copilot capabilities to deliver Agentic...