Hexaware announced on July 27, 2023, that it is collaborating with Microsoft to bring its Tenjin for Knowledge Services platform to enterprises using Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service for generative AI-powered knowledge management. The announcement is not merely another partner press release in the...
Voxpopme announced on June 18, 2026, from Park City, Utah, that Voxpopme Insights for Microsoft Teams is now available through Microsoft Marketplace, letting Teams users query an organization’s Voxpopme research repository and receive summarized customer-backed answers inside Microsoft’s...
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Microsoft is reportedly selling OpenAI-powered AI services to major Chinese companies through Azure, with ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent among significant customers, despite OpenAI itself not offering direct API access in mainland China. The arrangement exposes the awkward middle...
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OpenAI is preparing to make ChatGPT available on GenAI.mil in early July 2026, giving as many as 3 million Pentagon civilian and military personnel access to a secured version of the chatbot through the Defense Department’s enterprise AI platform. The deployment is not simply another enterprise...
Catalent has launched Qai, its first enterprise AI quality-management tool, across its CDMO network in June 2026, using Microsoft AI technologies powered by Azure, including Microsoft Foundry and Fabric, to support deviations, complaints, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action workflows. The...
Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available worldwide on June 16, 2026, with usage-based billing for enterprise customers, while Axios reports the company is considering a Microsoft-hosted, fine-tuned DeepSeek model as a lower-cost option for the agentic workplace tool. That single pricing...
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Microsoft is fighting a proposed investor class action filed June 12, 2026, in federal court in Seattle over its Copilot disclosures, while reports say GitHub may add Amazon Web Services capacity to ease AI-driven reliability and scalability pressure. That pairing is awkward, but it is also...
Dun & Bradstreet said on June 16, 2026, in a PRNewswire release distributed from Hong Kong that its Commercial Graph is being integrated with Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft platforms so users can access verified business data in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, and Microsoft 365 Copilot. The...
Legal & General has signed a new three-year agreement with Microsoft to expand Microsoft 365 Copilot across its 10,000 global employees and deepen its use of Azure as the UK financial services group modernises customer service, data platforms, and internal operations. The announcement is not...
Dun & Bradstreet’s June 2026 integrations put its Commercial Graph inside ChatGPT, Codex, Microsoft 365 Copilot and Claude, giving enterprise users a way to call verified business identity, ownership, finance, risk and compliance data from AI workflows. The announcement is not just another “AI...
Seema Kumar has joined Databricks as Director of Field Engineering in India, announcing the move in a LinkedIn post after more than five years at Microsoft, where she most recently served as Senior Director for Azure Infrastructure Solutions. The appointment looks, at first glance, like another...
Google Research unveiled Gemini-SQL2 in June 2026 as a Gemini 3.1 Pro-based text-to-SQL system that converts natural-language questions into executable database queries and, according to reported BIRD benchmark results, reached 80.04 percent execution accuracy. That score puts Google’s system...
TeamCentral, a Cincinnati AI software company, is positioning its Central AI Hub and governed data infrastructure strategy around MCP-aligned enterprise agents in June 2026, arguing that manufacturers, distributors, and logistics firms need normalized, secured operational data before copilots...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at a live taping of The New York Times’ “Hard Fork” podcast in June 2026 that “a lot” of tokenmaxxing is happening inside Microsoft, while urging employees not to use frontier AI models for ordinary work. The quip landed because it said aloud what the AI industry...
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Microsoft on May 28, 2026, announced a redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot experience for desktop, mobile, and Office apps, promising faster loading, cleaner navigation, richer prompt handling, and higher usage across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook for enterprise and commercial users. The...
Samsung opened enterprise generative AI tools to employees in June 2026 after earlier restrictions, and SK Hynix is now evaluating ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft Copilot as South Korea’s memory giants turn AI from a product-market boom into an internal operating system. The symbolism is hard...
Smartsheet announced on June 11, 2026, that enterprise customers can connect ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise to its MCP Server, expanding beyond Claude while also adding Smart Assist as a native AI companion inside the Smartsheet platform. The move is less about...
Microsoft’s Copilot business is being reappraised in June 2026 after BNP Paribas analyst Stefan Slowinski argued, following meetings with Microsoft management, that the product has improved materially and could beat market expectations for paid enterprise adoption. The claim matters because...
Smartsheet announced in June 2026 that its MCP Server now connects with ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise, while also adding Smart Assist inside the Smartsheet platform for customers that want AI help without leaving the application. The move is less about another...
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On June 11, 2026, BNP Paribas analyst Stefan Slowinski reportedly said Microsoft’s Copilot capabilities have improved meaningfully over the past year, with customer engagement and NHS England’s large rollout strengthening the case that Microsoft can beat 25 million Copilot seats in its fiscal...