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Microsoft has put generative AI directly into the cell grid: the new COPILOT function lets users type plain‑English prompts into Excel formulas and returns live, spillable outputs — summaries, classifications, tables and more — that update automatically as the underlying data changes. This...

Canadian universities are moving from denial to deliberate adoption of generative AI, embedding tools like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT Edu into campus systems while simultaneously wrestling with privacy, fairness, academic integrity, and sustainability risks. the last two years Canadian...

Microsoft has folded generative AI directly into Excel’s calculation engine with a native =COPILOT() formula that lets users type natural‑language prompts into cells, reference worksheet ranges for context, and receive live, spillable outputs that recalculate automatically when the source data...

Canadian universities are moving from debate to deployment: secure corporate AI assistants and campus-licensed models are now part of day‑to‑day IT offerings at multiple institutions, even as faculty, students and student groups urge caution over privacy, bias, academic integrity and...

Navatar’s new AI-powered CRM promises to meet M&A advisors where they already work — Outlook, Slack, and Salesforce — by automatically capturing activity, surfacing relationship intelligence, and embedding generative AI into deal origination and execution workflows. Background The financial...

Chatbots have moved from novelty to utility, and in 2025 a crowded field of capable, often free, AI assistants stands ready to handle everything from drafting emails and analyzing spreadsheets to generating images and supporting mental well‑being. The most practical choices depend on what you...

OpenAI’s India-first push with a new low-cost ChatGPT tier is reshaping the competitive landscape: on August 19, 2025 the company launched ChatGPT Go — a ₹399/month subscription that delivers access to GPT‑5-level capabilities, significantly higher usage limits, and native UPI payments — and the...

The era of the Frontier Firm has arrived: organizations that pair intelligence on tap with a modern cloud foundation are already pulling ahead, and the business case for migrating and modernizing on Microsoft Azure is now concrete, measurable, and urgent for leaders who want AI to scale across...

Ricoh’s Asia Pacific unit has kicked off a region‑wide initiative to turn its people and products into a practical bridge between hardware and AI-driven productivity—announcing an internal "AI Learning Week" co‑sponsored by Microsoft and talent partner Talogy that aims to accelerate Microsoft...

Microsoft has added two new reasoning agents, Researcher and Analyst, to the Microsoft 365 Copilot family — purpose-built AI assistants that lean on OpenAI’s latest o3 model family to perform multi-step research and data analysis across both web and enterprise data sources, and that will be...

Microsoft has flipped a switch that changes how the company—and millions of its customers—will think about productivity, development, and cloud AI: OpenAI’s newly announced GPT‑5 family is being rolled out across Microsoft’s Copilot portfolio, GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI Foundry in what...

Microsoft’s day‑one switch to OpenAI’s GPT‑5 across Copilot, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Visual Studio, and Azure AI Foundry represents the most comprehensive AI product overhaul in the company’s history — a coordinated, ecosystem‑wide move that folds a new family of reasoning models into the fabric...

Ricoh Asia Pacific’s internal push to make its workforce “future-ready” — anchored by a week-long, hands-on AI upskilling sprint co-sponsored by Microsoft and Talogy — signals a new phase in how hardware-first vendors are repositioning themselves as platform and services companies that sell...

Ricoh Asia Pacific has launched a coordinated, region-wide push to make its workforce “future-ready” by embedding AI fluency, Microsoft Copilot adoption, and custom AI agents into everyday operations — a program that crystallizes how hardware and services vendors are pivoting from product sales...

Microsoft’s early promise that “AI isn’t just for games” — articulated during the company’s 2016 Ignite and Build-era push — was never a marketing aside; it was a foundational strategy to weave machine intelligence into cloud infrastructure, productivity tools, and third‑party ecosystems. That...

Microsoft’s decision to bake OpenAI’s GPT‑5 into the heart of its consumer, developer, and enterprise products is one of the most consequential platform moves in recent memory — a coordinated, cross‑product rollout that promises deeper reasoning, longer context handling, and an automated...

OpenAI’s rollout of GPT‑5 has reshaped ChatGPT’s product landscape in ways that were predictable on paper but messy in practice: a unified, faster reasoning engine meant to simplify model choice accidentally erased a model many users loved, prompting an outcry that forced OpenAI to partially...

The arrival of GPT‑5 and the public reaction to it have exposed a familiar but urgent truth: incremental technical progress can sharpen capability while exposing unresolved safety, UX and trust problems — and a single real‑world harm can erase otherwise tidy marketing narratives. The Northwest...

OpenAI’s GPT‑5, Microsoft’s fresh wave of Windows 11 AI features, and ByteDance’s decision to open‑source Coze together mark one of the busiest weeks yet in consumer and developer AI—an abrupt convergence of model unification, desktop intelligence, and enterprise‑grade agent tooling that will...

OpenAI’s ChatGPT‑5 has arrived as a clear pivot from incremental “smarter chat” upgrades toward models built to reason—and the shift is already reshaping how Microsoft, developers, and everyday Windows users experience AI assistants on the desktop and in the cloud. Background: what landed and...