enterprise governance

On August 7, 2025, OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5 and Microsoft announced the model would be powering Microsoft 365 Copilot the same day — a high‑visibility release that quickly turned into a cautionary case study about how model upgrades matter far less to most business users than context, integration...

Google and Microsoft have built two very different — and increasingly capable — AI companions, and choosing between Gemini and Copilot now means weighing ecosystem fit, multimodal power, privacy defaults, and pricing structure rather than just raw “intelligence.” The battlefield has shifted from...

Microsoft’s Copilot is not just growing — it’s accelerating faster on mobile than many expected, and recent Comscore data shows that the shift is reshaping the consumer and enterprise AI landscape in ways that matter for Windows users, IT teams, and marketers alike. The numbers tell two...

Microsoft’s short explainer on the four headline accessibility features for Copilot+ PCs reads like a manifesto for making Windows more conversational, readable, and usable — and it’s worth unpacking what those promises mean in practice, what’s already here, and where the trade‑offs lie...

Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s document-smarts: the web and Windows 11 Copilot surfaces can now reason across multiple uploaded files at once, bringing a ChatGPT-style multi-file analysis workflow to Microsoft’s assistant for free. The change — reported in a recent Windows Latest...

Microsoft’s Copilot now promises to do the heavy lifting of a first‑round literature review: produce multi‑page, citation‑backed Deep Research reports in minutes that synthesize web content, documents, images and PDFs into a structured deliverable you can drop into Word, PowerPoint or a...

Microsoft's Copilot has quietly received one of the most consequential behind-the-scenes upgrades since its rollout: the free tier now runs on OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo, bringing a much larger context window, a fresher knowledge base, and a set of performance fixes that address earlier complaints...

Elon Musk’s recent unveiling of Macrohard—a deliberately cheeky name for what he calls a “purely AI software company”—is more than a viral post: it’s a formal signal of intent from xAI that mixes trademark filings, infrastructure scale, legal maneuvering, and an explicit plan to monetize with...

Microsoft’s latest push to fold everyday feedback workflows into its AI assistant stack landed this week with the public preview of Surveys Agent, an AI-powered agent inside Microsoft 365 Copilot that promises to let teams design, launch, monitor, and analyze surveys from a single conversational...

Microsoft’s latest update to Copilot for Windows 11 pushes the assistant farther into the OS — adding third‑party extensions that let Copilot act on your behalf across the web, new “settings” skills that can change system options for you, and AI enhancements in core apps like Photos and...

Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio update tightens the reins on GitHub Copilot, giving developers explicit control over when suggestions appear, how much of a suggestion to accept, and whether predictive edits should interrupt their flow—changes that reshape Copilot from an always‑on assistant...

Microsoft has begun rolling out an update to the Copilot app on Windows that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot homepage to Insiders, delivering tighter, AI-driven file discovery and faster access to recent apps, files, and guided help directly inside the...

Microsoft has quietly moved generative AI from the Copilot side‑pane into Excel’s calculation engine itself, with a new COPILOT function that lets you call Copilot from any cell, pass natural‑language prompts and cell ranges as context, and receive live, recalculating outputs that behave like...

GitHub Spark plus Codespaces now makes it practical to generate a modern single‑page application (SPA) and deploy it directly into Microsoft Power Pages using the Power Platform CLI — a workflow that compresses days of setup into a few web-driven steps while keeping the final code and deployment...

Microsoft has begun rolling out GPT-5 inside Visual Studio via GitHub Copilot, bringing OpenAI’s newest coding model to paid Copilot users and promising faster responses, stronger reasoning on large problems, and clearer, more maintainable code suggestions that can handle end-to-end engineering...

I asked Microsoft’s Copilot to make a dinner reservation for me, and it did—eventually—by opening a cloud-based browser, navigating OpenTable, filling forms and clicking buttons until a reservation appeared. The result is promising: Copilot Actions can perform real web tasks, but the experience...

Visier’s Vee for Microsoft Copilot has been named one of HR Executive’s 2025 Top HR Products, a recognition that reflects how tightly woven people analytics and generative AI are becoming in everyday office workflows. The award highlights a product that embeds Visier’s workforce...

As organizations rush to harness the transformative power of artificial intelligence, concerns over how to secure and govern rapidly multiplying AI agents and copilots have surged to the forefront of enterprise IT priorities. Microsoft, intent on owning the enterprise AI conversation, has made...

CSX, a leading North American railroad company, is reinventing supply chain agility through the strategic adoption of Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure AI Foundry, and an evolving suite of AI-driven technologies embedded within the Microsoft ecosystem. In a logistics landscape increasingly defined...