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A one‑page memo from the Senate Sergeant‑at‑Arms’ technology office quietly cleared the way for aides to use three mainstream conversational AI assistants — OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Microsoft’s Copilot — on routine, non‑sensitive work inside the U.S. Senate, a shift that tightens...

The Senate’s technology office has quietly but decisively opened the door to generative AI across Capitol Hill: a memorandum from the Senate Sergeant‑at‑Arms’ chief information officer authorizes staff use of major conversational A.I. systems — including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and...

The handful of short stories claiming "the U.S. Senate has approved ChatGPT, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot for government operations" capture a headline-ready idea — but they flatten a careful, conditional rollout into a blanket endorsement that never happened. The accurate, verifiable record...

Cisco’s snapshot from the Amsterdam floor showed what many security teams already suspected: generative AI is woven into everyday workflows, and DNS telemetry is one of the most reliable early-warning signals for both adoption trends and emerging risk. The incident that kicked off the...

Google’s latest Gemini 3.1 Pro has done something that reads like a thought experiment from a developer conference demo: within hours of the model appearing in preview, community testers used a single prompt to generate a fully interactive, browser-based Windows 11–style WebOS — complete with a...

AT&T’s new Connected AI for Manufacturing positions telecom-grade connectivity, edge compute, and domain AI as a single packaged answer to a set of problems that have plagued shop floors for decades: unpredictable downtime, fragmented data, slow incident response, and the stubborn human-machine...

McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski’s off‑hand Instagram reel — in which he calls himself a “supersubscriber to every AI tool out there” and describes using Google’s Gemini (via a consumer image editor called Nano Banana) to stitch his family into a single Christmas‑card photo — is a small...

AI use in Ireland has crossed an unmistakable threshold: what looked like early experimentation in 2023–2024 is now behaving like routine behaviour for a growing slice of the population, and that shift has practical, commercial and policy consequences for technology vendors, marketers and...

Microsoft’s new guidance on threat modeling for AI applications arrives at a moment when enterprises are scrambling to put generative and agentic systems into production — and it does something important: it forces security teams to stop treating AI as “just another component” and start modeling...

McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski’s off‑hand Instagram reel — in which he calls himself a “supersubscriber to every AI tool out there” and describes using Google Gemini and a consumer image editor called Nano Banana to assemble a family Christmas card — is doing more than supplying a personable...

When Seamus Blackley — the engineer who helped convince Microsoft to build the original Xbox — says he expects the console business to be “sunsetted,” it’s not idle contrarianism; it’s a signal worth unpacking. Blackley’s comments, made in a recent interview attributed to GamesBeat and widely...

Dublin’s councillors are quietly confronting a familiar public‑sector dilemma: the workload is rising, budgets and staff headcount are not, and a new generation of generative AI tools — led in this case by Microsoft Copilot — is being floated as a practical shortcut to keep services running and...

Tech companies’ public case that artificial intelligence can fix the climate now faces a sustained and systematic credibility test: a new analysis led by energy analyst Ketan Joshi finds that many of the green claims being used to defend rapidly expanding AI infrastructure are vague, poorly...

The UK government moved decisively this week to plug a legal gap that has let advanced AI chatbots operate outside the protections of the Online Safety Act, promising to bring all chatbots within the same illegal-content duties that already bind social platforms — and to fast‑track a suite of...

The fourth quarter of 2025 produced a clear inflection point for cloud computing: after years of steady growth, the industry reaccelerated as enterprises moved from experimentation to large-scale production of generative AI workloads. All three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft...

Sensor Tower’s latest State of Mobile data shows a crisp, structural shift: generative AI didn’t just reshape app usage in 2025 — it rewired retail media, turning high-intent shopping moments into a new battleground for brand attention and co‑branded advertising. The effect was dramatic...

India’s generative AI market in 2026 looks less like a gentle evolution and more like a full‑force industrial revolution: vast user numbers, aggressive vendor promotions, and a clear split between generalist assistants and narrowly focused specialists that solve real workflow problems. The list...

The University of Pittsburgh has quietly built a broad, institution‑backed toolbox of generative AI services and training aimed at researchers, instructors, and staff — and that progress has exposed the exact paradox universities face in 2026: access and capability are expanding faster than most...

City Colleges of Chicago’s upcoming “AI in 45” workshop promises a compact, practice-oriented briefing for faculty that pairs an AI Enablement framework with hands-on use of Microsoft Copilot and free generative-AI tools—framing adoption explicitly through accessibility (Universal Design for...

Microsoft’s Copilot may be the most visible face of generative AI inside business apps, but the reality on the ground is stark: widespread experimentation has not yet translated into widespread benefit for organisations or users. The latest Computing research of UK IT leaders shows heavy...