generative ai

Michigan State University’s student-run AI Club has become a surprising — and instructive — bellwether for how tomorrow’s workforce is learning to live with generative artificial intelligence: enthusiastic about the tools, pragmatic about the limits, and deliberate about teaching both techniques...

Wesfarmers’ new multi‑year strategic partnership with Microsoft is a striking example of how a large, diversified retail conglomerate intends to turn generative AI and cloud-first engineering into measurable competitive advantage across operations, stores and supply chains. The agreement — which...

When a local newsroom asked Microsoft Copilot to write a 300‑word Valentine to Indianapolis, the result landed like a carefully folded letter: warm, specific, and — as IndyStar put it — “steady, genuine and quietly confident.” That short experiment is more than a charming aside for Valentine’s...

Pead’s new Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) service reframes a familiar battle for visibility: instead of chasing clicks, brands must now shape the precise sentences that AI assistants hand to customers and stakeholders when asked about them. rative AI has changed the interface between...

Pead’s new service for Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) marks a clear pivot in corporate communications: instead of chasing clicks and links, brands must now shape the sentences that AI systems hand to customers and stakeholders when asked about them. This Auckland-based agency’s offering —...

If you’re tired of Outlook’s clutter or Thunderbird’s quirks, eM Client is the polished, feature-rich alternative many power users are switching to — a modern desktop client that blends a clean interface, deep productivity tools, and optional generative AI without pretending the cloud erased the...

The software sector’s calm has been punctured: a flurry of analyst downgrades, a bruising market reaction to otherwise-strong earnings, and fresh narrative momentum behind rival AI providers have combined to create a genuine near-term threat to incumbents—most visibly Microsoft—forcing IT...

Amazon quietly rewrote the rules for its voice assistant: Alexa+ (branded Alexa Plus) is now a cross‑surface, generative‑AI assistant available to Prime members at no extra cost and to non‑Prime users for $19.99 per month, and Amazon says the upgrade will reach a very broad set of existing Echo...

Mozilla will let you flip a single switch and remove generative AI from your browsing experience: starting with Firefox 148, due to roll out on February 24, 2026, a new “AI controls” section puts a master “Block AI enhancements” toggle alongside per-feature switches so users can either opt into...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot push reads like a strategic full-court press: bake generative AI into the OS, the productivity suite, and the browser, make it the default experience for millions of users, and tie that integration back to a multi‑billion‑dollar relationship with OpenAI. But the...

Mozilla’s plan to make Firefox a “modern AI browser” just got a safety valve: beginning with Firefox 148, rolling out on February 24, 2026, the desktop browser will include a new AI controls section in Settings with a single master toggle labeled “Block AI enhancements.” Flip that toggle and...

Mozilla is giving users an unmistakable way to decide how much — or how little — generative AI should touch their browsing: starting with Firefox 148, rolling out on February 24, 2026, the desktop browser adds a dedicated AI Controls section in Settings with a master “Block AI enhancements”...

Mozilla’s latest answer to “AI everywhere” is a clear, user‑facing off‑switch: beginning with Firefox 148 (rolling out February 24, 2026), the browser adds an AI Controls page that includes a single Block AI enhancements master toggle plus granular per‑feature controls so users can disable all...

Mozilla has given users a one-click way to tell the AI revolution to stay out of their browser: starting with Firefox 148, rolling out February 24, the desktop browser adds an AI Controls panel with a single “Block AI enhancements” master switch that disables current and future generative AI...

By 2026 the question for executives is no longer whether generative AI will matter to their business — it’s whether they will be among the small minority that capture disproportionate value from it. StartUs Insights’ decision-making guide lays out a practical, use-case‑led road map: GenAI is...

Michael Parekh’s latest AI dispatch, RTZ #983, reads like a field guide to the current inflection points in generative AI: productization of assistant features, a rapid push toward believable synthetic video, platform UX shifts that make AI the primary interface, and the governance questions...

The Game Developers Conference’s latest State of the Game Industry survey has produced an unmistakable headline: more than half of respondents now believe generative AI is doing harm to the games industry. The survey, which collected responses from roughly 2,300 industry professionals, reports...

Singapore’s demand for AI-related skills has surged so sharply that SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG) reports it has more than doubled across sectors between 2022 and 2025 — a shift driven most rapidly by generative AI capabilities and accompanied by a finding that roughly one in four work tasks can...

Penn State’s IT Learning and Development team has quietly opened the doors to a practical, hands-on AI enablement program aimed at moving faculty and staff beyond curiosity and toward everyday use of generative assistants — starting with Microsoft Copilot. The AI Guides Program entered a soft...

The Department of Homeland Security has quietly added commercial AI video-generation tools from Google and Adobe to the list of software it uses to produce public-facing content — a revelation that raises immediate questions about government use of generative AI, content provenance, and the risk...