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    Unlocking AI for Nonprofits: Free, CPD-Certified Copilot Training in 90-Minute Modules

    NetHope’s new Unlocking AI for Nonprofits program — delivered with support from Microsoft and hosted on the Kaya learning platform — gives frontline nonprofit teams a short, free, CPD‑certified path into practical generative AI skills, with two hands‑on 90‑minute modules that focus on prompt...
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    San Francisco Scales Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat for Citywide Productivity

    San Francisco has quietly pushed one of the largest municipal deployments of generative AI in the United States, rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o—out across tens of thousands of city employees with promises of measurable productivity gains, faster resident service...
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    Windows Intelligence: Microsoft's OS-level AI hub for Windows 11

    Microsoft’s AI ambitions inside Windows have quietly been given a new label: mounting evidence from Insider builds and system files suggests Microsoft is preparing to promote a unified artificial intelligence umbrella called Windows Intelligence, consolidating generative-AI controls, app...
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    Amazon AI Capex: Is AWS Reclaiming Cloud AI Momentum?

    Amazon’s recent pullback has reignited a familiar debate: is Amazon falling behind in the race to monetize generative AI — or is the company quietly laying the groundwork to reclaim momentum? Investor jitters about AWS’s cloud revenue growth and Microsoft’s head start with OpenAI have pressured...
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    Managed Generative AI Adoption in Canadian Universities: Governance and Tools

    Canadian universities are no longer debating whether to engage with generative artificial intelligence — they are designing how to manage it. In the last 18 months a clear pattern has emerged across Canada’s major campuses: centrally provisioned, enterprise-grade AI tools such as Microsoft...
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    Generative AI Essentials: Practical Tools and Ethics for Tri-Cities Businesses

    Washington State University Tri‑Cities is putting a pragmatic foot forward in the region’s AI conversation by offering a hands‑on workshop—“Generative AI Essentials: Workplace Applications and Ethical Use”—that promises to teach local professionals how to use tools such as Microsoft Copilot and...
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    AI for HR: Copilot‑Driven Efficiency, Governance, and Fairness

    The arrival of generative AI and integrated assistants like Microsoft Copilot has turned Human Resources from a back‑office administrative function into a strategic partner — promising faster recruiting, personalized onboarding, smarter people analytics and dramatic time savings, but also...
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    COPILOT in Excel: AI as a native formula for smarter spreadsheets

    Microsoft has quietly folded generative AI into Excel’s calculation engine with a native worksheet function — =COPILOT(...) — that accepts plain‑language prompts, reads cell ranges as context, and returns live, spillable outputs directly into the spreadsheet grid. Early previews show it can...
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    COPILOT in Excel: On-Cell AI Formulas for Live, Grounded Outputs

    Microsoft has pushed generative AI squarely into the heart of Excel with a native =COPILOT(...) formula that lets users type natural‑language prompts directly into cells, reference worksheet ranges for context, and receive live, spillable AI outputs that recalculate automatically as the source...
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    Canada's Universities Embrace Generative AI: Managed Adoption, Governance, and Equity

    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...
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    Australian SMEs Adopt AI Fast but Struggle with Strategy: A Growth Roadmap

    Most Australian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are already using generative AI tools — but more often than not they’re doing so without a coherent plan, leaving businesses exposed to security, cost, and strategic risks while missing opportunities to drive growth and competitive advantage...
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    COPILOT in Excel: AI as a native recalculating formula

    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...
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    Excel Copilot in the Formula Bar: AI Inside Formulas with =COPILOT()

    Microsoft's decision to let Excel call a Copilot directly from the formula bar — the new =COPILOT() function — marks one of the clearest signals yet that generative AI is becoming a native part of everyday productivity tooling rather than an add‑on sitting in a sidebar or separate app. The...
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    Excel COPILOT: AI prompts in cells for dynamic, structured outputs

    Microsoft has put a generative AI assistant where most knowledge workers spend the bulk of their time: directly into Excel’s grid with a new COPILOT function that lets Microsoft 365 Copilot run natural-language prompts inside individual cells and return multi-cell arrays, categories, summaries...
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    MSR India: Bridging Foundational AI Research with India-scale Copilots

    Microsoft Research India is quietly assembling a bridge between foundational generative AI research and pragmatic, India‑scale applications — a hybrid of deep technical work (retrieval, multimodal benchmarks, energy‑efficient deployment) and collaborative, on‑the‑ground projects that target...
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    AI in the Workplace 2025: Copilots, Productivity, Governance & Upskilling

    By 2025, artificial intelligence has moved from the edges of enterprise dreams into the center of the daily work routine, changing not just how tasks are completed but how organizations structure roles, measure value, and define productivity. Background / Overview AI’s penetration into the...
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    Generative AI for Permitting: Accelerating Clean-Energy Approvals

    A Microsoft Garage hackathon prototype has graduated into a commercial workstream that uses generative AI to attack permitting bottlenecks across nuclear, renewable, mining, and grid projects — a practical, high-stakes application of AI that could materially shorten the time and cost of getting...
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    AI Applicability by Occupation: Knowledge Work Most Exposed to GenAI

    Microsoft Research has delivered one of the clearest, most data-driven snapshots yet of how generative AI is starting to reshape the labour market: by analyzing 200,000 anonymized US conversations with Bing Copilot, the team produced an AI applicability score for occupations that quantifies...
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    Generative AI for Permitting: Accelerating Energy Projects with Auditable AI

    A Mission to Bring the Clean Energy Future Subtitle: How a Microsoft Garage hackathon project — now a commercial workstream — is using generative AI to break permitting bottlenecks and accelerate the global energy transition By: WindowsForum Staff Writer Lede: A Microsoft Hackathon prototype...
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    Bria and Microsoft for Startups: Licensed, Developer-First AI on Azure

    Bria’s collaboration with Microsoft for Startups has done more than add a logo to a partner page — it has plugged a responsible, developer-first visual generative AI into Azure’s ecosystem, giving startups a practical path to scale image generation, editing, and brand-safe visual pipelines while...
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