governance and audit

  1. Windows Agentic OS: Trust, AI Agents, and the Future of Windows

    Forty years after Windows first shipped to manufacturers on November 20, 1985, Microsoft finds itself at an inflection point: a company-wide push to make Windows an “agentic OS” has reignited old frustrations about reliability, privacy and user control while promising a fundamentally different...
  2. Stop Letting AI Be Your Yes Man: Prompt Disagreement and Show Your Work

    Leigh Coney, a psychology professor–turned–AI consultant, delivers a practical admonition: stop treating large language models like flattering assistants and start prompting them to disagree, probe, and show their work — advice that is as much about cognitive hygiene as it is about prompt...
  3. ProsperOps CloudX Win: Autonomous FinOps for Synchronized Cloud Cost Control

    ProsperOps’s CloudX Award win cements a clear message to the market: FinOps automation has moved from a niche toolkit into mainstream cloud management, and vendors that can safely automate both rate and workload decisions will shape how enterprises control cloud spend going forward. Background /...
  4. Excel Copilot Formula Completion: AI-Powered, Contextual Formulas

    Microsoft’s latest update quietly pulls a dramatic change into Excel’s typing box: AI-driven formula completion that suggests, explains, and can even preview formulas the moment you type “=”, folding natural-language Copilot capabilities into one of the oldest—and most error-prone—workflows in...
  5. California's statewide AI education push: free courses and credentials

    California’s new statewide AI education initiative — a public‑private push that ropes in Google, Microsoft, Adobe, IBM and other major vendors to deliver free AI courses, tools and credentials to millions of learners — marks one of the most ambitious attempts by any U.S. state to fold artificial...
  6. Microsoft Azure under scrutiny: Israel data, external review and cloud ethics

    Microsoft’s president, Brad Smith, told reporters from his office at the Redmond campus that the company will “investigate and get to the truth” after a Guardian-led investigation alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 had used Microsoft Azure to store and process vast troves of intercepted Palestinian...
  7. APIs, AI, and Cloud Power Modern Fund Administration and Fundraising

    The asset‑management tech beat has been busy this week: Hebbia announced an integration with Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry, Anduin unveiled an Engagement Hub aimed at speeding GP fundraising and LP conversion, Alchelyst confirmed it will leverage cloud-native tools (including Finbourne’s stack)...