auditability

The past two weeks have cemented a clear regulatory pivot: policy‑makers are trimming the volume of mandatory ESG datapoints while simultaneously demanding stronger, auditable evidence for the datapoints that remain — and supervisors are building operational tooling to make climate risk a...

West Midlands Police’s decision to block Microsoft Copilot after an AI-generated error helped justify a contentious ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans laid bare a painful intersection of operational policing, community trust, and unchecked generative‑AI use—and it should matter to every IT leader and...

Anthropic’s Claude has taken a decisive step deeper into the spreadsheets that run modern businesses: the company has expanded its Excel integration beyond a small enterprise beta and announced broader availability for paying subscribers, while adding practical features that aim to reduce the...

Endex arrives in Excel as an assertive, analyst‑style co‑pilot — able to pull tables out of multi‑page PDFs, clean and standardize messy workbooks, and assemble a full three‑statement DCF model from a single prompt — and it does so at a moment when Microsoft has already begun baking agentic AI...

AI agents are changing how spreadsheets are built, audited and used — but they're not yet ready to be trusted without human oversight. Background / Overview Financial modelling expert Ian Schnoor, drawing on decades of Excel experience, recently laid out a practical, practitioner-focused view of...

Agentic AI is ready to make decisions — and embedded finance can be the safety harness that keeps serious money under control. Background / Overview Agentic AI — assistants that perceive context, plan multi-step actions, and execute transactions across applications and payment rails — is moving...

Anthropic has just pushed Claude into the spreadsheet that underpins modern finance, releasing a limited beta of Claude for Excel, opening direct, auditable AI workflows inside Microsoft Excel while simultaneously wiring Claude to licensed, real‑time market feeds and prebuilt analyst workflows —...

Milliman’s move to Azure high‑performance computing (HPC) has turned a years‑long arms race in actuarial compute into a practical productivity story: what once required days of queuing, orchestration and expensive on‑prem hardware now completes in hours, enabling insurers to meet tighter...

Microsoft has quietly shifted Copilot inside Visual Studio from a prompt-driven assistant into a goal-oriented collaborator by shipping a Planning capability in public preview, giving developers a structured way to manage multi-step, cross-file work and turning ad-hoc prompts into auditable...

Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” a set of Azure cloud and AI subscriptions to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after a high‑profile investigation has forced a reckoning about what commercial cloud providers can — and must — do when sovereign customers appear to use powerful tools...

Workday and Microsoft’s new integration aims to let organisations manage human employees and AI agents from a single, auditable plane — registering Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry agents into Workday’s Agent System of Record (ASOR) and giving each agent a verifiable Microsoft Entra Agent ID...

Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...

The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...

Starting this fall, the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a controlled pilot giving thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot — a marked reversal from a 2024 prohibition — as leadership frames the move as a pragmatic modernization push that must be matched by strict...

The U.S. House of Representatives is moving from restriction to adoption: an Axios exclusive reports that Microsoft’s Copilot AI will be made available to House members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize congressional operations, with Speaker Mike Johnson set to introduce the tool...

Cloud providers’ quiet September previews revealed a pivot: enterprises are no longer satisfied with raw model accuracy alone — they want platforms that deliver security boundaries, governance, and predictable operations so generative AI can safely move into production. Background / Overview...

Cloud providers’ recent September preview releases from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google aren’t incremental feature drops — they’re a clear signal that enterprise expectations for cloud AI have shifted from “which model is best?” to “which platform makes models secure, auditable, and...

Workday and Microsoft have announced a close technical alignment that will let AI “agents”—software entities built in Microsoft’s developer stack—receive directory-backed identities and be managed, governed, and audited inside Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), creating a single plane...

Cloud providers’ September previews are not incremental checkbox updates; they are a clear signal that enterprises expect AI clouds to be more than high‑performance models — they must be secure, auditable, and operationally mature enough to run production workloads at scale. Background...

Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...