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The South Canterbury business community will get a hands‑on primer in practical AI next month when AI strategist and educator Justin Flitter leads a one‑day master class in Timaru on March 4, a workshop the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce says is aimed at helping local owners, managers and...

Connecticut’s accounting shops are neither waiting for a distant future nor clinging to spreadsheets as a ceremonial relic — they’re actively baking generative AI into the work that once defined the profession’s daily grind. Across the state, firms large and small report using AI for routine...

CMS has rolled out Harvey AI to more than 7,000 lawyers across its global network, in a move that crystallizes how generative AI has shifted from pilot projects to firmwide infrastructure in Big Law — and raises urgent questions about measurement, governance, and professional risk as...

Bosses across industries are quietly turning to a familiar management lever—cash—to get wary employees to use generative AI, rolling out bonus pools, spot cash awards, and small prize schemes tied to measurable actions like Copilot prompts as a short‑term tactic to overcome resistance, measure...

November’s Excel update is small in count but large in implication: Microsoft shipped a concise set of features that push agentic AI workflows deeper into the desktop app, modernize data onboarding, and polish mobile UX — while raising fresh governance and operational questions for IT and power...

Microsoft is betting that AI agents — autonomous, collaborative “digital colleagues” that reason, act, and orchestrate workflows — are the next wave of enterprise innovation, and it’s backing that claim with customer stories, research, and new product pushes across Copilot Studio, Azure AI...

OpenAI’s decision to make ChatGPT “Projects” available to free users is a small-but-significant turning point in how firms and knowledge workers organise AI-driven work — but it arrives at a moment when a growing body of research suggests that generative AI is not the simple, across‑the‑board...

More than a third of New Zealand retail investors now say they use generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot to inform their investment decisions — and a large majority report being satisfied with the outcomes — a shift that is simultaneously pragmatic and precarious for markets...

Microsoft’s decision to terminate multiple employees after an on‑campus sit‑in over alleged uses of Azure in Israeli military intelligence operations has turned a workplace protest into a major corporate governance and technology‑ethics crisis for the company — one that raises urgent questions...

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...

The Web3 infrastructure story that has been quietly brewing for years reached a new inflection point this cycle: large cloud providers are no longer passive hosts for blockchain experiments — they are active strategic partners, builders, and gatekeepers whose technical choices and compliance...