Microsoft this week expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal productivity assistant into a suite of context‑aware team agents that live inside Teams channels, SharePoint sites, Viva Engage communities, and meetings — agents that can prepare agendas, take notes, manage projects, tag and...
Windows 11 Insiders are now seeing a new, unexpected entry in the parade of Copilot entry points: a floating “Share with Copilot” button that appears when you hover over an open app on the taskbar and use the window preview. The button launches Copilot Vision against the contents of that window...
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Microsoft has quietly pushed a new Insider preview package — KB5065786 — that surfaces a focused set of account-management refinements alongside deeper Copilot integrations and a long list of fixes and known issues, delivered as Build 26220.6690 to the Dev Channel and Build 26120.6690 to the...
A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...
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The Office of Personnel Management has quietly opened the federal doors to mainstream generative AI by making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and OpenAI’s ChatGPT available to its workforce — a move that follows a string of rapid OneGov procurement deals and the launch of GSA’s USAi sandbox, and that...
Microsoft’s latest push to plant Copilot into every corner of Teams marks a decisive shift: AI is moving from a personal “assistant” to a collaborative, agent-driven layer that lives inside meetings, channels, SharePoint workspaces, and Viva Engage communities. The company announced new...
A new Principled Technologies (PT) study—distributed as a press release via EIN Presswire and reported on partner channels—claims that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can deliver measurable benefits in performance, manageability, and cost for enterprise AI projects...
Microsoft is expanding the reach of AI inside Teams with a public preview of Project Manager agent skills that aim to turn meeting chatter and channel conversations into tracked, actionable work — but the feature brings licensing, governance, and operational caveats that IT teams must weigh...
Cluster Reply and Riverty this week unveiled an accelerated, Microsoft-backed omnichannel customer service platform that Riverty says was built as an AI‑first, human‑centric solution and delivered in just 100 days—a production deployment that consolidates voice, chat and email into a single...
Cluster Reply and Riverty this week unveiled a fast-tracked, Microsoft-backed omnichannel customer service platform that Riverty says was delivered in just 100 days and built to be AI-first while keeping human empathy at its core. The rollout consolidates voice, chat and email into a single...
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Eliezer Yudkowsky’s call for an outright, legally enforced shutdown of advanced AI systems — framed in his new book and repeated in interviews — has reignited a fraught debate that stretches from academic alignment labs to the product teams shipping copilots on Windows desktops; the argument is...
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Demis Hassabis’s warning lands like a wake-up call: as artificial intelligence advances toward the kind of general, agentic systems researchers call AGI, the very same attention-harvesting dynamics that turned social media into a global amplifying lens for addiction, outrage, and polarization...
AI upskilling has moved from an HR talking point to a workplace imperative as employees across industries race to learn generative AI tools, enterprise copilots, and the human skills needed to use them responsibly.
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Omnissa’s message at Omnissa ONE 2025 was unmistakable: after the spin‑out from the VMware era, the company has sharpened its narrative around consolidation, choice, and pragmatic automation — and it’s laying out a product roadmap intended to turn that rhetoric into concrete operational value...
Microsoft’s latest push turns Teams into a hybrid workspace where AI is not just an assistant but a teammate — a suite of specialized, context-aware agents is being rolled into Microsoft 365 Copilot to run meetings, summarize channels, and act as an on-call community expert across Viva Engage...
Bonfy.AI’s latest update to its Adaptive Content Security platform lands squarely in the intersection of AI adoption and enterprise security, expanding native integrations across Microsoft 365 and positioning an AI-first approach to Data Loss Prevention that specifically targets risks introduced...
The conversation around artificial intelligence and work has moved from abstract speculation to hard-edged debate — and a recent poll-driven piece on Windows Central captures that anxiety in stark terms while pointing to concrete research showing which roles are already feeling pressure...
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Work is changing shape: Microsoft is shifting Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal assistant into a set of collaboration-first agents that live inside Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage — effectively giving every team, meeting, project, and community an AI teammate that acts on shared context...
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Anthropic’s latest public dataset and a fresh wave of industry reporting make one thing uncomfortably clear: artificial intelligence is not drifting into the mainstream — it’s charging in, and its adoption pattern is already reshaping who benefits and who lags behind. The company’s September 15...
LSEG’s new Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), built in partnership with Microsoft and running on Microsoft Azure, has officially launched for private funds — and the platform has already facilitated its first tokenised fundraise, marking a major step toward mainstreaming tokenization across...