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    US House Reverses Copilot Ban, Launches 6,000 Licenses Pilot for Staff

    The U.S. House of Representatives has quietly — but decisively — reversed last year’s prohibition on Microsoft’s Copilot AI for congressional staffers, launching a controlled pilot that will provide up to 6,000 licenses for Microsoft 365 Copilot and make a lighter-weight Copilot Chat available...
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    AKS Automatic: Production-Ready Kubernetes with Less Operational Burden

    Microsoft’s AKS Automatic is the kind of product that reads like a direct answer to a single question enterprises have been asking for years: how do we keep Kubernetes’ benefits without paying an ever‑rising Kubernetes tax in staff, time, and outages? Background Kubernetes is the default runtime...
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    Workday and Microsoft Launch Agent System of Record for AI Agents

    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...
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    MinterEllison’s AI Leap: Copilot in Daily Law Firm Work

    Virginia Briggs, chief executive of Australia’s MinterEllison, says she uses Microsoft 365 Copilot “for every task, every day,” and the firm’s experience — from boardroom demos to bespoke legal drafting tools — offers an early, high‑profile case study of what enterprise generative AI looks like...
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    House Adopts Microsoft Copilot: A Governance-Driven AI Rollout for Congress

    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...
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    House Pilots Microsoft Copilot for Staff: AI Modernization with Security and Governance

    House leaders announced this week that the U.S. House of Representatives will begin a controlled rollout of Microsoft Copilot to congressional staffers, marking a sharp policy reversal from the chamber’s 2024 prohibition and launching a one‑year pilot that will place Copilot‑powered tools inside...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Goes Free in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook & OneNote

    Microsoft’s move to embed a free, in‑app Copilot Chat across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote marks a turning point: conversational AI is no longer an optional plugin for a few power users, it’s being positioned as a default productivity layer for Microsoft 365 business customers...
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    IRIS Foundry in Teams & Copilot: Industrial AI in the Flow of Work

    SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry is now available inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing conversational, actionable industrial intelligence directly into the collaboration surface used by frontline operators and engineers — a move that promises to reduce context switching...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Expands Role-Based AI for Sales, Service, Finance

    Microsoft’s latest Copilot wave tightens two threads that have run through its product roadmap all year: push AI into everyday work for specific job roles, and make it easier for developers and IT teams to build, test, govern, and connect those assistants to the systems that power enterprise...
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    Australian SMBs Rush to Generative AI: Security Risks & Governance

    Australian small and medium businesses are sprinting to adopt generative AI — often by pasting confidential company data into free consumer tools — and that rush is creating a clear, demonstrable security and compliance gap that needs urgent remediation. Background / Overview The latest...
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    KPMG Joins Microsoft AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025-2026

    KPMG’s ascent into Microsoft’s AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025–2026 confirms what clients and partners have already suspected: the Big Four firm has cemented its role as one of the most influential system integrators shaping how enterprise AI is delivered on the Microsoft stack. This...
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    Windows 11 Insider Sept 2025: On-device AI, Copilot+ UI Upgrades

    Microsoft’s Windows 11 Insider previews for early September 2025 widen the operating system’s AI footprint and polish long‑standing UI rough edges, but they also underline the strategic tradeoffs Microsoft is making as AI features move deeper into the OS: more convenience and on‑device...
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    Cloud AI Production: Perimeter Security, Governance, and Open-Model Deployment

    Cloud providers’ quiet September preview windows have turned into a loud signal to enterprise IT: the next phase of cloud AI isn’t just about model accuracy — it’s about network isolation, governance, flexible deployment, and measurable quality controls that let generative AI move safely from...
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    Copilot Memory and Google Drive Connectors: Microsoft’s Personal AI Evolves

    Microsoft’s consumer Copilot is quietly evolving into a more ChatGPT‑like assistant — one that can remember user preferences and access third‑party files — with a new memory management toggle and the promise of Google Drive as a connected data source for the assistant. Background / Overview...
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    ProsperOps ADM for Azure GA: Autonomous Discount Management to Maximize Savings

    ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure, bringing the company’s continuous, algorithmic commitment‑management engine to Azure customers via the Azure Marketplace and promising automated buys, sells, and portfolio reshaping of reservations...
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    September Cloud AI Previews: Production‑Ready Enterprise AI with Governance

    September’s quiet preview windows at the major cloud providers are shaping up to be one of the clearest signals yet that enterprise AI is moving from model-first experimentation into regulated, operational production—and the changes being previewed are less about raw model accuracy and more...
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    Google Labs Windows App: Floating Spotlight Search with Lens & AI

    Google’s experimental Windows app aims to remove the friction of switching windows to look something up — a floating, Spotlight‑like search bar you summon with Alt + Space that can search local files, installed apps, Google Drive, and the web, and that folds in Google Lens and the company’s AI...
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    Enterprise Cloud AI in Sept Preview: Security, Auditability, Production-Ready Platforms

    Cloud providers’ September previews from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google offer a powerful — and practical — glimpse of how enterprise expectations are reshaping cloud AI: companies are no longer buying raw model performance alone, they are demanding network isolation, auditability...
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    IRIS Foundry in Teams and Copilot via MCP: Industrial AI in the Flow of Work

    SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry now appears directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move industrial AI from dashboards and backrooms into the daily workflows of plant operators and frontline teams—using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect OT data, AI reasoning...
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    Visier Vee for Microsoft Copilot: Top HR Product Brings People Analytics to Office

    Visier’s Vee has been named a Top HR Product of the Year by Human Resource Executive, a recognition that crystallizes how people analytics and generative AI are moving from dashboards into the everyday flow of work—now embedded inside Microsoft 365 Copilot to bring workforce intelligence...
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