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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Microsoft’s most recent results and guidance refinement make one fact unmistakable: the company’s future growth is being driven by an Azure‑anchored, AI‑first platform strategy — and that strategy is increasingly capital‑intensive, partnership‑dependent, and subject to both regulatory and...
Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot desktop app on Windows machines that already have Microsoft 365 desktop clients installed, a background rollout slated to start in early October and run into mid‑November 2025 — and while enterprise tenants can opt out, most...
Microsoft has begun rolling out a free, in‑app Copilot Chat experience inside the desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for Microsoft 365 business customers — a strategic shift that embeds a web‑grounded AI assistant directly into the places people do their daily work...
Visionet’s elevation to Star Performer and placement as a Major Contender in Everest Group’s Microsoft Business Applications Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 signals a clear acceleration in the company’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 practice and a broader competitive shift among mid-tier systems...
Microsoft is embedding Copilot Chat directly into the Microsoft 365 desktop apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — as a persistent, content‑aware sidebar that brings AI assistance to the place people actually work, reducing copy/paste, manual uploads, and app switching while...
Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...
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Law firms are racing to adopt artificial intelligence tools—but the move from pilot projects and individual experimentation to firm‑wide, governed production deployments remains the exception rather than the rule, driven less by model capability than by the legal profession’s special duties...
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Law firms are experimenting with artificial intelligence at a rapid clip, but according to recent reporting and industry surveys, widespread, fully governed production deployments remain the exception rather than the rule—a reality shaped less by technical immaturity than by ethical, regulatory...
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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.
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Westpac has begun rolling out Microsoft Copilot Studio across its organisation, giving cross‑functional teams the tools to design, publish and scale generative‑AI agents that can sit inside Microsoft 365, Teams and customer‑facing channels—part of a broader push by the bank to industrialise AI...
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ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure, bringing the company’s continuous, algorithmic commitment-management engine to Azure customers through the Azure Marketplace and promising automated buys, sells, and reshapes of Reservations and...
Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt declaration that machine consciousness is an illusion has refocused a technical debate into an operational warning for product teams, regulators, and everyday Windows users: the immediate danger is not that machines will quietly wake up, but that they will be engineered...
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BlinkOps’ announced integration with Microsoft Sentinel brings a new class of agentic security automation into the Azure ecosystem — available today through the Azure Marketplace and supported by prebuilt content in the Sentinel Content Hub — and that combination has immediate operational...
ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure, a milestone that brings the company’s algorithmic, continuous rate-optimization engine to Azure customers via the Azure Marketplace and promises tighter alignment between commitments and volatile...
AI assistants can — and do — confidently tell strangers that you committed a crime, voted a different way, or hold beliefs you don’t, and when that happens the damage is immediate, hard to correct, and increasingly baked into products people use for hiring, vetting, and decision-making.
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ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure via the Azure Marketplace, bringing the company’s algorithmic commitment‑management engine to Azure compute services and promising automated buys, sells, and portfolio reshaping of Reservations and...
Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on many Windows devices this fall, but the rollout is neither universal nor unstoppable — administrators and privacy-conscious users have documented methods to block installation and disable the feature, and Microsoft...
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Pennsylvania is moving from pilot to purchase order: Governor Josh Shapiro told more than 900 technology, academic and business leaders at the AI Horizons Summit in Pittsburgh that the commonwealth will expand access to advanced generative AI tools for qualified state employees — adding...
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The UK government’s recent trial of AI coding assistants has delivered striking headline figures — developers reporting almost an hour saved per working day, equivalent to roughly 28 working days a year — but the programme also exposes the tough trade‑offs that come with rapid AI adoption in...