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    Choosing the Right AI Presentation Tool: Twistly, Copilot, Gamma & More

    AI presentation tools are finally good enough to be genuinely useful—but the right pick depends on whether you need seamless PowerPoint integration, fast template-driven output, team collaboration, or tight control over data visualization and compliance. Background / Overview The last two years...
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    ProsperOps CloudX Award Highlights Autonomous FinOps and Scheduling

    ProsperOps’s announcement that it won a 2025 CloudX Award in the Cloud Management category underscores how FinOps automation has moved from niche optimization tooling into the mainstream cloud infrastructure conversation, but the recognition also raises important questions about claims...
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    Microsoft-OpenAI MOU Reshapes Frontier AI with Multi-Cloud Strategy

    The long-running honeymoon between Microsoft and OpenAI has entered a new, more transactional phase: the two companies have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that lays out a revised partnership framework while OpenAI pursues a controversial restructure that hands a very...
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    Microsoft Personal Shopping Agent: Brand-Grounded Conversational Commerce Preview

    Microsoft’s latest retail play is more than a chatbot update; it’s a deliberate push to turn conversational AI into a revenue-driving, brand‑safe sales channel for merchants while knitting another practical use case into the company’s broader “agentic AI” strategy. The Personal Shopping Agent —...
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    Microsoft Builds In-House AI Compute: MAI Models, Chip Clusters, and OpenAI MOU

    Microsoft’s internal AI strategy has entered a new phase: after years of leaning on OpenAI for frontier models and privileged cloud access, the company is investing to build its own large-scale compute — including a dedicated AI chip cluster and first-party foundation models — as part of a...
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    Microsoft MAI-Voice-1 Brings Native, Expressive Audio to Copilot Labs

    Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a significant step toward turning text prompts into fully produced audio, introducing native speech generation powered by Microsoft AI’s new MAI-Voice-1 model and exposed today to users through Copilot Labs’ audio modes. The capability converts scripts into...
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    AuditDashboard 8.0: AI-ready audit workflows with Microsoft 365 and Copilot integration

    AuditDashboard’s Version 8.0 arrives as a major platform milestone, delivering deeper Microsoft 365 integrations — including in‑browser Office previews and direct access to Microsoft Copilot — alongside a rebuilt architecture and expanded API surface that together aim to make PBC workflows...
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    Agentic Collaboration in Teams: AI Agents, Copilot Studio, and SharePoint for Enterprise

    Microsoft’s internal account of how Teams has evolved into an AI-first collaboration platform reads less like a product update and more like a blueprint for how large organizations will work in the next decade: Teams as the connective tissue, AI agents as the operational workforce, and Copilot...
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    Microsoft's AI‑First Pivot: Layoffs, RTO, and Rebuilding Trust

    Satya Nadella’s blunt admission — “we can do better, and we will do better” — landed in the middle of a turbulent week for Microsoft, one in which leadership is publicly reinforcing an “AI‑first” execution tempo even as tens of thousands of employees and broad swathes of the tech press ask...
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    Azure Service Groups Preview: Cross-Subscription Visibility for Observability

    Microsoft has opened public preview for Azure Service Groups, a tenant-level abstraction that lets organizations create flexible, cross‑subscription groupings of resources for visibility, observability, and lightweight management without changing RBAC or policy inheritance across the resource...
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    Microsoft Copilot Goes Multi-Model: Claude Sonnet 4 via AWS Bedrock in Office

    Microsoft has quietly begun a major pivot in the architecture that powers the AI features inside Office apps: Copilot will now route select workloads to Anthropic’s Claude family — notably the Sonnet 4 models — while continuing to use OpenAI models and Microsoft’s own engines where they remain...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Bundles Sales, Service, Finance; Launches Agent Store

    Microsoft’s enterprise Copilot strategy takes a clear step toward simplification and scale: starting in October, role‑based Copilots for Sales, Service, and Finance will be folded into the core Microsoft 365 Copilot experience and made broadly available through the new Copilot Agent Store — and...
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    AI Training Data and Copyright: Platforms Ban Scraping Yet Train on It

    Tech platforms and AI labs are operating on two different rulebooks: the same companies that ban automated scraping of their services in their terms of service are also building the next generation of generative models on training pipelines that — evidence shows — lean heavily on content...
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    Wyden Asks FTC to Probe Microsoft Over Default Security After Ascension Ransomware

    Microsoft’s cybersecurity posture is under renewed fire after U.S. Senator Ron Wyden urged the Federal Trade Commission to open a formal investigation into the company’s default security settings, arguing that Microsoft shipped “dangerous, insecure software” that materially enabled a 2024...
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    Microsoft AI Agents: 12 Hands-On Lessons to Build Production-Ready Agents

    Microsoft’s free, 12-lesson GitHub course on building AI agents offers a practical, hands-on primer that packages Microsoft tooling, agent design patterns, and runnable code into a single, modular learning path—making it one of the most accessible entry points for developers and IT professionals...
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    Windows 11 KB5065426 Patch Tuesday: Copilot+ on-device AI, UI polish, and privacy controls

    Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday brings a substantial, feature‑heavy cumulative update to Windows 11—KB5065426—delivering a mix of visible UI polish, staged Copilot+ AI capabilities, privacy controls for on‑device generative features, and a set of bug and security fixes that administrators...
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    Microsoft Copilot: The AI OS for Enterprise with Foundry and Agents

    Microsoft’s message at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference was unambiguous: the company sees Copilot — and the broader Copilot/Foundry/agent stack — as the hinge that will turn today’s productivity applications into the operating system for the AI era, but the path from...
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    Point B Named Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure) with Analytics on Azure Specialization

    Point B’s announcement that it has been named a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure) and awarded the Analytics on Microsoft Azure specialization marks a purposeful deepening of the firm’s cloud analytics practice—and it arrives at a moment when Microsoft’s partner credentials carry...
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    Capita's Copilot Studio: Agentic AI Driving Enterprise Productivity at Scale

    Capita’s fast-moving push to embed Microsoft Copilot agents into everyday operations is moving beyond pilot projects into live, measurable service transformation — cutting email response times, automating high-volume tasks, and wiring AI-driven “agents” into end-to-end processes for clients and...
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    Power Platform for Social Housing: Real-time AI, CoE, and Live Analytics

    Crimson’s briefing for Housing Digital makes a persuasive case that social housing providers who have already adopted Microsoft Power Platform can—and should—move well beyond simple forms and automations to deliver measurable, tenant-centred improvements across repairs, tenancy management...
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