governance

When a major UK software vendor set out to accelerate its generational shift into AI, it did something many organisations still talk about but few execute: it put governance first and used it to scale. The Access Group’s Access Evo platform — built on Azure API Management, Azure AI Search and...

Wendy Goldberg’s experience — getting a one‑size‑fits‑all reply from her primary care clinic and finding a specific, actionable protein target from ChatGPT within seconds — captures a turning point in U.S. health behavior: when the health system feels slow, impersonal or inaccessible, many...

Excel can be brilliant — and brutally tedious — and the new generation of AI-for-Excel tools promises to turn hours of spreadsheet drudgery into minutes of insight and automation, but that promise comes with trade-offs: licensing, security, and the need for human validation. Background Excel...

Valve’s new Steam Machine landing in the living room — a compact, SteamOS‑first mini‑PC that promises a plug‑and‑play console feel while keeping the openness of a PC — has sparked a serious reappraisal of whether Windows 11 can remain the default platform for mainstream PC gaming. Background /...

Netgain’s new AI Enablement Services put practical, role‑focused AI adoption within reach for mid‑market accounting firms, combining a six‑session Foundations Bootcamp, a 12–18 month strategic roadmap, and targeted pilot blueprints designed to move firms from experimentation to operational...

Every professional services engagement collapses or thrives on one thing: clean, persistent context — and Microsoft Teams is rapidly being positioned as the operating layer that keeps that context intact from pitch to delivery. The UC Today feature lays out how consultancies, law firms, and...

The inflection point for Microsoft-centric application management is here: agentic AI offers CIOs a path from reactive, ticket-driven Application Management Services (AMS) to a continuously learning, self‑optimizing operations fabric — but delivering on that promise requires deliberate pilots...

Australia’s head of national security quietly used a generative AI chatbot to draft speeches and internal communications while the federal government simultaneously launched a sweeping “whole-of-government” AI plan that will push tools like Microsoft Copilot and a purpose-built GovAI assistant...

Microsoft’s next act in enterprise AI is no longer a distant thought experiment — it’s arriving as a packaged runtime, identity model, and marketplace for software entities that behave like employees, and the implications for IT, security, and licensing are profound and immediate. The company’s...

Microsoft Teams is no longer just a meeting and chat app — it has become a strategic collaboration platform that can deliver measurable ROI, but only when adoption is managed as continuous change rather than a one‑time IT rollout. The latest industry playbook stresses measurable pilots...

In a vivid example of automation run amok, an HR team’s test of an offboarding automation tool accidentally dispatched a blunt “You’re fired” style termination notice to the entire company — including the CEO — triggering minutes of panic across Slack, an all‑hands scramble by IT, and a viral...

The Web3 Summit in Berlin closed with a flurry of technical milestones and provocative economic proposals that together signal a decisive pivot for Polkadot: move DOT from a passive staking instrument into the active fuel of an on‑chain economy, while simultaneously delivering the production...

The Web3 Summit in Berlin closed with more than the usual post-conference energy: Polkadot’s ecosystem surfaced a sequence of technical milestones, ambitious economic proposals and tangible product news that together sketch a clear strategic pivot — from “token-first” narratives toward an...

Infosys has unveiled a domain‑specific AI Agent for the energy industry that combines the company’s Topaz agent fabric and Infosys Cobalt cloud blueprints with Microsoft’s Copilot Studio and Azure OpenAI Foundry-hosted models (including GPT‑family multimodal models) to deliver conversational...

Short, sharp, and uncomfortably useful: a recent hands‑on review found that only three free AI chatbots reliably handled a set of practical coding challenges in 2025 — Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot Free, ChatGPT Free, and China’s controversial DeepSeek — while five other well‑known free chatbots...

The image of masked men riding scooters away from the Musée du Louvre with jewel-encrusted relics is the cinematic part — the deeper, more unsettling story is the discovery that auditors once accessed the museum’s video‑surveillance server using the password “LOUVRE,” a finding that reframes the...

Anthropic’s Claude has quietly moved from a research chat assistant into the spreadsheet at the center of corporate finance, with a beta “Claude for Excel” add‑in that places a Claude sidebar inside Microsoft Excel and positions the startup as a direct challenger to Microsoft’s Copilot in...

The legal function’s path from curiosity to disciplined experimentation with generative AI no longer depends on hope or hype — it depends on a repeatable operating model. Law360’s “5 Steps for GCs to Drive Generative AI Experimentation” lays out a pragmatic sequence for general counsel and legal...

Seriun’s sell-out “Foundations for AI Success” at Crow Wood Hotel signalled a pragmatic, region-first approach to AI adoption that put governance, culture and stepwise pilots ahead of hype — and it offered Lancashire businesses a clear playbook for turning curiosity about generative AI into...

For more than a year many office meetings have acquired a third occupant: an always-listening assistant that records, transcribes, summarizes and even drafts the follow-up — and a harmless pre-meeting chat about dahlias can become a searchable action list that lives forever. Background: agentic...