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    Apertus and On-Device AI Spark an Open, Agent-Driven AI Ecosystem

    Switzerland’s bold Apertus release, new compact reasoning models from Nous Research, and a spate of open multilingual and on-device models this week underline a clear trend: AI is moving from closed, cloud‑only monoliths toward a more diverse ecosystem of open, efficient, and task‑specific...
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    Microsoft's AI-Driven Azure and Windows 11: Building the AI Platform and Cloud Flywheel

    Microsoft’s recent narrative — that an AI-first Azure is building an unassailable moat while Windows 11 becomes an “AI platform” — is both materially true and rhetorically optimistic; the data underpinning the claim is strong, but the timeline and some headline figures in the popular bull case...
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    AI Chatbots Repeating Falsehoods 35% of News Replies (Aug 2025 Audit)

    AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle. Background The...
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    Windows 10 End of Support 2025: Upgrades, ESU, and the Open Driver Debate

    With the clock counting down to October 14, 2025, millions of PCs face a stark choice: upgrade to Windows 11, pay for a short-term safety net, or keep running an increasingly risky, unsupported Windows 10—while the debate over hardware compatibility, drivers and sustainability suddenly looks...
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    Mobile AI Assistants Surge: Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT Lead Comscore Growth

    Mobile usage of AI assistants has taken a measurable lead over desktop in recent months, with Comscore reporting mobile reach for AI tools rising to 73.4 million users (a 5.3% increase) while PC usage fell roughly 11.1%, and the largest mobile growth rates concentrated in Microsoft Copilot...
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    From Hype to ROI: Mastering Copilot Adoption at the 365 Leadership Summit

    Generative AI has arrived in the boardroom and the break room alike — but the difference between headlines and hard outcomes is leadership, disciplined execution, and the work of adoption that too many organizations still underestimate. A recent event preview and podcast discussion that...
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    How AI Is Making Companies Sound and Act the Same—and How to Preserve Uniqueness

    How AI is making companies sound, act, and even strategize the same — and what to do about it Note: I could not load the Fast Company page directly (site protections/paywall), so this piece synthesizes the Fast Company thesis as reported elsewhere, reporting on the academic literature, industry...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing Rewrite: Bundled Roles and Usage Credits

    Microsoft’s internal pricing playbook for Copilot appears to be getting a major rewrite that will materially lower the sticker price for many enterprise customers while shifting the company’s long-term monetization toward consumption-based agent billing and a centralized “agent management”...
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    DBT Copilot Evaluation: Text-Task Wins, Small ROI, Governance Risks

    The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot returned a cautious but informative verdict: users reported high satisfaction and clear wins on text‑based tasks, yet the measurable productivity gains were small, use‑case dependent, and offset in places by...
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    Microsoft unveils MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-Preview: Product-driven in-house AI strategy

    Microsoft’s AI unit has publicly launched two in‑house models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — signaling a deliberate shift from purely integrating third‑party frontier models toward building product‑focused models Microsoft can own, tune, and route inside Copilot and Azure. Background...
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    Copilot Agent Diagnostic for Teams: Quick Admin Validation

    Microsoft has quietly added a new diagnostic aimed at keeping Copilot agents working reliably inside Microsoft Teams: the Copilot Agent Functionality Diagnostic — a customer-facing validator now accessible through Microsoft’s diagnostic surfaces and designed to surface licensing, permission, and...
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    Copilot File Actions in Windows Explorer: AI insights for OneDrive files

    Microsoft has quietly moved a major piece of its AI productivity stack out of the browser and into the Windows shell: eligible Microsoft 365 subscribers can now invoke Copilot file actions directly from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center, letting users summarize documents, ask...
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    Zero Trust for GenAI: Guarding Data From EchoLeak and Prompt Attacks

    In January, security researchers at Aim Labs disclosed a zero-click prompt‑injection flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot that demonstrated how a GenAI assistant with broad document access could be tricked into exfiltrating sensitive corporate data without any user interaction—an attack class that...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Arrives in OneDrive for Windows: File Explorer AI Actions

    Microsoft’s push to fold generative AI into everyday file management just moved a major step closer to most Windows users: Microsoft 365’s Copilot is now integrated with OneDrive inside Windows, letting subscribers invoke Copilot actions from File Explorer and the OneDrive Activity Center on the...
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    GPT-5 on Azure Foundry: A Startup Guide to Fast, Cost-Efficient AI Apps

    Microsoft’s message to founders is simple and forward‑looking: GPT‑5 is now part of Azure’s production stack, and Azure AI Foundry packages the model family, routing, safety controls and deployment plumbing startups need to move from experiment to revenue‑grade product quickly. The announcement...
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    Microsoft's Cloud-First Transformation: Azure, Observability, and Platform Engineering

    Microsoft’s internal IT organization has completed one of the most ambitious cloud migrations in corporate history — moving virtually all employee-facing systems into Azure and reshaping how the company thinks about operations, security, and engineering at scale. The transition, driven by...
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    Dataverse vs SQL Server: A Context-Driven Backend Platform Framework

    Microsoft Digital’s Employee Productivity Engineering (EPE) team faced a deceptively simple-sounding question with outsized implications: should we build on Microsoft Dataverse — the low-code data platform native to the Power Platform — or rely on Microsoft SQL Server and its mature relational...
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    WinGet Hacks: Automate Windows provisioning, upgrades, and maintenance

    WinGet has quietly become one of the most practical productivity tools in a Windows 11 power user's toolbox — not just for installing apps, but for managing whole system states, enforcing upgrade policies, and automating maintenance. A recent MakeUseOf piece showed four simple WinGet workflows —...
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    Microsoft MAI-Voice-1 & MAI-1-Preview: In-House AI with Orchestrated Copilot

    Microsoft’s AI unit has shipped two first‑party foundation models — MAI‑Voice‑1 and MAI‑1‑preview — marking a clear acceleration of in‑house model development even as the company continues to integrate and promote OpenAI’s frontier models such as GPT‑5 across its product stack. The launches are...
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    Montréal's 24/7 Public Service Bot Powered by Copilot Studio

    The City of Montréal has quietly turned a classic municipal pain point—finding timely information on services, schedules and rules—into a 24/7 conversational surface by deploying a virtual agent built with Microsoft Copilot Studio that now answers citizen questions across the city’s public...
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