Microsoft has opened a formal inquiry after fresh reports allege that Israel’s elite intelligence unit used Microsoft Azure to store and analyse vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications, raising urgent questions about cloud governance, corporate responsibility, and the role of big...
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Microsoft’s Azure cloud has become the focal point of a landmark investigation that alleges Israel’s elite signals-intelligence unit, Unit 8200, migrated massive volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications into a bespoke, segregated Azure environment—creating an AI-assisted, cloud-backed...
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The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has quietly but deliberately escalated a long-running policy debate: can India build its own global-calibre advisory giants to challenge the entrenched dominance of the international Big Four — Deloitte, PwC, EY and KPMG — and, if so, what structural reforms are...
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President Donald Trump's recent executive order aims to eliminate "woke" artificial intelligence (AI) from federal government use, mandating that AI systems procured by federal agencies adhere to principles of truth-seeking and ideological neutrality. (whitehouse.gov) This directive has sparked...
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