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Balfour Beatty’s decision to commit £7.2 million to Microsoft 365 Copilot is a pivotal moment for AI in construction — and its CIO, Jon Ozanne, is blunt about what will separate winners from laggards: the organizations that will thrive are those where HR and IT work in lockstep. Background /...

Microsoft and Cerence’s announcement at IAA Mobility 2025 that a voice-first, Microsoft 365 Copilot–powered assistant will run inside vehicles marks a decisive push to turn the car into a secure mobile office — but it also raises urgent questions about safety, privacy, enterprise governance, and...

Satya Nadella’s short thread on X showing five ChatGPT-5 prompts has done more than spark social-media conversation — it offers a practical blueprint for how Microsoft expects Copilot to reshape executive workflows, compress decision cycles, and push generative AI from “drafting tool” to a...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows 11 is shedding its “chat-first” skin and opening a new, dashboard-style Home tab that behaves less like a conversational window and more like an AI-centric Start menu — surfacing recent files, apps, conversations, and guided help in one place. Background Microsoft...

Microsoft’s Copilot is getting quietly practical: you can now turn a Word document into a ready-to-edit PowerPoint slide in seconds — and for anyone still running Windows 10 there’s a second, much louder message: upgrade planning is no longer optional. This dual moment — an incremental but...

Microsoft’s work to move Copilot and Azure AI out of the office and into the vehicle cabin has taken a concrete step through an expanded relationship with Cerence — a partnership that stitches together in‑car voice assistants, Azure OpenAI capabilities, and the emerging third‑party agent...

Firefox Nightly users can now summon Microsoft Copilot from the browser sidebar — an optional, opt‑in hook that exposes Copilot’s chat, voice and summarization capabilities inside Firefox while reopening a broader debate about privacy, platform boundaries, and the creeping normalization of...

Microsoft’s Copilot has evolved from a curious chatbot experiment into a sprawling, multi-surface productivity platform that now sits in Windows, Edge, mobile apps, Microsoft 365 and Azure tooling — and its capabilities span conversational drafting, multimodal image and audio generation, in‑app...

Penn State this week announced a focused, weeklong professional-development push — Learning Tools for Teaching: Explore, Engage, Elevate — that brings campus-supported learning platforms into one place for hands-on demonstrations, pedagogical conversation, and practical workshops designed for...

Microsoft is giving eligible U.S. college students a free, full 12‑month subscription to Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot built in — a time‑limited offer that bundles Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, 1 TB of OneDrive storage and Microsoft’s generative AI assistant into students’...

Pairing Google’s NotebookLM with Microsoft Copilot as a single, unified research-to-creation pipeline can transform a clumsy, multi‑tab workflow into a fast, controllable content engine — a practical approach that shifts the hard work from juggling windows to orchestrating tools. Overview The...

Samsung’s Vision AI Companion arrived at IFA 2025 as a deliberate pivot: a unified, multi‑agent AI hub for smart displays that folds on‑device vision features and third‑party conversational agents into a single, remote‑invoked experience designed for the living room and home office alike. The...

Artificial intelligence has gone from boardroom buzzword to an urgent operational question: executives know AI matters, but too many organisations are frozen at the starting line — unsure how to prioritise use cases, estimate costs, or keep data and compliance under control. Chris Badenhorst of...

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...

The White House’s latest tech summit ended not with a policy white paper but with a photograph: senior executives from Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, Apple and other Silicon Valley heavyweights gathered at a dinner hosted by First Lady Melania Trump to endorse a national AI education push, pledge...

Artificial-intelligence forecasts from multiple platforms lined up behind the Philadelphia Eagles ahead of the NFL’s Week 1 Thursday night opener — and while the models overestimated the margin, they correctly picked the winner as the Eagles edged the Cowboys 24–20 at Lincoln Financial Field...

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...

President Trump’s Rose Garden dinner with a who’s‑who of Silicon Valley on September 4, 2025 crystallized a new chapter in industry‑government relations: tech executives publicly pledged vast U.S. investments and education initiatives while pressing for lighter regulatory touch on artificial...

Balfour Beatty is taking its AI ambitions stateside with an employee hackathon aimed at translating prototypes into construction-ready AI tools — but the most consequential news in this story is the scale of the firm's Microsoft partnership and its strategic investment in Microsoft 365 Copilot...

Silicon Valley’s top executives converged at the White House on September 4, 2025, to publicly endorse the First Lady’s AI education initiative — a high-profile meeting that fused corporate pledges, government policy ambitions, and the politics of technology into a single, consequential moment...