The Office of Personnel Management has quietly opened the federal doors to mainstream generative AI by making Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and OpenAI’s ChatGPT available to its workforce — a move that follows a string of rapid OneGov procurement deals and the launch of GSA’s USAi sandbox, and that...
The U.S. House of Representatives is reversing course on a high‑profile digital ban and will begin a managed, one‑year pilot to give thousands of House staffers access to Microsoft Copilot — a move framed as institutional modernization but one that raises immediate questions about tenancy...
The U.S. House of Representatives is moving from outright restriction to a controlled, institution-wide pilot of Microsoft Copilot — a shift announced to reporters and unveiled during the Congressional Hackathon — that will give members and staff staged access to Copilot under what the House...
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The U.S. House of Representatives is shifting from prohibition to pilot: members and staff will be offered access to Microsoft Copilot under a managed, government‑scoped rollout announced at the Congressional Hackathon, a move framed by leadership as part of a broader push to modernize...
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The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...
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Firefox’s latest stable update, Firefox 143, pushes two headline features into the hands of users: an AI chat provider shortcut that surfaces Microsoft Copilot inside the browser’s AI sidebar, and a Windows-only web‑app (pinned‑site) workflow that lets you add sites to the taskbar and run them...
Mozilla’s stable channel just received a substantial refresh: Firefox 143 lands with Microsoft Copilot available inside the AI sidebar, experimental Google Lens visual search, Windows taskbar web‑app pinning, and a batch of security fixes that administrators and power users should install right...
Curated for You and Microsoft have quietly flipped a new switch in conversational commerce: as of September 16, 2025, Curated for You’s lifestyle-led merchandising engine is live inside Microsoft Copilot, delivering context-aware, shoppable fashion recommendations in response to natural-language...
Mozilla’s Firefox 143 lands as a pragmatic, Windows‑focused update that finally closes several long‑standing feature gaps while introducing new privacy, accessibility, and media improvements — notably taskbar‑pinned web apps (PWA‑style), Microsoft Copilot in the AI sidebar, camera preview in...
Firefox’s latest release delivers the kind of practical Windows-focused refinements power users have been asking for — and a high-profile AI tie‑in that will keep privacy wonks and enterprise admins debating for weeks.
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Mozilla’s rapid-release cadence means the browser you...
Dutch education and research network SURF’s Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA) of Microsoft 365 Copilot finds persistent privacy and safety gaps that make the service unsuitable for broad use in schools and research institutions — and even after ongoing talks with Microsoft, two of the...
Mozilla’s latest stable build, Firefox 143, lands as a pragmatic — and at times polarizing — update: it brings a sidebar shortcut to Microsoft Copilot and the wider AI-chat ecosystem while doubling down on user-facing privacy controls, accessibility fixes, and platform-specific media and web-app...
USA TODAY's decision to run every Week 1 matchup through Microsoft Copilot produced a tidy, headline-friendly slate of predictions — and a revealing window into how modern large language models reason about sports: they reward established quarterbacks, prize defensive strength and coaching...
Baylor’s Career Center has quietly handed the passenger seat to artificial intelligence — deploying Microsoft Copilot agents to streamline resume building, interview practice and career discovery — and the move raises as many practical benefits as it does governance questions for higher...
The week’s tech headlines read like a cross‑section of modern computing: a runaway indie game launch that briefly overwhelmed multiple digital stores, a conservative Linux distribution shipping long‑sought biometric polish, Mozilla experimenting with AI chatbots in the browser sidebar (now...
Thanks to OpenAI’s early consumer push, the generative AI era that reshaped work life began in plain sight — and business users have kept voting with their keyboards. What started as a viral consumer tool has become a persistent presence inside enterprises, while legacy software vendors and...
Firefox Nightly has quietly added Microsoft Copilot to its sidebar and rolled out early New Tab page widgets — a clear sign that Mozilla is expanding both its AI integrations and its on-page productivity ambitions, all inside the experimental Nightly channel where features are prototyped before...
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...
Mozilla has quietly added Microsoft Copilot to Firefox Nightly’s built‑in AI sidebar, bringing the same Quick Response, Think Deeper and a new “Smart (GPT‑5)” mode that Microsoft uses in Edge — a move that accelerates browser-level AI competition but raises immediate questions about privacy...
Generative AI is rapidly moving from experimental pilots into day‑to‑day HR operations, and Microsoft’s Copilot ecosystem — together with specialist vendors and regional HR platforms — is already being used to automate recruiting, personalize onboarding, and surface people analytics, even as...