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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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...
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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...
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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...
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Microsoft’s latest education push folds generative AI into the everyday toolkit of U.S. college students by making Microsoft 365 Personal with Copilot available free for eligible students—an aggressive expansion of earlier trial offers that places Copilot, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...
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Google and Microsoft have built two very different — and increasingly capable — AI companions, and choosing between Gemini and Copilot now means weighing ecosystem fit, multimodal power, privacy defaults, and pricing structure rather than just raw “intelligence.” The battlefield has shifted from...
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Microsoft appears to be quietly reworking how it charges businesses for Copilot — moving role-based Copilots for Sales, Service, and Finance into the core Microsoft 365 Copilot offering, reorganizing teams around an “agent-native” strategy, and shifting how custom agents are metered. If...
Samsung’s Vision AI Companion converts the television from a passive entertainment appliance into an active, conversational hub that can identify what’s on screen, translate dialogue in real time, tune picture and sound, and surface cloud‑backed generative answers and third‑party agents — all...
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Microsoft's new OneGov arrangement with the General Services Administration (GSA) hands federal agencies a fast lane into the AI era: Microsoft 365 Copilot will be offered at no cost for an initial period to qualifying government customers, while steep, government‑wide discounts across Azure...
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Samsung’s 2025 TV and Smart Monitor lineup will ship with Microsoft Copilot built into the on‑screen experience, turning the living room’s biggest displays into voice‑first, conversational companions that speak aloud, show distance‑legible visual cards, and appear as an animated on‑screen...
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The Department for Business and Trade’s short trial of Microsoft Copilot returned a familiar, measured verdict: staff rated the assistant useful and often satisfying, but the practical productivity gains were modest, uneven, and dependent on use case — and the evaluation stopped short of...
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Microsoft’s iOS Microsoft 365 Copilot app is being stripped of advanced OneDrive file-management capabilities, redirecting users to the OneDrive app for folder browsing, permission changes, and downloads — a move that finalizes the app’s transition from an all-in-one Office hub into a focused AI...
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ChatGPT users around the world woke up to blank responses and error messages on September 2–3, 2025, as OpenAI’s flagship chatbot experienced a partial outage that left thousands frustrated and underlined the operational risks of relying on a single AI provider for critical workflows...
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Samsung and Microsoft have agreed to bring Microsoft Copilot — the conversational AI that lives inside Windows and Microsoft’s cloud services — onto a selection of Samsung’s 2025 smart TVs and Smart Monitors, turning the living room screen into an interactive, voice-first companion that can...
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Microsoft’s Copilot is not just growing — it’s accelerating faster on mobile than many expected, and recent Comscore data shows that the shift is reshaping the consumer and enterprise AI landscape in ways that matter for Windows users, IT teams, and marketers alike. The numbers tell two...
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Satya Nadella’s five short Copilot prompts are less a CEO flex and more a practical playbook for turning generative AI into repeatable executive work — from meeting readiness and project rollups to launch probabilities and time audits — and the implications for Windows and Microsoft 365 admins...
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Microsoft and Samsung have quietly turned the living room into the next battleground for conversational AI: Microsoft Copilot is now embedded in select Samsung 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors, offering a voice‑first, animated assistant that speaks aloud, displays large, distance‑legible visual...
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Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have struck a OneGov agreement to deliver steep discounts on Microsoft cloud services for federal agencies — including no‑cost access to Microsoft 365 Copilot for eligible G5 users for up to 12 months — a package GSA and Microsoft say...
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Microsoft’s offer to make Copilot available at no charge to U.S. government workers marks a significant shift in how enterprise AI is being positioned for public-sector users, promising quick adoption benefits while raising immediate questions about procurement, security, and long-term costs...
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Microsoft’s push to fold advanced generative AI into Azure and Microsoft 365 is no longer an experimental add‑on — it’s a full‑scale platform strategy that reshapes product roadmaps, enterprise buying decisions, and how companies monetize intelligence across workflows.
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