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AI presentation tools are finally good enough to be genuinely useful—but the right pick depends on whether you need seamless PowerPoint integration, fast template-driven output, team collaboration, or tight control over data visualization and compliance. Background / Overview The last two years...

A new executive paradox is reshaping corporate strategy: while a large majority of CEOs privately fear that artificial intelligence could unseat them, those same leaders are aggressively folding advanced models into core operations—testing AI on the tasks that matter most to governance, finance...

Microsoft’s enterprise AI push has reached a new milestone with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business now positioned as a paid, tenant-grade add‑on that embeds generative AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and a growing set of agent-driven automation tools — and with that promise...

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s head of consumer AI, has bluntly declared that the idea of machine consciousness is an “illusion” and warned that intentionally building systems to appear conscious could produce social, legal, and psychological harms far sooner than any technical breakthrough in...

Microsoft used the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference to lay down a clear, product‑level road map for how it expects AI to reshape the enterprise — centering that plan on Microsoft 365 Copilot, a multi‑model infrastructure called Azure AI Foundry, and a “front end as platform”...

ISDI’s new partnership with Microsoft turns generative AI from classroom theory into a tangible career asset for Executive MBA students, embedding agent-building and Copilot-powered workflows directly into the school’s flagship MIB program so graduates leave with a trained, exportable AI agent...

Microsoft has quietly begun a major pivot in the architecture that powers the AI features inside Office apps: Copilot will now route select workloads to Anthropic’s Claude family — notably the Sonnet 4 models — while continuing to use OpenAI models and Microsoft’s own engines where they remain...

Satya Nadella’s practical, CEO‑level approach to AI boils down to a simple playbook: use AI to compress routine synthesis and surface decision‑ready evidence, but couple that capability with disciplined governance, measurement, and human oversight. In late August 2025 Nadella published five...

Microsoft’s message at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference was unambiguous: the company sees Copilot — and the broader Copilot/Foundry/agent stack — as the hinge that will turn today’s productivity applications into the operating system for the AI era, but the path from...

Bath and North East Somerset Council used Microsoft Copilot to read and summarise more than 5,500 public comments submitted on the planning application for an 18,000‑seat stadium at the Recreation Ground — a development that has reignited debates about AI in local government, public consultation...

Olandria Carthen’s post‑villa momentum took a turn toward purposeful visibility this week as the Love Island USA Season 7 alum reunited two of the most powerful narratives in contemporary culture—HBCU pride and generative AI—by spotlighting Tuskegee University through Microsoft Copilot in a...

Louisville’s new push into municipal artificial intelligence is not vague ambition — it’s a pragmatic, budgeted experiment that starts with staffing, short pilots, and a tight measurement plan designed to prove value or stop wasted spending quickly. Background Mayor Craig Greenberg included a...

Microsoft’s Copilot is being pushed through another iteration of experimental polish: testers have spotted a new voice entry point on the Copilot home screen and a parallel “private chat” mode that promises ephemeral, non‑training conversations—changes that aim to make voice interactions faster...

The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three‑month pilot of Microsoft 365 Copilot delivered a mixed verdict: users reported high satisfaction and clear wins on routine drafting and meeting summaries, but independent evaluation found only modest, use‑case‑specific time savings and no robust...

Microsoft’s Office productivity stack is entering a new phase: after years of leaning hard on OpenAI, Redmond is reportedly adding Anthropic’s Claude family to the mix and routing certain Copilot workloads to the company’s Sonnet models — a pragmatic pivot toward multi‑vendor, workload‑specific...

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...