Microsoft investors who bought common stock between May 1, 2025, and January 28, 2026, face an August 11, 2026, lead-plaintiff deadline in a securities class action alleging the company misled the market about Copilot adoption, AI infrastructure strain, and Azure capacity tradeoffs. The lawsuit...
A coalition of local and regional newspaper publishers led by Richner Communications sued OpenAI and Microsoft in Manhattan federal court on June 24, 2026, alleging the companies copied journalism from nearly 400 newspapers without permission to train and operate ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot...
Microsoft on June 25, 2026, expanded Copilot in Excel for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers with reusable Skills, additional finance data connectors, and workbook change tracking across Excel for the web, Windows, and Mac, aimed squarely at finance teams that live in spreadsheets. This is not just...
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Microsoft’s artificial intelligence pitch in June 2026 is no longer just a story about owning the best seat next to OpenAI; it is a broader attempt to make Azure, Copilot, GitHub, Microsoft 365, security, custom models, and agents into one enterprise AI operating layer. That distinction matters...
Microsoft announced on June 25, 2026, that Microsoft 365 Copilot in Excel is gaining finance-focused skills, new third-party financial data connectors, planning and traceability features, and availability across Excel for the web, Windows, and Mac for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers. The pitch...
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OpenText is pitching AI content management as the necessary foundation for scaling Microsoft Copilot, arguing in a June 2026 blog post that enterprise AI disappoints when business content is fragmented, poorly governed, or inaccessible to the assistants expected to reason over it. The claim is...
Microsoft and OpenAI were sued on June 24, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by publishers that collectively own nearly 400 local and regional newspapers. The complaint accuses the companies of copying millions of news articles without permission to train and...
Nearly 400 newspaper publishers sued Microsoft and OpenAI in New York federal court on June 24, 2026, accusing the companies of copying articles, scraping paywalled news, stripping copyright information, and using journalism to train and operate ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission...
A coalition of local and regional newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit on June 24, 2026, accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of using copyrighted reporting from nearly 400 newspapers to train and operate AI products including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or payment. The...
Investec is rolling out Microsoft Copilot and more than 800 internal AI agents across its banking group in 2026, but CIO Graeme Lockley says the bank is deliberately keeping humans in charge of client-facing and risk-sensitive decisions. The important word is not AI; it is deliberately. In a...
A coalition of local and regional newspaper publishers representing nearly 400 U.S. newspapers filed a federal copyright lawsuit in New York on June 24, 2026, accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of scraping their journalism without permission to build products including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot...
On June 24, 2026, publishers that collectively own nearly 400 U.S. newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York, alleging the companies copied local journalism without consent to train and operate products including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot. The case is not...
Microsoft investors who bought common stock between May 1, 2025, and January 28, 2026, now face an August 11, 2026, lead-plaintiff deadline in a securities class action alleging the company misled shareholders about Copilot adoption, Azure capacity, and AI spending. The lawsuit is not just...
Nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft in federal court in New York on June 24, 2026, alleging that the companies copied millions of copyrighted articles to build and operate products including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or payment. The suit...
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Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman said on June 24, 2026, in New York that a securities class action has been filed against Microsoft and certain officers over alleged AI and Copilot-related misstatements affecting investors between May 1, 2025, and January 28, 2026. The complaint turns Microsoft’s...
OtterlyAI announced on June 24, 2026, in San Diego that it will headline sponsor brightonSEO San Diego 2026, a September 15–16 search marketing conference at the San Diego Convention Center, as the Austria-based AI search optimization vendor accelerates its push into North America. The...
OtterlyAI announced on June 24, 2026, that it will headline sponsor BrightonSEO San Diego 2026, a two-day search marketing conference scheduled for September 15 and 16 at the San Diego Convention Center. The move is not just another vendor logo on another event lanyard. It is a useful signal...
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Microsoft announced Windows 11 on June 24, 2021, making today the fifth anniversary of the operating system’s public unveiling, not its general release, which followed on October 5, 2021. That distinction matters because Windows 11’s history has always been split between promise and delivery. It...
Investec switched on Microsoft Copilot for roughly 8,000 employees across South Africa, the United Kingdom and other international markets on June 24, 2026, while also disclosing that more than 800 internal AI agents are already active across the banking and wealth management group. The...
Geotab launched its Model Context Protocol Connector on June 17, 2026, giving fleet operators secure access to live MyGeotab data and Geotab Ace from ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and other approved MCP-compatible AI platforms. The announcement matters less because another enterprise...