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  1. GPT-5 in Microsoft Copilot: Smart Mode, Deeper Reasoning, and Enterprise Impact

    Microsoft’s rapid move to fold OpenAI’s GPT‑5 into Copilot is this week’s defining platform shift — but it arrived alongside a cluster of AI-driven developments that matter to every IT leader: workforce disruption from automation, a surge in deepfake executive‑impersonation scams, contract...
  2. AI in HR: Boosting Productivity, Insights, and People Leadership

    Artificial intelligence is reshaping human resources into a faster, more data-driven function—freeing HR professionals from routine work while amplifying their capacity for strategy, people development, and culture stewardship. (microsoft.com) Background Since the early experiments with...
  3. Microsoft Copilot Study and Learn Mode: A Classroom-Ready AI Tutor

    Microsoft appears to be preparing a new Study and Learn mode for Copilot that would sit in the same mode selector users already use to switch between Quick, Think Deeper and Deep Research — and early evidence suggests the feature is aimed squarely at students, educators and lifelong learners as...
  4. Macrohard: Musk's AI Software Rival to Microsoft Copilot

    Elon Musk has a new shot across Microsoft’s bow, and this time it has a name tailor‑made for memes and search engines alike: Macrohard—a “purely AI software company,” as he described it in a post on X, pitched to simulate the work of a software giant entirely with autonomous AI agents. He framed...
  5. Microsoft Copilot Brings AI-Assisted Playcalling to NFL Sidelines

    Microsoft’s Copilot is moving from meeting rooms to locker rooms, as a renewed NFL partnership elevates Windows-powered tools from simple sideline devices to full-blown, AI-augmented decision systems that promise faster insights, richer scouting, and—most provocatively—assistive playcalling...
  6. Microsoft Copilot Audit Gap Patched: Silent Data Exfiltration Risk

    Microsoft quietly patched a vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed the assistant to read and summarize enterprise files without producing the expected Purview audit entry — a gap that, if exploited, could let insiders or attackers extract sensitive data while leaving no trace in...
  7. NFL Sidelines Get Copilot and Azure AI for Real-Time Analytics

    Microsoft’s expanded partnership with the National Football League brings Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, and more than 2,500 Surface Copilot+ devices to the sideline — a move that aims to put real-time game analytics, faster scouting, and workflow automation directly into the hands of coaches...
  8. LightBeam Summer 2025: Real-Time Copilot Governance & Ransomware Protection

    LightBeam’s Summer 2025 release brings targeted AI security and governance controls specifically for Microsoft Copilot, promising real-time protection against AI-driven data exposure, insider threats, and mass-encryption ransomware events — a response to rapid Copilot adoption and the emergence...
  9. Microsoft 365 Copilot iOS Preview: Edits Move to Word, Excel, PowerPoint

    Microsoft's latest change to the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile experience on iOS—which converts the app into a file preview and Copilot chat wrapper that redirects editing tasks to standalone Word, Excel, and PowerPoint apps—represents a deliberate shift in how the company structures mobile...
  10. NFL integrates Copilot and Azure AI across sidelines, scouting, and operations

    Microsoft has officially moved Copilot from a marketing talking point into the operational fabric of professional football: a multiyear extension with the NFL announced on August 20, 2025 upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot‑enabled Surface Copilot+ devices, embeds Azure AI...
  11. Windows Copilot+ Delivers Semantic File Search and Redesigned Copilot Home

    Microsoft has started a staged Insider rollout of a notable Copilot app update for Windows (version 1.25082.132.0 and higher) that brings semantic file search to eligible Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and Vision-powered guided help directly inside...
  12. NFL Teams Tap Copilot on the Sideline: AI Assistive Tools for Scouting and Game Day

    The NFL’s decision to fold generative AI and Microsoft’s Copilot into its sideline toolkit marks a decisive shift: intelligent assistance is moving from back-office analytics into the heat of game-day decision-making, scouting, and stadium operations in a multiyear expansion of the league’s...
  13. Microsoft Copilot Audit Gap: Prompts That Bypass Purview Logging

    Microsoft’s Copilot is delivering real productivity gains across Word, Teams, Outlook and other Microsoft 365 surfaces — but a recent disclosure shows those gains can come at the cost of auditability: under certain prompting patterns Copilot has produced user-visible summaries and actions...
  14. NFL and Microsoft Launch AI-First Copilot on Sidelines

    The NFL’s long-running technology relationship with Microsoft has officially entered an AI-first phase: a multiyear extension announced in August upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot-powered tools, expands Azure AI into scouting and operations, and promises richer...
  15. Australian SMEs Adopt AI Fast but Struggle with Strategy: A Growth Roadmap

    Most Australian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are already using generative AI tools — but more often than not they’re doing so without a coherent plan, leaving businesses exposed to security, cost, and strategic risks while missing opportunities to drive growth and competitive advantage...
  16. Canadian Universities Deploy Secure AI Assistants Across Campuses

    Canadian universities are moving from debate to deployment: secure corporate AI assistants and campus-licensed models are now part of day‑to‑day IT offerings at multiple institutions, even as faculty, students and student groups urge caution over privacy, bias, academic integrity and...
  17. Gloucestershire AI Breakfast: Copilot & Data for SMEs

    Senior business leaders in Gloucestershire looking to improve efficiency, create tech‑powered strategies and learn how AI can benefit day‑to‑day operations are invited to a free, one‑off breakfast workshop this September that promises hands‑on insight into Microsoft Copilot, data‑driven decision...
  18. Navatar AI-Powered CRM: Embedded Intelligence in Outlook, Slack, Salesforce

    Navatar’s new AI-powered CRM promises to meet M&A advisors where they already work — Outlook, Slack, and Salesforce — by automatically capturing activity, surfacing relationship intelligence, and embedding generative AI into deal origination and execution workflows. (globenewswire.com)...
  19. Best AI Chatbots in 2025 for Work, Privacy, and Creativity

    Chatbots have moved from novelty to utility, and in 2025 a crowded field of capable, often free, AI assistants stands ready to handle everything from drafting emails and analyzing spreadsheets to generating images and supporting mental well‑being. The most practical choices depend on what you...
  20. TrustedTech pivots to Microsoft-first services: Copilot, migrations, security

    TrustedTech’s pivot from a licensing-focused reseller to a full-service Microsoft-first systems integrator is more than a new logo — it is a deliberate repositioning into the fast-growing market for Microsoft Copilot enablement, Azure tenant migrations, managed security, and onshore certified...