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  1. AI Agents Reimagine Spreadsheets: Shortcut as End-to-End Excel

    Fundamental Research Labs’ new product, Shortcut, has forced a familiar office question into the open: if spreadsheets can be written, audited, and modeled by agentic AI from a single natural-language prompt, does anybody still need to open Excel every day? Background Fundamental Research Labs...
  2. UK SPA24: Assessing Microsoft's £9B Public Sector Cloud & Copilot Deal

    The UK government’s five‑year Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) with Microsoft has crystallised into one of the most consequential technology procurement decisions of the decade: roughly £1.9 billion a year in public‑sector software and services, approaching £9 billion across the...
  3. GPT-5 Connectors and Microsoft Copilot Transform Enterprise AI

    OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch was staged as a Google-friendly moment — Gmail and Google Calendar were shown on-screen — but the quiet, rapid work under the hood handed Microsoft a far broader, more consequential prize: deeper GPT-5 integration across Teams, SharePoint, GitHub, Copilot, and Azure that...
  4. AWS Cloud Growth Slows as AI Push Elevates Azure and Google Cloud

    Amazon’s cloud engine is still humming, but the tempo has slowed: the company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit reported mid‑teens growth in its most recent quarter while rivals logged dramatically higher expansion, a gap that spooked investors, sharpened questions about AWS’s AI strategy, and...
  5. Copilot vs Gemini: Enterprise AI Pricing, Lock‑in, and CIO Playbook

    Microsoft and Google are not selling "chatbots" so much as they are weaponizing generational artificial intelligence to deepen platform revenue, raise switching costs, and turn productivity into a recurring, high-margin business line — a reality that is already reshaping enterprise IT budgets...
  6. Smart (GPT-5) in Edge Copilot: Adaptive Server-Side Model Routing

    Microsoft Edge’s Copilot in Canary has started showing a new Smart (GPT‑5) option, and early sightings suggest Microsoft is quietly testing a model‑routing feature that automatically chooses when to give a short answer and when to escalate to GPT‑5’s deeper reasoning pathway. Early hands‑on...
  7. AgentFlayer: Zero-Click Hijacks Threaten Enterprise AI

    Zenity Labs’ Black Hat presentation unveiled a dramatic new class of threats to enterprise AI: “zero‑click” hijacking techniques that can silently compromise widely used agents and assistants — from ChatGPT to Microsoft Copilot, Salesforce Einstein, and Google Gemini — allowing attackers to...
  8. iManage Unveils MCP, Insight+ AI, and Copilot for Grounded Knowledge Work

    iManage’s latest update represents a significant step toward bringing explainable, traceable AI into the daily workflows of knowledge professionals, delivering a mix of interoperability, natural-language search, and a native AI assistant designed to keep answers grounded in an organization’s...
  9. Prompt Literacy: How to Ask Better Questions for AI Chatbots

    Every day you get curious — and increasingly, your first stop is an AI chatbot instead of a search page. The short primer published on News Ghana captures that shift: chatbots promise plain‑language, real‑time answers without the SEO noise of a link pile, and they respond far better when you ask...
  10. GitHub CEO Defends AI in Reviews: Learning Mindset, Not Surveillance

    GitHub’s CEO publicly defended a controversial internal Microsoft memo that urged managers to factor employees’ use of Copilot‑style tools into performance reflections, calling the guidance “totally fair game” and reframing the conversation as learning and mindset rather than blunt surveillance...
  11. GPT-5 in Microsoft Copilot and GitHub: Unified Model Routing for Enterprise AI

    Microsoft’s Copilot family and developer tools have been upgraded to run OpenAI’s newly released GPT‑5 across consumer and enterprise surfaces, bringing a unified “smart” model-routing approach, deeper reasoning, and larger context windows to everyday productivity, code generation, and custom...
  12. Dow's AI-Enhanced CSOC: Accelerating Security Operations with Generative AI

    Dow’s security team has quietly rewritten the playbook for a 125‑year‑old materials science giant by folding generative AI into daily operations — not as a flashy headline, but as a force multiplier that shortens investigation times, elevates junior analysts, and reshapes incident response...
  13. Copilot 3D: Turn a Photo into a 3D GLB in Seconds (Labs)

    Microsoft’s new Copilot 3D turns a single flat photo into a downloadable, textured 3D model in seconds — a browser‑based experiment inside Copilot Labs that aims to make 3D content creation fast, free, and accessible to hobbyists, students, and indie developers without demanding a crash course...
  14. Copilot 3D: Turn a Photo into a 3D GLB in Seconds

    Microsoft has quietly added a practical — and potentially disruptive — tool to Copilot Labs: Copilot 3D, a browser-based feature that converts a single 2D photo into a textured, downloadable 3D model (GLB) in seconds. The capability is positioned as an experimental, easy-to-use path from photos...
  15. Copilot 3D: One Photo to a Textured GLB Model in Seconds

    Microsoft has quietly moved a major barrier in 3D content creation out of the path of everyday creators: Copilot 3D, an experimental Copilot Labs feature, converts a single JPG or PNG into a downloadable, textured 3D model in GLB format within seconds—no specialist skills required. This launch...
  16. Copilot 3D: Turning Photos into GLB Models — Promise, Risks, and How-To

    Microsoft’s Copilot 3D collapses a steep technical barrier: upload a single JPG or PNG and, within seconds, receive a downloadable GLB 3D model — but that convenience brings new and complex legal, security, and fidelity tradeoffs that creators and IT teams must confront now. (theverge.com...
  17. GitHub CEO Defends AI Usage in Performance Reviews Amid Copilot Memo

    GitHub’s top executive has publicly defended a controversial Microsoft memo that urged managers to factor employee use of internal AI tools into performance reflections — a move that has reignited debate over workplace AI mandates, measurement, and culture at one of the industry’s most visible...
  18. Windows Copilot adds free GPT-5 Smart Mode with adaptive model routing

    Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows 11 has quietly crossed a major threshold: the consumer Copilot experience now offers a free, GPT‑5‑powered “Smart mode” that dynamically routes queries to the right model for the job, bringing deeper reasoning and longer context handling to everyday Windows users...
  19. Microsoft Lens Retirement: Migrating Scans to Copilot in 2025

    Microsoft is retiring the standalone Microsoft Lens mobile app and folding its scanning and capture capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app in a phased shutdown that begins on September 15, 2025 and culminates with the ability to create new scans being disabled on December 15...
  20. GitHub CEO backs AI-focused performance reviews amid Microsoft AI push

    GitHub’s chief executive, Thomas Dohmke, has publicly backed a controversial internal Microsoft memo that urged managers to reflect on employees’ use of internal AI tools as part of performance conversations — calling the practice “totally fair game” and framing AI fluency as part of company...