Microsoft has quietly taken Copilot out of the pocket and planted it on the living‑room screen: select Samsung 2025 TVs and Smart Monitors now ship with a voice‑first, animated Copilot that speaks, lip‑syncs, and answers with large, glanceable visual cards — a move Microsoft and Samsung say...
Microsoft’s announcement that Puget Sound employees who live within 50 miles of a Microsoft office will be expected in the office three days a week by the end of February 2026 is a decisive reset of hybrid norms at one of Big Tech’s most consequential firms — and it changes the framing of...
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The first time you boot the Xbox full‑screen experience on an OG ROG Ally, it feels like someone quietly unhooked Windows from the device and slid a console‑style launcher in its place — but the reality is more pragmatic and far more interesting: Microsoft has layered a controller‑first Xbox...
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Workday and Microsoft have announced a practical, identity-first integration that lets organizations register, verify, and govern AI agents alongside human employees by linking Microsoft’s agent runtime and identity tooling with Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), enabling agents built...
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OpenAI and Anthropic now sit on the public stage while Microsoft and Amazon wage a quieter, higher‑stakes contest for the cloud and compute hegemony that will shape the AI decade ahead.
Background: how we got here
The current alignment — OpenAI with Microsoft and Anthropic with Amazon — is the...
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Cluster Reply and Riverty this week announced a fast-tracked, Microsoft-backed omnichannel customer service platform delivered in just 100 days — a deployment designed as an AI‑first, human‑centric customer service foundation that consolidates voice, chat and email into a single Dynamics 365...
Cluster Reply and Riverty this week unveiled a fast-tracked, Microsoft-backed omnichannel customer service platform that Riverty says was delivered in just 100 days and built to be AI-first while keeping human empathy at its core. The rollout consolidates voice, chat and email into a single...
Microsoft’s decision to expand its Wisconsin AI campus with an additional $4 billion — bringing total investment in the Mount Pleasant/Racine County site to more than $7 billion — is a clear signal that the company intends to cement Azure’s role as an AI infrastructure leader, and the...
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Satya Nadella’s blunt message to Microsoft employees — that the company must undergo a “messy” and relentless transformation to survive the AI era — captures a high-stakes strategy that is already reshaping products, teams, and internal culture across the company.
Background
Microsoft’s...
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London’s AI infrastructure landscape has just been upended: Nscale, the UK-based AI infrastructure company, announced plans to build a multi‑megawatt AI campus in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI that partners say will house one of the country’s most powerful AI supercomputers and...
Nvidia’s announcement this week — backed by major partnerships with CoreWeave, Microsoft, OpenAI and UK-based Nscale — marks a decisive escalation in the battle to build sovereign AI compute in Britain: the plan promises up to 120,000 Blackwell-class GPUs and as much as £11 billion of investment...
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I opened Paint and a small banner asked me to join “Windows AI Labs” — an opt‑in program that, according to the on‑screen card and an attached programme agreement, will let selected users test experimental AI features inside Microsoft Paint before those features are broadly released.
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Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has publicly framed the company’s sprawling new Wisconsin AI campus — branded Fairwater — as a leap in raw frontier compute, saying the site “will deliver 10x the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer today” and positioning the build as a cornerstone for...
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Microsoft’s new Fairwater campus in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, promises to reframe how hyperscalers build and sell AI compute — a 315‑acre, purpose‑built AI “factory” that stitches hundreds of thousands of the latest NVIDIA chips into a single, tightly coupled supercomputing fabric Microsoft...
Microsoft's announcement that Fairwater — a sprawling AI datacenter complex built on the shelved Foxconn site in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin — will become the “world’s most powerful AI datacenter” is a watershed moment for U.S. hyperscale infrastructure, but it also raises immediate technical...
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Microsoft’s announcement that it is building what it calls the world’s most powerful AI datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin — a megasite branded Fairwater — marks a decisive escalation in the physical infrastructure race underpinning the generative AI era. The facility, part of a newly...
Nscale’s announcement — made in partnership with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI — marks one of the most ambitious single-country AI infrastructure packages to land in recent memory, promising to put tens of thousands of next‑generation GPUs on British soil, to seed a sovereign compute platform...
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Visionet’s elevation to Star Performer and placement as a Major Contender in Everest Group’s Microsoft Business Applications Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025 signals a clear acceleration in the company’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 practice and a broader competitive shift among mid-tier systems...
Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 deadline for Windows 10 support has become a high‑stakes public policy moment: consumer advocates, press trackers and at least one lawsuit are pressing the company to change course or widen the safety net, arguing that tens—possibly hundreds—of millions of...
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Anthropic’s latest public dataset and a fresh wave of industry reporting make one thing uncomfortably clear: artificial intelligence is not drifting into the mainstream — it’s charging in, and its adoption pattern is already reshaping who benefits and who lags behind. The company’s September 15...
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