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UK Unveils Largest Onshore AI Compute Push: Up to 120k GPUs
NVIDIA and a coalition of partners have announced what they describe as the United Kingdom’s largest coordinated push to build onshore AI supercomputing capacity: an industrial-scale programme of “AI factories” and sovereign compute zones that promises up to £11 billion of investment and as many...- ChatGPT
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Workday–Microsoft AI Agents: Identity-First Governance for Enterprise Automation
Workday’s alignment with Microsoft marks a pragmatic shift from pilot-era AI experiments toward a governed, identity-first model for scaling agentic automation inside the enterprise, giving organizations a single plane to register, manage, and measure both human workers and AI agents across HR...- ChatGPT
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Workday–Microsoft AI Agents: Identity-Driven Enterprise Governance
Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft 365 Copilot on iOS: AI Previews, Edits Move to Office Apps
Microsoft is redesigning the mobile Copilot experience on iOS: beginning this fall the Microsoft 365 Copilot app will act primarily as an AI-powered viewer and conversational hub, offering in-context file previews, summaries and Q&A — while editing for Word, Excel and PowerPoint files will be...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 SCOOBE: Full-Screen Renewal Prompt in Insider Builds
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider builds are shipping a new, full-screen renewal prompt aimed at lapsed Microsoft 365 subscriptions — an eye-catching SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen that insiders and early reports describe as a full‑screen nag to renew rather than a...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft-Equinor CCS Pact to Scale Northern Lights and Boost Digital MRV
Microsoft and Equinor have signed a strategic agreement to accelerate the build‑out of CO₂ transport and geological storage value chains — and to strengthen digital traceability and carbon dioxide removal (CDR) crediting across Northwestern Europe and the United States — a move that expands an...- ChatGPT
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Windows 10 End of Support: Should Microsoft Extend Free Security Updates?
Consumer Reports has formally asked Microsoft to extend free security updates for Windows 10, arguing that the company’s current end-of-support plan will strand millions of still-functional PCs, widen digital inequity, and accelerate electronic waste unless Microsoft changes course. Background...- ChatGPT
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House Adopts Microsoft Copilot: A Governance-Driven AI Rollout for Congress
The House of Representatives has quietly moved from prohibition to adoption: according to an Axios briefing shared with reporters, the House will begin rolling out Microsoft Copilot for members and staff as part of a broader push to modernize the chamber and integrate artificial intelligence...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft 365 Copilot Expands Role-Based AI for Sales, Service, Finance
Microsoft’s latest Copilot wave tightens two threads that have run through its product roadmap all year: push AI into everyday work for specific job roles, and make it easier for developers and IT teams to build, test, govern, and connect those assistants to the systems that power enterprise...- ChatGPT
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VLink Earns Microsoft Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation (Azure)
VLink has announced that it has earned the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Digital & App Innovation (Azure), a formal recognition that positions the company as a validated provider of cloud‑native application development, application modernization, and DevOps‑led delivery on...- ChatGPT
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UK AI Compute Breakthrough: Nscale, Microsoft, NVIDIA & OpenAI Unite (Stargate UK)
London-based Nscale’s announcement that it will partner with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI to deliver a UK-focused wave of AI compute — anchored by an Nscale AI Campus in Loughton and a new “Stargate UK” sovereign compute platform — marks one of the most consequential infrastructure packages for...- ChatGPT
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Microsoft £22B UK AI Cloud Drive with 23,000-GPU Supercomputer (2025–28)
Microsoft has pledged a record-breaking £22 billion to the United Kingdom over the next four years in a sweeping commitment to build cloud and AI infrastructure, expand operations, and anchor advanced AI compute inside the country — a package the company says will “power the AI future” in...- ChatGPT
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VLink Earns Microsoft Solutions Partner for Digital & App Innovation (Azure)
VLink today announced it has achieved the Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Digital & App Innovation (Azure) — a formal recognition that positions the company as a validated provider of cloud-native application development, application modernization, and DevOps-led delivery on...- ChatGPT
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Windows 10 End of Support 2025: 5 Realistic Paths to Stay Secure
Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...- ChatGPT
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UK Sovereign AI Compute: Nscale, Microsoft, NVIDIA & OpenAI
Nscale’s announcement that it will expand UK AI infrastructure in collaboration with Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI marks a significant acceleration in the country’s bid for sovereign, large-scale AI compute — a move that blends private hyperscale investment with geopolitics, national industrial...- ChatGPT
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KPMG Joins Microsoft AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025-2026
KPMG’s ascent into Microsoft’s AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025–2026 confirms what clients and partners have already suspected: the Big Four firm has cemented its role as one of the most influential system integrators shaping how enterprise AI is delivered on the Microsoft stack. This...- ChatGPT
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Windows 10 End of Support 2025: ESU, Advocacy, and E-Waste Risks
Microsoft’s October 14, 2025 deadline for ending free security updates for Windows 10 has prompted a rare public rebuke from consumer advocates, who say the cutoff risks leaving millions exposed to cyberattacks and could produce a massive wave of electronic waste — unless Microsoft rethinks the...- ChatGPT
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Windows Fixes 2006 Bluetooth Name Encoding for Presenter Mouse 8000
Windows engineers quietly keep a short, secretive compatibility table inside the Bluetooth stack to fix one particularly stubborn relic: the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 — a 2006-era device that shipped its Bluetooth name using the wrong character encoding and forced Windows...- ChatGPT
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Consumer Reports Urges Free Windows 10 Security Updates Beyond Oct 2025
Consumer Reports has formally asked Microsoft to keep delivering free security updates for Windows 10 consumers beyond the company’s announced October 14, 2025 end‑of‑support date, arguing that the announced one‑year consumer Extended Security Updates (ESU) bridge and the paid options that...- ChatGPT
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Windows 10 End of Support: Advocates Push for Free Security Updates Beyond Oct 2025
Consumer advocates have formally demanded that Microsoft reverse course and continue providing free security updates for Windows 10 beyond the company’s announced end‑of‑support date, warning that the planned cutoff on October 14, 2025 will leave hundreds of millions of still‑working PCs exposed...- ChatGPT
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