model governance

Glean’s move from “Google for enterprise” to the invisible intelligence layer under every workplace AI is not a product tweak — it’s a strategic bet that could rewrite how companies adopt, govern, and scale generative AI across the business. Background: how we got here and why the layer matters...

OpenAI and Anthropic launched dueling model updates on the same day, and the result is a sharpened frontline in the AI wars — one where Microsoft, long enmeshed with OpenAI, now finds itself awkwardly wedged between rival architectures, competing commercial strategies, and a rapidly changing...

Microsoft's engineering teams have quietly begun piloting Anthropic's Claude Code across multiple product groups — including the "Experiences + Devices" teams that own Windows, Microsoft 365, Outlook, Teams, Bing, Edge, and Surface — as part of a broader internal experiment that pairs Anthropic...

Satya Nadella’s brief Davos intervention did more than reframe a familiar debate — it refracted the old question of where data lives into a sharper argument about who owns what inside AI models, and why that ownership will define corporate sovereignty in the AI era. At the World Economic Forum’s...

SAS’ cloud-native analytics platform Viya is now officially available to U.S. public sector organizations and the partner ecosystem through Microsoft Azure Government, opening a new on-ramp for agencies that need advanced analytics and AI inside a U.S.-sovereign, contractually isolated cloud...

The industry’s shift from subsidized experimentation to priced precision has arrived: AI’s “Uber moment” — the transition from heavily discounted or loss‑leading access to market‑priced, metered services — is already reshaping vendor strategies and enterprise budgets, and 2026 looks set to be...

2025 closed as the year the AI race left the labs and reshaped markets, governments and enterprise roadmaps—massive capital plans met with dazzling technical advances, and a handful of corporate bargains and alliances rewired who controls compute, models and customer access in the Age of...

Microsoft’s latest push to help businesses convert AI and data into measurable outcomes isn’t about flashy demos — it’s about scaffolding the long march from pilots to production by giving companies a unified data spine, multi‑model choice, and partner‑driven delivery pathways that turn insight...

Microsoft and OpenAI have shipped GPT‑5.2 into Microsoft Foundry, marking a decisive push to make agentic, auditable, enterprise-grade AI a production-first capability for developers and technical leaders. The new model family—offered as GPT‑5.2 (reasoning) and GPT‑5.2‑Chat (everyday...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic’s three‑way pact reshaped the week’s real‑time analytics and enterprise AI headlines, anchoring Anthropic’s Claude family to Microsoft Azure at massive scale while bringing NVIDIA into a deep co‑engineering and investment role — moves that promise to change how...

Microsoft’s Agent 365 announcement at Ignite has already reshaped how enterprise IT will think about AI: it treats AI agents not as ephemeral chat windows but as first‑class, auditable “digital colleagues” that must be discovered, provisioned and governed with the same rigor as people. Mainfunc...

Microsoft, Anthropic and NVIDIA have signed a coordinated set of product, compute and investment agreements that put Anthropic’s Claude family deeper into Azure (including Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot), commit enormous NVIDIA‑powered capacity on Azure, and bind the three companies...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have forged a coordinated, high‑stakes realignment of AI infrastructure that — beyond headline competition — directly reshapes how supply chains will access compute, embed frontier models into planning systems, and manage the operational risks of mission‑critical...

Microsoft’s latest push to make AI not just a productivity feature but an operational platform rests on a simple premise: if agents are going to do real work, enterprises need a managed, auditable, and governable place to build, test, run and secure them — and Copilot Studio is that place...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic have just re‑shaped the AI landscape with a wave of strategic partnerships and infrastructure commitments that accelerate Azure’s push into rack‑scale AI, widen model choice inside Microsoft Copilot, and underscore a new era where compute contracts and data‑center...

Infosys’ announcement that it has developed an AI Agent tailored for energy‑sector operations signals a calculated move to convert agentic generative AI from marketing rhetoric into a practical, production‑oriented offering for drilling, utilities, pipelines and power generation — a solution the...

Generative AI is no longer a novelty for legal teams — it is an operational imperative that General Counsel must shepherd from curiosity to disciplined production use, and Law360’s five‑step playbook crystallizes the practical route: secure executive sponsorship and measurable targets, run...

Space42’s decision to list its AI‑powered geospatial intelligence platform, GIQ, on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace is a strategic moment for the company and the broader geospatial industry — it lowers the commercial and technical barriers to satellite‑derived intelligence, ties a national...

Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures are quietly reshaping the economics and engineering of large-scale AI by letting models grow in nominal capacity while keeping per-request compute and latency within practical limits. Background / Overview Mixture of Experts is not a brand-new idea, but...

Microsoft’s productivity stack just took another step toward agentic work: today’s rollout of Agent Mode in Excel and Word, plus a new Office Agent available from Copilot chat, promises to let everyday users build complex, auditable spreadsheets and full documents from simple natural‑language...