Microsoft has begun rolling out a free, in‑app Copilot Chat experience across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote—embedding a content‑aware AI assistant as a right‑hand sidebar inside the Office apps millions of people use every day. This shift makes conversational AI a native part of...
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Microsoft’s most recent results and guidance refinement make one fact unmistakable: the company’s future growth is being driven by an Azure‑anchored, AI‑first platform strategy — and that strategy is increasingly capital‑intensive, partnership‑dependent, and subject to both regulatory and...
Microsoft and OpenAI have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that frames the “next phase” of one of the technology sector’s most consequential partnerships — preserving deep commercial ties while opening the door to multicloud compute, a governance restructure at OpenAI, and...
Microsoft’s new MAI family—MAI‑1‑preview and MAI‑Voice‑1—marks a deliberate pivot from dependency to orchestration: Microsoft is building first‑party foundation models tuned for product speed, cost and audio-first experiences while continuing to route high‑capability workloads to external...
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Microsoft’s MAI launch is a deliberate pivot: the company is taking the pieces it once licensed, packaging them with native infrastructure and orchestration tools, and betting the future of productivity on a team of specialized agents rather than a single, monolithic brain. This matters for...
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Oracle’s latest earnings and deal disclosures have done something unusual for a long‑running enterprise software vendor: they reframed the company as a potential heavyweight in AI cloud infrastructure, putting a concrete pathway on the table for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to move from...
Oracle’s latest financial quarter did more than surprise investors — it rewrote the short-term narrative for how legacy enterprise vendors can compete in an AI-first cloud market by converting a mountain of booked contracts into a five‑year infrastructure roadmap that, if executed, would elevate...
Oracle’s sudden leap from an enterprise-software stalwart to a potential top-tier cloud infrastructure contender is the defining business story of the fall — and it starts with an eye-popping backlog that reshapes the competitive map for AI-era data centers. (oracle.com)
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Oracle’s latest earnings didn’t just move markets — they rewrote the rules for how a decades‑old enterprise software vendor can pivot into the center of the AI cloud arms race. (investor.oracle.com)
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In fiscal Q1 2026 (quarter ended Aug. 31, 2025) Oracle reported a set of...
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Oracle’s quarter rewrote expectations: a staggering $455 billion in booked future revenue and a five‑year Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) projection that takes OCI from a mid‑single‑digit cloud player into the same league, on paper, as the largest hyperscalers — if the contracts behind that...
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Albania has publicly elevated an artificial intelligence program named Diella into a cabinet-level role — charging the virtual minister with overseeing public procurement in a bid to stamp out a problem long identified by Brussels as one of the main obstacles to Tirana’s EU accession ambitions...
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The OpenAI–Microsoft relationship has entered a new phase: a non‑binding agreement and a broad infrastructure push known as Stargate together loosen the old model of single‑cloud exclusivity while preserving deep commercial ties — a shift that will accelerate AI deployment, reshape cloud...
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OpenAI and Microsoft have quietly signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding that lays the groundwork for OpenAI to restructure its commercial arm into a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) while preserving the nonprofit oversight that has defined the organization since its founding — a...
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OpenAI’s long-running infrastructure romance with Microsoft has quietly shifted from exclusivity to pragmatic flexibility, and the implications reach far beyond two corporate balance sheets — they reshape how cloud capacity, regulatory risk, and enterprise resilience will play out as AI scales...
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OpenAI’s decision to add parental controls to ChatGPT this fall marks a consequential shift in how families, schools, and regulators will manage students’ interactions with generative AI—an acknowledgement that technical safeguards alone have not prevented harm and that human-centered...
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This week’s AI headlines — from a fresh congressional bill that would reshape how high‑performance chips are sold, to the U.S. government’s rollback of an earlier export-control framework, and Microsoft’s quiet decision to split Office 365’s AI supply between OpenAI and Anthropic — have combined...
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The long-running honeymoon between Microsoft and OpenAI has entered a new, more transactional phase: the two companies have signed a non‑binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) that lays out a revised partnership framework while OpenAI pursues a controversial restructure that hands a very...
Microsoft’s internal AI strategy has entered a new phase: after years of leaning on OpenAI for frontier models and privileged cloud access, the company is investing to build its own large-scale compute — including a dedicated AI chip cluster and first-party foundation models — as part of a...
OpenAI and Nvidia are preparing a major push into physical infrastructure in two of the world’s most important AI markets — the United Kingdom and India — in moves that crystallize a new phase of the AI arms race where chips, power and real estate matter as much as algorithms. Early reports say...
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Oracle’s first‑quarter disclosure and subsequent analyst reporting have transformed what had been a cautious infrastructure pivot into a full‑blown, capital‑intensive sprint toward AI dominance — but the numbers that dazzled Wall Street come with real execution and counterparty risks that...