San Francisco has quietly pushed one of the largest municipal deployments of generative AI in the United States, rolling Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat—powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o—out across tens of thousands of city employees with promises of measurable productivity gains, faster resident service...
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San Francisco has long been recognized as a global nexus of technological innovation, but its new citywide rollout of artificial intelligence (AI) tools across government is raising the bar for what it means to be a twenty-first-century smart city. Under the leadership of Mayor Daniel Lurie, the...
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The war in Gaza has heightened world attention on the nexus of cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and military conflict. As the devastation of the ongoing hostilities continues to prompt global condemnation and fierce debate, large tech companies like Microsoft find themselves at the...
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Microsoft’s recent statement addressing the contentious issue of its technology’s role in the ongoing Gaza conflict has sparked a heated debate within and beyond the tech industry. Central to the controversy is the company’s assertion that, after conducting both internal and external reviews, it...
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