momo’s e-commerce arm has taken a clear step into the generative‑AI era: the company announced a partnership with Microsoft Taiwan to roll out a next‑generation, Large Language Model (LLM)‑driven customer service system that went live in July and — according to company statements — already...
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Enterprise AI projects routinely blame “hallucinations” or model limits when assistants deliver wrong, incomplete, or irrelevant answers—but the deeper fault line often lies in the search layer that feeds those models. The AI Journal piece provided by Laurent Fanichet lays out a timely thesis...
For two decades, Google's search box quietly defined the internet's front door — but the arrival of answer‑first AI tools such as Perplexity, ChatGPT (with browsing and memory), and Microsoft’s Copilot Search is forcing an architectural and commercial rethink of what “search” actually means...
Microsoft’s internal rollout of the Licensing Navigator — an AI agent built on Azure AI Services and authored in Microsoft Copilot Studio — is a striking demonstration of how enterprise AI can turn slow, specialist-led tasks into near-instant, context‑aware guidance for employees. According to...
Almirall’s R&D teams can now find the right experiment, protocol, or historical result in seconds instead of hours or days — a leap made possible by combining Azure OpenAI in Foundry Models, Azure AI Search, and Azure Databricks to index and query some 400,000 documents spanning more than 50...
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Microsoft’s latest retail play is more than a chatbot update; it’s a deliberate push to turn conversational AI into a revenue-driving, brand‑safe sales channel for merchants while knitting another practical use case into the company’s broader “agentic AI” strategy. The Personal Shopping Agent —...
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Ralph Lauren has put a chatbot in the business of taste: Ask Ralph, an in‑app stylist built with Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI, is now rolling out to U.S. app users and promising shoppable, head‑to‑toe looks that translate decades of archive imagery into instant styling advice. The launch is a clear...
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Microsoft’s free, 12-lesson GitHub course on building AI agents offers a practical, hands-on primer that packages Microsoft tooling, agent design patterns, and runnable code into a single, modular learning path—making it one of the most accessible entry points for developers and IT professionals...
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Ralph Lauren has quietly moved from runway to R&D with the launch of Ask Ralph, a conversational AI stylist embedded in the Ralph Lauren mobile app that promises brand-curated, shoppable outfit recommendations powered by Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI platform. (wsj.com, voguebusiness.com)
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On August 7, 2025, OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5 and Microsoft announced the model would be powering Microsoft 365 Copilot the same day — a high‑visibility release that quickly turned into a cautionary case study about how model upgrades matter far less to most business users than context, integration...
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Microsoft and Cloudflare have quietly handed website owners a practical toolset to turn ordinary pages into AI‑friendly, conversational endpoints — a move that could accelerate the shift from traditional, keyword‑based search toward answer engines and materially reshape how traffic, attribution...
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Microsoft's Copilot has quietly received one of the most consequential behind-the-scenes upgrades since its rollout: the free tier now runs on OpenAI's GPT-4 Turbo, bringing a much larger context window, a fresher knowledge base, and a set of performance fixes that address earlier complaints...
In Malaysia’s property sector a quiet but consequential shift is underway: instead of rushing to bolt global AI services into every workflow, a growing number of firms are adopting a go-local AI playbook — hosting open-source models on domestic or company-controlled infrastructure, fine-tuning...
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Microsoft quietly patched a vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that allowed the assistant to read and summarize enterprise files without producing the expected Purview audit entry — a gap that, if exploited, could let insiders or attackers extract sensitive data while leaving no trace in...
Microsoft Research India is quietly assembling a bridge between foundational generative AI research and pragmatic, India‑scale applications — a hybrid of deep technical work (retrieval, multimodal benchmarks, energy‑efficient deployment) and collaborative, on‑the‑ground projects that target...
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Azure’s new “Agent Factory” argument reframes the enterprise AI conversation: move beyond retrieval and chat to agents that reason, act, reflect, and collaborate—and use that capability to complete end-to-end business outcomes, not just return answers. The announcement and technical framing...
Cohesity's latest move to integrate its AI-powered enterprise search assistant, Gaia, into Microsoft 365 Copilot represents a significant development at the intersection of cloud data security, artificial intelligence, and business productivity tools. As the demands on modern enterprises to both...
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The announcement of Cohesity Gaia’s integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot signals a pivotal moment in enterprise data management, setting the stage for a new era in AI-powered data retrieval, resilience, and governance. As organizations become increasingly dependent on vast troves of digital...
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The race to unlock actionable insights from the troves of organizational data has always been fraught with complexity, cost, and risk. Yet with the announcement of Cohesity Gaia’s integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot, this paradigm is shifting dramatically, promising to empower enterprises...
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Microsoft 365 users have watched their productivity toolkit steadily transform over the past two years, with “Copilot” features now occupying center stage across Word, Excel, Teams, Outlook, and beyond. This evolution is more than marketing: under the new “Microsoft 365 Copilot” branding...
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