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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) Background...

Ralph Lauren’s new conversational stylist, Ask Ralph, is rolling out to U.S. app users today — a generative-AI feature built with Microsoft on the Azure OpenAI platform that promises brand-curated, shoppable outfit suggestions delivered through natural-language conversation and visual laydowns...

AI chatbots are answering more questions than ever — and, according to a de‑anonymized NewsGuard audit released in September 2025, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often: roughly one in three news‑related replies contained a verifiable false claim during the August 2025 test cycle...

Microsoft is quietly turning Edge into a research assistant you can talk to: recent Canary builds are testing a multi‑tab summarization feature that lets Copilot read and synthesize content from several open tabs at once — a capability that shifts Copilot from a single‑page summarizer to a...

AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle. Background The...

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...

In January, security researchers at Aim Labs disclosed a zero-click prompt‑injection flaw in Microsoft 365 Copilot that demonstrated how a GenAI assistant with broad document access could be tricked into exfiltrating sensitive corporate data without any user interaction—an attack class that...

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...

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...

The era when meeting prep meant skimming an inbox and scribbling a one-line agenda is ending — generative AI is now offering pre-meeting intelligence that reads past conversations, surfaces likely priorities, and hands executives five concise, context-aware talking points before they walk into a...

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’s recent quiet fix to an M365 Copilot logging gap has opened a new debate over cloud transparency, audit integrity, and how enterprise defenders should respond when a vendor patches a service-side flaw without issuing a public advisory. Security researchers say a trivial prompt...

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...

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...

Cross‑AI integration is fast becoming the defining architecture for the next generation of intelligent applications: instead of betting on a single large language model to do everything, modern systems stitch together multiple specialized models, orchestrate them with purpose-built frameworks...

Generative AI represents one of the most transformative waves in enterprise technology, promising to revolutionize how organizations operate, serve customers, and drive innovation. Yet, realizing the true potential of generative AI—where intelligent agents, context-aware search, and dynamic...

Microsoft’s push to redefine the web browsing experience has entered a new era with the unveiling of Copilot Mode in Microsoft Edge—a dramatic step not only for the future of Edge, but for the evolution of web browsers in general. Amid intensifying AI innovation from Silicon Valley giants and...

Here’s a summary of the key points from the Khaleej Times article about Cohesity Gaia's integration with Microsoft 365 Copilot: What’s New? Cohesity Gaia now integrates with Microsoft 365 Copilot, giving knowledge workers access to Cohesity backup data directly from the Microsoft 365 Copilot...

Cohesity's recent integration of its AI-powered search assistant, Gaia, with Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a significant advancement in enterprise data accessibility. This collaboration enables users to perform AI-driven searches across archived emails, documents, and spreadsheets directly within...