Pittsburgh companies are being asked to treat change not as a periodic challenge but as an ongoing business condition—an expectation now baked into strategy, talent, finance and security decisions—and the practical playbook local leaders are using to stay afloat increasingly mixes rapid...
Barton Community College’s inclusion in a national AI consortium marks a significant moment for small, regional community colleges navigating the coming wave of generative AI in classrooms and campuses, and it exposes both an opportunity and a set of governance questions that every two‑year...
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Microsoft’s quiet rollout of MAI-1-preview and MAI‑Voice‑1 marks the start of a deliberate move to build a first‑party foundation‑model pipeline — one that seeks to reduce Microsoft’s operational dependence on OpenAI while embedding tailored, high‑throughput AI directly into Copilot and Windows...
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Samsung’s move to bake Microsoft Copilot into TizenOS for its 2025 Smart TVs and Smart Monitors represents more than a consumer convenience feature — it rewrites the rules for how displays can be deployed, managed, and monetized in commercial environments. The integration shifts heavy generative...
Microsoft's candid admission that it “cannot guarantee” European customer data will never be handed to U.S. authorities has turned a long‑standing corporate argument about cloud sovereignty into a live-policy moment — and prompted sharp public ripostes from regional players such as OVHcloud’s...
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Artificial intelligence is no longer a theoretical lever — it's the boardroom obsession that many organisations say they must adopt, yet too many remain frozen at the start line by cost, complexity and compliance fears. In a pragmatic call to action, Chris Badenhorst of Braintree argues that the...
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ChatGPT Enterprise has emerged as the de facto leader among business-focused chatbots in 2025, distinguished by enterprise-grade security, scalable deployment tools, and deep customization that supports automation, customer support, and advanced data analysis—claims reflected in industry...
Microsoft has officially moved Copilot from a marketing talking point into the operational fabric of professional football: a multiyear extension with the NFL announced on August 20, 2025 upgrades the league’s Sideline Viewing System with Copilot‑enabled Surface Copilot+ devices, embeds Azure AI...
ChatGPT is not a Microsoft product — it was created and is operated by OpenAI — but the relationship between the two companies is deep, strategic, and increasingly intertwined, which explains why ChatGPT often feels like a Microsoft feature inside Windows, Edge, Bing, and Microsoft 365. tl agent...
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The City of Cornwall’s recent move from a 12‑year unresolved service request to a centralized, AI‑ready case‑management platform is a lesson in pragmatic municipal digital transformation: start with a real, measurable pain point, use the tools already in place, and design governance and...
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Microsoft’s push to make AI the backbone of enterprise contract automation has moved from proof-of-concept to platform play, blending massive infrastructure bets, partner-led solutions, and an explicit governance narrative — all while forcing painful trade-offs across its workforce and...
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The Australian Taxation Office is preparing to pilot an enterprise-grade AI coding assistant for its roughly 800 core developers, a move that could reshape how government software is produced — from legacy COBOL modernization to automated test generation — while raising familiar questions about...
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The UK government’s five‑year Memorandum of Understanding with Microsoft — the Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) — commits public bodies to a scale of procurement that the Crown Commercial Service expects will amount to roughly £9 billion over the life of the deal, and that...
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Microsoft's decision to collapse volume-based price bands for Online Services under Enterprise Agreements into a single, web‑published price is a major commercial shift that will simplify licensing but almost certainly raise bills for many organizations — and reshape how enterprises, partners...
LibreOffice’s blunt charge that Microsoft is using an “artificially complex” Office XML schema as a deliberate lock‑in tool landed like a splash of cold water—and the splash matters because it exposes how fragile interoperability, user choice, and long‑term digital access really are in a world...
The UK government’s five‑year Strategic Partnership Arrangement 2024 (SPA24) with Microsoft has crystallised into one of the most consequential technology procurement decisions of the decade: roughly £1.9 billion a year in public‑sector software and services, approaching £9 billion across the...
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GitHub’s CEO, Thomas Dohmke, announced on August 11, 2025 that he will step down to return to his “startup roots,” a move that coincides with Microsoft folding GitHub’s operations more closely into its CoreAI organization — an arrangement that accelerates the platform’s AI-first strategy while...
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The knives are out in Silicon Valley: within hours of Microsoft rolling OpenAI’s GPT-5 into its product stack, Elon Musk publicly warned Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella that “OpenAI is going to eat Microsoft alive,” setting off a public skirmish that crystallizes a widening strategic fault line...
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Microsoft’s Windows 10 retirement has gone from a scheduled lifecycle event to a full‑blown legal, environmental and consumer‑rights story — a San Diego plaintiff has sued Microsoft seeking an order to keep Windows 10 receiving free security updates until its installed base falls to a small...
Amazon’s cash cow is showing fresh cracks: a once unassailable profit engine is stuttering at the quarter when markets are betting everything on artificial intelligence, and that shift has implications for enterprises, investors, and anyone who depends on cloud infrastructure.
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