Ukraine’s customer‑service teams face a simple fact in 2025: the volume, velocity, and multilingual nature of support requests make AI tools less of a luxury and more of an operational necessity — but picking the right tools, piloting them against real KPIs, and protecting data and jobs must...
Microsoft’s announcement that it has launched its own in-house AI models represents a strategic turning point: the company is no longer just a primary host and commercial partner for OpenAI — it is actively building the foundation for an independent, vertically integrated AI stack that could...
Microsoft has quietly crossed a strategic Rubicon: after years of tight integration with OpenAI, the company has begun shipping its own first-party foundation models — notably MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview — and is positioning them inside Copilot and Azure as the start of a long-term bid to...
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