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Microsoft, Google, Uber, Amazon, New York lawmakers, and a growing number of workers and local communities have all collided in spring 2026 over the same problem: the AI boom is no longer just a product story, but a cost, infrastructure, labor, and trust story. The backlash is not a fringe...

Microsoft is facing backlash in early June 2026 after reports said an internal strategy document for its new Scout AI assistant included the phrase “Make people addicted,” prompting CEO Satya Nadella to reject that wording as “absolutely a non goal.” The episode is awkward not because one leaked...

Microsoft introduced Scout, its first “Autopilot” AI agent, at Microsoft Build 2026 on June 2, bringing a preview desktop assistant to selected Frontier customers that can act across Microsoft 365, local files, browsers, and developer tools. The announcement is less about another chatbot and...

Microsoft announced Scout on June 2, 2026, as an always-on AI agent for Microsoft 365, while a leaked internal planning document reported the same day said the first phase of the project was to “make people addicted.” That collision between product launch and internal language is the story, not...

Microsoft says 3D Viewer is deprecated, was announced as deprecated in February 2026, and will be removed from the Microsoft Store on July 1, 2026, while existing installations continue to work and Babylon.js Sandbox becomes Microsoft’s suggested viewing alternative. The practical job now is not...

Microsoft announced Scout at Build on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, as an always-on workplace AI agent for Teams, email, calendars, and Microsoft 365 tasks, initially launching with a small customer group and a Frontier-access desktop app tied to GitHub Copilot. That makes Scout less a chatbot than a...

Roy Morgan’s March-quarter 2026 research says 13.6 million Australians aged 14 and over used artificial-intelligence tools in an average four-week period, with ChatGPT leading at 10.5 million users ahead of Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Canva Magic Studio and Claude. That number is not a...

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicted in a Financial Times interview earlier this year that most computer-based white-collar tasks could be fully automated by artificial intelligence within 12 to 18 months, a claim now drawing renewed criticism from users unimpressed with Microsoft...

Microsoft Copilot users reported widespread access problems on Monday, June 1, 2026, with complaints describing slow replies, failed sign-ins, and unavailable Copilot experiences across web, mobile, and Microsoft 365-integrated versions during the U.S. workday. The important part is not merely...

Microsoft is redesigning how Copilot appears across Microsoft 365 apps in May 2026, centering the effort on a quieter Office interaction model that keeps AI controls near Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and related work surfaces without making them feel like intrusive floating furniture. The company is...

Researchers from Zhejiang University, the National University of Singapore, and Nanyang Technological University have demonstrated AudioHijack, a hidden-audio attack presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Francisco in May 2026 that can manipulate voice AI systems into...

Microsoft’s latest Microsoft 365 Copilot wave, described in a Geeky Gadgets roundup of nine work-focused updates and tied to demos from Microsoft’s Mike Tholfsen, brings app-launcher changes, model switching, Copilot Notebooks, research comparison tools, mind maps, study guides, and AI-assisted...

Microsoft announced on May 13, 2026, that Edge will let Copilot reason across a user’s open tabs on desktop and mobile, while adding study tools, AI-generated audio summaries, browsing-history personalization, long-term memory, and a redesigned new tab page. The practical result is that Edge is...

eWeek’s 2026 chatbot comparison frames ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Meta AI, Duck.ai, Zapier Agents, Poe, and Pi as a market that has moved from scripted chat into workflow software. The important shift is not that chatbots got smarter; it is that they stopped...

This month’s Windows update cycle delivered something more valuable than a feature splash: a clearer picture of how Microsoft is trying to make Windows feel more dependable, more measurable, and more predictable for IT teams. The March 2026 recap ties together quality, servicing, device...

Microsoft is retiring the SaRA command-line utility and directing administrators to the command line version of Get Help instead, a shift that looks small on the surface but matters a great deal for Windows support, Microsoft 365 troubleshooting, and enterprise automation. The change is not just...

Most organisations that say they “use AI” still struggle to convert experiments into measurable business outcomes — and the practical lessons from Sigma Software Group underline why the gap is organisational, not just technical. Background / Overview The rush to deploy generative AI (GenAI) and...

Marie Wiese’s recent conversation on the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast crystallizes what many IT leaders already suspect: the technology story of the next three years will be written as much by people and processes as by models and APIs. Her comments—about practical pilots, honest failure stories...

The year 2025 was the moment artificial intelligence stopped being a mostly academic curiosity and became an industrial force reshaping energy grids, national policy, markets and everyday work — and its effects will define the choices IT teams and policymakers make in 2026 and beyond. Background...

2025 will be remembered as a year of dazzling technological promise and equally conspicuous misfires — a calendar of high-profile experiments, corporate missteps, and product rollouts that sometimes read more like cautionary tales than triumphs. From spectacle-driven suborbital celebrity flights...