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Microsoft’s Personal Shopping Agent Preview Brings Brand-Safe AI to Retail—at a Security Cost
Microsoft has quietly launched one of its most ambitious retail tools yet: a headless, embeddable Personal Shopping Agent now available in public preview through Microsoft Copilot Studio. The agent...
Ralph Lauren's 'Ask Ralph' AI Stylist Debuts: A Masterclass in Brand Safety and a Litmus Test for AI Taste
On September 9, 2025, Ralph Lauren flipped the switch on Ask Ralph—an in-app conversational stylist powered by Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI, rolling out to U.S. shoppers on both Apple and Android...
Veterans’ Affairs Launches Public Beta of AI Search While Testing Claims Extraction Tool
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA) has flipped the switch on a public beta of AI-powered website search, the first federal agency to do so, and disclosed parallel experiments with Microsoft...
Ralph Lauren Debuts Ask Ralph, an AI Stylist Built on Microsoft Azure, to Transform Mobile Shopping
Ralph Lauren is giving its mobile app users a personal stylist powered by generative AI. The iconic fashion brand today launched Ask Ralph, a conversational shopping assistant built on the Microsoft...
Cerence and Microsoft Unveil Voice-First Copilot for Cars, Bringing Enterprise Security to the Road
Microsoft and Cerence used the IAA Mobility 2025 stage in Munich to announce a voice-first AI assistant that puts Microsoft 365 Copilot directly into vehicle dashboards, promising to turn cars into...
Microsoft and Cerence Accelerate In-Car AI: Copilot Agents Meet Azure OpenAI
Microsoft’s ambition to weave AI into every corner of work and life has taken a decisive turn toward the automotive world. Through an expanded partnership with Cerence Inc., the company is bringing...
SSMS 22 Preview 1 Ships Without Copilot as Microsoft Pivots to GitHub Integration
Database administrators who depend on AI assistance inside SQL Server Management Studio will find the first public preview of SSMS 22 conspicuously silent: Microsoft has confirmed it will ship...
Balfour Beatty's £7.2M Copilot Play: Hackathon Blueprint Drives Construction AI at Scale
Balfour Beatty has placed a £7.2 million bet on Microsoft 365 Copilot, banking that an enterprise-wide AI overlay and employee-driven hackathons can slash rework and raise safety standards across...
FP&A Platform Vena Crosses 2,000 Customer Mark, Brings Agentic AI to Microsoft Teams
Vena has passed a significant milestone, surpassing 2,000 customers worldwide, and simultaneously launched its AI Copilot natively integrated into Microsoft Teams—a move that plants agentic...
From 50 Excel Files to 30 Seconds: CSOP’s Azure AI Hub Shrinks ETF Reporting by 30x
Cenny Cui Haofan’s mornings used to begin with a punishing ritual: opening more than 50 Excel files, sifting through a tangle of departmental emails, and manually chasing colleagues for data —...
Satya Nadella’s 5 Copilot Prompts Bring GPT-5 Reasoning to Microsoft 365 Workflows
Satya Nadella has effectively published a leadership playbook without writing a single management book. By sharing the five prompts he personally uses inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, the Microsoft CEO...
Microsoft Azure Powers Agentic AI for OMV's Drilling Operations in a High-Stakes Pilot
OMV Energy, DeepIQ, and Microsoft have launched a pilot that embeds agentic AI into well construction, with the promise of faster planning, automated risk detection, and a corporate learning loop...