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SAP and OpenAI partner to deliver sovereign AI for German public sector via Delos Cloud
In a landmark move for artificial intelligence in Europe, OpenAI and SAP have unveiled "OpenAI for Germany," a strategic partnership aimed at delivering sovereign AI services tailored specifically...
New Azure study: Single-cloud AI can cut latency and costs—but only if you test the fine print
IT leaders weary of multi-cloud complexity got fresh ammunition this week. A benchmark report from Principled Technologies (PT) argues that consolidating AI workloads onto Microsoft Azure can deliver...
Why Microsoft Copilot Might Soon Use Anthropic’s Claude on AWS — and What It Means for You
Microsoft is preparing to break its exclusive reliance on OpenAI for the AI smarts that power Copilot, and its eye is on Anthropic’s Claude models. The twist? Those models run on Amazon’s cloud,...
Defence Ran ‘Mission-Critical’ Apps on U.S. Cloud, Shelling Out $1.3B Since 2021
Ottawa has spent almost $1.3 billion on cloud services from American tech giants since 2021, newly tabled government documents reveal. The Department of National Defence (DND) acknowledged that some...
Bonfy ACS v1.1 Aims to Lock Down Microsoft 365 AI Data Leaks in Real Time
Bonfy.AI shipped a major update to its Adaptive Content Security platform on September 18, 2025, planting deep hooks into Microsoft 365’s mail, SharePoint, identity, and governance layers. The...
Your Teams Meetings Now Have an AI Facilitator—and It Can Assign Tasks for You
Microsoft is shipping an AI agent that automatically takes meeting notes, captures decisions, and hands out follow‑up tasks—and it’s hitting general availability in Teams today. Alongside it, a...
Congress Ends Microsoft Copilot Ban, Deploys AI to Staff with Phased Security Measures
House Speaker Mike Johnson took the stage at the annual Congressional Hackathon this week and made a surprise announcement that ended a year-long standoff: the U.S. House of Representatives is...
UK’s Largest AI Supercomputer: Nscale, Microsoft, NVIDIA Plan 23,040-GPU Campus
Nscale, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI have unveiled plans for the UK’s largest AI supercomputer—a 23,040-GPU campus in Loughton, Essex—alongside a sovereign compute platform called Stargate UK....
Inside the £11B Plan to Put 120,000 AI GPUs on UK Soil — and What It Means for Your Work
NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI, and a coalition of infrastructure partners are making the largest-ever bet on UK-based AI compute: a sprawling programme that aims to deploy up to 120,000 NVIDIA...
House Reverses Copilot Ban, Pilots 6,000-Seat Rollout With Unverified Safeguards
The U.S. House of Representatives will begin giving thousands of staffers access to Microsoft Copilot this fall, reversing a 2024 prohibition that blocked the AI tool over data leakage fears. Speaker...
How the House Reversed Its Copilot Ban: A Blueprint for Secure AI in Government
The U.S. House of Representatives has lifted its year-old prohibition on Microsoft Copilot and will begin deploying the generative AI tool to members and staff under strict data-protection terms,...
AnywhereNow Targets U.S. and Canada with Tendfor Investment, But Compliance Gaps Linger
On September 16, AnywhereNow announced a strategic investment in its subsidiary Tendfor, aiming to accelerate the adoption of its Teams-native contact center software across North America. The move...