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The latest Governance coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Anthropic Class Action Certified: Billion-Dollar AI Copyright Threat Looms for Businesses
A federal judge in California has certified a class of authors accusing AI company Anthropic of downloading millions of pirated books to train its large language models, exposing the firm to...
Nimble Gravity’s 50-Staff Fog Solutions Buy Signals Azure AI Consolidation Surge
Nimble Gravity has acquired Fog Solutions, a boutique data and AI firm with deep Microsoft Azure and Databricks expertise, adding approximately 50 U.S.-based specialists to its roster and bringing...
World-Class AI Talent Can't Overcome Canada's Adoption Gap — Here's What Must Change
Canada topped G7 charts in AI talent concentration growth, with a near 30% year-over-year surge in active professionals, according to a 2023 Deloitte report. The same ecosystem churns out more AI...
GitHub CEO Exits as Microsoft Folds Platform into CoreAI, Heightening Developer Concerns
Thomas Dohmke, the chief executive who steered GitHub through its AI-powered renaissance, announced his resignation on August 11, 2025, setting off a seismic restructuring that will dissolve the...
Microsoft Begins Silent Rollout of 365 Companion Apps to Windows 11 Taskbars
Starting in late October 2025, Microsoft began automatically installing three new companion apps onto the Windows 11 taskbar for devices that already have Microsoft 365 Apps. Dubbed Calendar, File...
Dow Cuts SOC Investigation Time, Upskills Analysts with Microsoft Security Copilot
Inside Dow’s Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC), a simple question has become routine: “Have you asked Copilot?” The 125‑year‑old materials science giant—better known for industrial...
AgentFlayer Unleashed: Zero-Click Chains Turn Enterprise AI Agents into Stealth Insider Threats
At Black Hat USA 2025, Zenity Labs peeled back the curtain on a threat that security teams have long feared but rarely seen weaponized at scale: zero-click prompt injection attacks that silently...
NTT DATA’s Global Microsoft Cloud Unit Targets Production AI as Microsoft Builds ‘Tenant Copilot’ and ‘Agent Factory’
NTT DATA’s creation of a dedicated global Microsoft Cloud business unit on August 7, 2025, signals a pivotal moment in the race to move enterprise AI from proof-of-concept to production-grade,...
Microsoft Copilot Studio Unlocks Hidden Enterprise Data: Multiline Text and File Attachments Now Searchable in Dataverse Knowledge
Microsoft Copilot Studio agents can now search through long-form notes and file attachments stored in Dataverse, a long-awaited update that turns previously buried enterprise data into retrievable...
AI Spending Surge Pushes IaaS to $171.8B, Hyperscalers Command 71% Market Share
The global infrastructure-as-a-service market vaulted to $171.8 billion in 2024, a 22.5% leap that starkly outpaced the prior year’s 16.2% growth, as the three largest providers—Amazon Web...
NTT DATA Consolidates Microsoft Cloud Practice into Single Global AI Unit Led by Aishwarya Singh
NTT DATA has launched a dedicated global business unit for Microsoft Cloud, consolidating its Azure-focused delivery, engineering, and consulting capabilities under one roof. The move, announced this...
NTT DATA Forges Dedicated Microsoft Cloud Unit to Industrialize Agentic AI at Scale
NTT DATA has drawn a line in the sand with the creation of a global business unit laser-focused on the Microsoft Cloud, an abrupt move that consolidates thousands of certified engineers, a library of...