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Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and the New Campus AI Playbook: How Canadian Universities Are Balancing Innovation and Risk
Canadian universities are rapidly embedding generative AI like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT Edu into their operations, but a new report reveals that while institutions celebrate efficiency gains,...
BMW Cuts Vehicle Data Analysis from Days to Hours Using Azure, Paving Way for Cloud AI in Manufacturing
BMW’s Mobile Data Recorder (MDR) program has slashed the time it takes to analyze test-fleet telemetry from a day or more down to mere hours—in some cases minutes—by moving its data pipeline to...
SAP Deploys Generative AI Copilot in AWS and Microsoft Brazil Regions to Power Smarter ERP
SAP is planting its AI flag deep in Brazilian soil. The enterprise software giant has decided to host a key AI-powered business application inside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft datacenters in...
A 12-Year-Old Backlog, a Chatbot, and a Blueprint for Municipal AI: Inside Cornwall's Digital Transformation
A service request had been sitting open in the City of Cornwall’s system for twelve years. That single, startling discovery became the organizing problem that drove a complete rethink of how the...
Microsoft's COPILOT Function Lets You Write AI Prompts Inside Excel Cells
Microsoft has embedded generative AI into the very fabric of Excel with a new COPILOT function, a move that transforms spreadsheet cells into natural-language prompt boxes. Starting this week,...
Microsoft Lays Off 9,000 as Nadella Dumps Gates' Software Factory for AI 'Intelligence Engine'
Microsoft is not struggling. It just posted $76.4 billion in quarterly revenue, netted $27.2 billion, and saw its market cap brush past $3.8 trillion. Yet CEO Satya Nadella is cutting roughly 9,000...
Microsoft Launches Native COPILOT Function for Excel, Embedding Generative AI in the Grid
Microsoft has quietly slipped one of its most consequential AI experiments into the very cells of its billion-user spreadsheet program. The new =COPILOT() function, now rolling out to Microsoft 365...
Toastmasters Cuts Document Editing Time by 50% as Copilot Powers Nonprofit's Digital Rebound
Toastmasters International, the century-old nonprofit devoted to public speaking, is betting its post-pandemic revival on a belt-tightening AI toolkit from Microsoft. Between 2020 and 2023,...
Microsoft Embeds AI Directly into Excel Cells with New COPILOT Function
Microsoft has begun rolling out a native =COPILOT function in Excel, allowing users to type natural-language prompts into cells and receive live, recalculating AI-generated results directly in the...
San Diego Lawsuit Seeks to Force Microsoft to Keep Windows 10 Alive Until Market Drops to 10%
A lawsuit filed in San Diego Superior Court demands that Microsoft continue issuing free security updates for Windows 10 until the aging operating system’s global market share falls below roughly...
Microsoft's New COPILOT Function Brings AI to Excel's Calculation Engine, Sparking Governance and Licensing Fears
Microsoft has quietly slipped generative AI into Excel’s formula bar. The new COPILOT function, now rolling out to Microsoft 365 Insiders, accepts natural-language prompts and cell ranges, then...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Triggers Drive Disappearances During Heavy I/O, Pushing Some to Consider Linux
The August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), is causing solid-state drives and some hard disks to vanish from the system during sustained write operations,...