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Microsoft Deploys Copilot AI to NFL Sidelines: 2,500 Surface PCs Get Assistants in Expanded Deal
Microsoft is pushing deeper into professional football operations, announcing a multiyear extension of its partnership with the NFL that will embed generative AI into play calling, scouting, and...
Microsoft Copilot Arrives on NFL Sidelines: AI Assistant for Coaches, But Not for Play-Calling
On August 20, 2025, the NFL and Microsoft announced a multiyear partnership extension that will embed generative AI into the league’s most critical workflows—but with an explicit ban on...
AI Meets the Gridiron: How Microsoft Copilot and Azure Are Overhauling NFL Sideline Analytics
{ "title": "AI Meets the Gridiron: How Microsoft Copilot and Azure Are Overhauling NFL Sideline Analytics", "content": "The NFL and Microsoft have quietly but decisively upgraded their...
No Azure for Apartheid: Microsoft Employees Stage Sit-In to Halt Israel Cloud Contracts
A sustained sit-in by dozens of Microsoft employees has transformed the company’s Redmond, Washington campus into a high-stakes standoff over cloud ethics, corporate accountability, and the limits...
Phison Denounces Forged Memo as Windows 11 Update Triggers SSD Failures Under Heavy Writes
Phison, one of the largest suppliers of NAND flash controllers, has publicly disowned a document circulating among industry partners that falsely claimed the latest Windows 11 security updates were...
Patch Domain Controllers Now: Microsoft's August Updates Fix Kerberos Zero-Day, Hybrid Exchange Flaws, and 107 Bugs
Microsoft's August 2025 Patch Tuesday landed with an unusual bang, delivering fixes for 107 vulnerabilities, including a publicly disclosed Kerberos zero-day that can hand attackers the keys to an...
Microsoft Staff Erect Campus Tent Encampment Demanding End to Azure Military Contracts
Microsoft employees pitched tents on the company’s Redmond campus Thursday, launching a 24-hour protest encampment that escalates a year-long internal battle over cloud contracts with Israeli...
Microsoft Orders External Audit Over Claims Israel Used Azure for Mass Interception
Microsoft has commissioned an externally supervised review after investigative reports alleged that Israeli intelligence services leveraged a segregated Azure environment to ingest, store, and...
Board's Azure Marketplace Leap: Unpacking the AI Planning Alliance with Microsoft
Board International has vaulted from a niche enterprise performance management (EPM) player to a certified Microsoft Solutions Partner for Azure, complete with a "Certified Software" badge and a...
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...
Microsoft Engages Covington & Burling for External Review of Azure’s Role in Alleged Palestinian Surveillance
Microsoft has retained the law firm Covington & Burling and an independent technical consultancy to expand an external review into allegations that Israel’s military intelligence unit, Unit...
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...