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OneGov Deal: Microsoft Gives Federal Agencies Free Copilot, $3.1B in Projected Savings
Microsoft has opened a fast lane for U.S. federal agencies to adopt generative AI, offering Microsoft 365 Copilot at no cost for up to 12 months and a suite of deep discounts across Azure, Dynamics...
Copilot's Mixed UK Trial: 72% User Satisfaction, Yet No Measurable Productivity Boost
The UK Department for Business and Trade’s three-month trial of Microsoft 365 Copilot has delivered a stark message for AI boosters: even when users love the tool, measurable productivity gains...
ChatGPT's Frontend Meltdown: How a UI Glitch Triggered Mass Outage and an Enterprise AI Wake-Up Call
On September 3, 2025, at 10:23 AM Eastern, OpenAI marked as resolved a ChatGPT service disruption that sent millions of users into a productivity spiral. The outage, which began earlier that morning,...
CISA and NSA Rally 19 Nations Behind Unified SBOM Blueprint to Expose Hidden Code Risks
On September 3, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA), backed by 19 international partners, dropped a 22-page consensus document...
The $7.3 Billion Question: What Windows 10 Extended Support Will Really Cost Your Business
A staggering $7.3 billion. That's the headline figure Nexthink projected as the first-year cost for enterprises stubbornly clinging to Windows 10 after its October 14, 2025 end-of-support date....
Microsoft Offers Free Copilot to Feds in $3B OneGov Deal—But Critics Cry Lock-In and Security Risks
The U.S. General Services Administration has struck a deal with Microsoft that makes Microsoft 365 Copilot free for eligible federal agencies for the first year—the latest in a string of...
Microsoft Inks $3 Billion AI Deal with U.S. Government: Free Copilot, Azure Discounts, and the Risks Agencies Can't Ignore
Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration have finalized a landmark OneGov agreement that arms federal agencies with deeply discounted—and in some cases, free—access to the...
Free Microsoft Copilot for Feds: Inside the $3.1 Billion Government AI Deal and Its Hidden Costs
The U.S. General Services Administration and Microsoft have struck a deal to provide millions of federal workers with one year of free access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, a move the agency says will...
KylinOS 11 Debuts as First Chinese Distro on Linux 6.6 with AI and Compute-Sharing
KylinSoft has released KylinOS 11, a major overhaul of China’s flagship domestic Linux distribution, built on Linux kernel 6.6 and packed with on-device AI capabilities, an AI assistant, and a...
Canadian Universities Swap AI Bans for Centralized Copilot and ChatGPT Deployments
Nearly eighteen months after emergency memos and ad‑hoc prohibitions swept Canadian campuses, the nation’s largest universities have largely abandoned blanket generative AI bans. In their place,...
Microsoft’s Brad Smith Vows Investigation After Employees Storm Office Over Azure Israel Surveillance Claims
Microsoft President Brad Smith told reporters on August 26, 2025, that the company would “go investigate and get to the truth” after a group of current and former employees occupied his Redmond...
New 'Woke AI' Ban Shakes Up Pentagon Cloud Race for AWS, Microsoft, Google
The U.S. Department of Defense has embarked on an aggressive pivot to artificial intelligence, embedding it as a strategic backbone for missions ranging from logistics to battlefield decision-making....