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Global AI adoption is growing, and so is the digital divide

A Microsoft AI Economy Institute study shows stark differences between nations located in 'Global North' versus 'Global South'.

By Paul Barker

Jan 8, 20266 mins

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Microsoft now lets customers run agents on Windows 365 cloud PCs

A new Windows 365 option aims to give enterprises an isolated space for agentic workloads, while ‘AI-enabled Cloud PCs’ offer another way to access exclusive Windows AI features.

Nov 20, 2025 3 mins

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How IT leaders can build successful AI strategies — the VC view

When it comes to figuring out where to spend their money, venture capitalists have a different perspective than IT leaders about what success looks like. That’s especially true around AI.

Nov 20, 2025 7 mins

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Zoho revamps Zoho One’s UI to focus on work, not apps

Even larger enterprises should take a look at a product long associated with the SMB market, says one analyst.

Nov 20, 2025 3 mins

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Microsoft drops M365 Copilot price for SMBs, upgrades free Copilot Chat

Beginning next month, companies with fewer than 300 employees will pay less for Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business.

Nov 19, 2025 5 mins

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Gartner: IT spending in Europe to increase 11% in 2026

Investment in generative AI is expected to grow by 78%.

Nov 19, 2025 1 min

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Trump calls for federal AI standard, warns China will ‘easily catch’ US

A push for unified federal rules comes as state AI regulations create a mounting compliance burden.

Nov 19, 2025 5 mins

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Google releases Gemini 3 with new reasoning and automation features

The model is now embedded across Google’s core products, introducing new agent features and automation tools that raise strategic questions for enterprise IT leaders.

Nov 19, 2025 5 mins

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Microsoft unveils Agent 365 to help IT manage AI ‘agent sprawl’

Each agent will be assigned an Entra ID, as Microsoft vies for position as the central management tool for agents at work.

Nov 18, 2025 5 mins

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More work for admins as Google patches latest zero-day Chrome vulnerability

Flaws affecting V8 JavaScript engine still drawing attackers to world’s most widely-used browser.

Nov 18, 2025 4 mins

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Doomed enterprise AI projects usually lack vision

Recent research finds that while companies are eager to embrace the fast-moving technology, their success rates are low.

Nov 18, 2025 6 mins

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Microsoft fixes Windows 10 update flaw

Bug was the first to emerge since IT had to start paying for Windows 10 Extended Security Updates.

Nov 17, 2025 2 mins

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Jeff Bezos’ Project Prometheus move seen as a rethinking of AI IT strategy

Does the $6.2 billion move mean that genAI is mature and this is the next logical step, or does it mean the opposite, that this is a pivot to try and find a profitable route?

Nov 17, 2025 8 mins

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Nvidia’s new AI physics model can help design chips and a whole lot more

But as the chip maker seeks to parlay its semiconductor dominance into control of the full stack, vendor lock-in is a major risk, says one analyst.

Nov 17, 2025 4 mins

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Apple preps for iPhone diversification

The company will reportedly split up the release of various iPhone models, with some of them rolling out in the spring, others, each autumn.

Nov 17, 2025 4 mins

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Google is unleashing AI shoppers on enterprises — is your infrastructure ready?

Retail infrastructure built for a human pace will buckle unless IT leaders overhaul data hygiene, routing logic, and guardrails to cope with agentic traffic.

Nov 14, 2025 6 mins

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Salesforce to acquire Doti to boost AI-based enterprise search via Slack

The acquisition will help Salesforce execute its vision of combining Slack and Agentforce to offer more automation to its users across its own products, analysts say.

Nov 14, 2025 3 mins

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Though official US jobs data for October was missing because of the recent government shutdown, private firms see AI-related layoffs taking a toll on the workforce.

Nov 14, 2025 6 mins

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Synopsys to eliminate 10% of staff following Ansys integration

The restructuring could eliminate up to 2,800 jobs as chip design giant integrates engineering simulation firm.

Nov 13, 2025 5 mins

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OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.1 to refine ChatGPT with adaptive reasoning and personalization

OpenAI is positioning GPT-5.1 as a confidence-building upgrade amid rising competition from Claude, Gemini, Mistral, and open-source models.

Nov 13, 2025 5 mins

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‘Cameyo by Google’ launches with Chrome Enterprise integration, Gemini AI support

Google promises enhanced security for virtual applications as it seeks to address one of the main drawbacks of Chromebooks in the enterprise: a lack of support for all Windows apps.

Nov 12, 2025 3 mins

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Gartner: European IT leaders to boost spending on local clouds amid geopolitical worries

More than half of Western European firms plan to restrict their use of global cloud provider, amid growing concerns around control of cloud-hosted data. But don’t expect a mass exodus from the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft any time soon

Nov 12, 2025 4 mins

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Meta’s SPICE framework pushes AI toward self-learning without human supervision

The new reinforcement learning system lets large language models challenge and improve themselves using real-world data instead of curated training sets.

Nov 12, 2025 5 mins

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Microsoft product roadmap hints at ‘Agentic Users’ with their own M365 licenses

The autonomous AI agents will be able to attend meetings, edit documents, communicate — and perhaps run up consumption-based charges all by themselves.

Nov 10, 2025 6 mins

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Does talk of government backstops mean an AI bubble is about to burst?

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar’s awkward reference to a government “backstop” for AI infrastructure loans has renewed speculation that an AI bubble is reaching breaking point: Should CIOs be concerned?

Nov 10, 2025 4 mins

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Privacy groups warn the changes could erode core protections, while the Commission argues they simplify compliance and support innovation.

Nov 10, 2025 6 mins

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Microsoft lets shopping bots loose in a sandbox

Simulation environment called Magentic Marketplace is designed to safely examine how AI agents interact with humans and each other.

Nov 7, 2025 8 mins

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Microsoft to move Configuration Manager to annual release cadence in ‘26

Support will continue for the end point management tool, but Intune will receive ‘all future investments and innovation’ going forward, Microsoft says.

Nov 7, 2025 2 mins

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Microsoft creates a team to make ‘humanist superintelligence’

The company plans to research and develop AI as "practical technology explicitly designed only to serve humanity," according to Mustafa Suleyman, head of AI at Microsoft.

Nov 7, 2025 4 mins

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Nikkei’s Slack breach leaks sensitive data from more than 17,000 users

The Nikkei incident highlights the enterprise risks associated with access to enterprise resources from non-enterprise-managed devices.

Nov 6, 2025 5 mins

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Apple’s war in Europe

The European Commission has made the App Store less safe for users. And yet, the investigations continue.

Nov 6, 2025 7 mins

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Gemini’s research tool can now access emails and documents

The change will enable the creation of more in-depth reports based on user data for those who opt in.

Nov 6, 2025 1 min

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Microsoft issues apology for misleading Microsoft 365 pricing plans

Microsoft’s U-turn after facing regulatory heat for pushing Copilot-linked price hikes could mark a turning point in how Big Tech discloses AI-driven software costs.

Nov 6, 2025 6 mins

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Humain pushes for an AI-first computing experience — but there are skeptics

The Saudi Arabia-based company’s new ‘Humain One’ is a full technology stack — from OS to data center — that enables users to verbally tell computers what to do, without using icons or mouse clicks.

Nov 6, 2025 7 mins

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Space: The final frontier for data processing

Corporations are in a race to analyze data from above the clouds.

Nov 5, 2025 4 mins

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M365 Copilot data processing goes local to meet sovereignty demands

Microsoft will process M365 Copilot prompts and responses locally in 15 countries as part of its growing commitment to digital sovereignty.

Nov 5, 2025 3 mins

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Office sandbox file security to disappear from enterprise Windows by late 2027, Microsoft confirms

Microsoft Defender Application Guard’s Hyper-V malicious detection is being abandoned in favor of a faster rules-based design.

Nov 5, 2025 4 mins

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Anthropic lands Cognizant as corporate client

The consulting giant will soon roll out Anthropic's Claude model to its 350,000 employees.

Nov 5, 2025 1 min

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IBM to cut thousands of jobs as Red Hat growth slows

The workforce reduction is designed to streamline operations rather than signal financial distress, according to analysts.

Nov 5, 2025 5 mins

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Amazon’s legal threat to Perplexity raises questions over AI autonomy and platform control

The dispute stirs debate about how much freedom autonomous AI tools should have online and whether big tech platforms are tightening control to protect their own ecosystems.

Nov 5, 2025 4 mins

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Latest Statcounter findings indicate that, aside from in the Americas, there’s close to a 50-50 split with Windows 11.

Nov 4, 2025 6 mins

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The research firm says 55% of employers surveyed regret laying off staffers because of the promise of AI.

Nov 4, 2025 1 min

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Louvre delayed Windows security updates ahead of burglary

Thieves broke in through a second-floor window, but the museum has had other problems with unsecured Windows too, according to a decade-old cybersecurity audit report that has now come to light.

Nov 4, 2025 4 mins

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Anthropic experiments with AI introspection

Anthropic is exploring whether AI models can experience “introspection,” or awareness of their own internal state, as a tool to better understand their functioning.

Nov 3, 2025 6 mins

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OpenAI spends even more money it doesn’t have

Commitment to invest $38 billion to run its workloads on AWS follows last week’s promise to buy $250 billion of Azure services.

Nov 3, 2025 6 mins

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Apple may tap Google Gemini for Apple Intelligence AI

The arrangement will reportedly see Gemini running on Apple servers to power parts of the Siri experience.

Nov 3, 2025 5 mins

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Cyber agencies produce ‘long overdue’ best practices for securing Microsoft Exchange Server

Best practices include a focus on hardening user authentication and access, ensuring strong network encryption, and minimizing application attack surfaces.

Oct 31, 2025 6 mins

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