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UK to Get 23,000-GPU AI Supercomputer from Microsoft and Nscale, Plus OpenAI’s Stargate UK Platform
Microsoft, Nscale, NVIDIA, and OpenAI have cemented a multi‑billion‑pound plan to bring sovereign AI compute to the UK, headlined by the country’s largest ever AI supercomputer. The...
Microsoft pledges £22 billion for UK AI future, building largest supercomputer with 23,000 GPUs
Microsoft has unveiled a £22 billion ($30 billion) investment plan for the United Kingdom — the largest single-country commitment in the company’s history. Running from 2025 to 2028, the package...
Self-Service Fixes and Faster Failover: Inside Microsoft’s Latest Windows 365 Resiliency Push
Microsoft just turned the Cloud PC login screen into a self-service repair kiosk and gave IT a choice between two kinds of cross-region disaster recovery—one that’s best-effort and one that’s...
Microsoft Office Insider Build 2509 Saves New Documents to OneDrive by Default — How to Reclaim Local Storage
Microsoft has started testing a significant change in its Office apps that makes OneDrive the default save location for new documents, coupled with Windows setup prompts that push users toward cloud...
CBIZ Unveils Vertical Vector AI: A Microsoft 365-Integrated Platform That Never Exposes Your Data
On September 16, 2025, professional services firm CBIZ launched Vertical Vector AI, an artificial intelligence platform designed to bring practical, secure AI to mid-market businesses that rely on...
AI Agents Get Corporate IDs: Inside Microsoft and Workday’s Landmark Integration
Enterprise AI agents are about to get their own set of corporate credentials. Microsoft and Workday have quietly stitched together a system that assigns verified, directory-backed identities to...
Microsoft to Automatically Install Copilot App on All Windows 365 PCs in October, EEA Excluded
Microsoft will begin automatically installing the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices running the M365 desktop apps starting early October 2025, a move that thrusts the company’s AI...
Microsoft Embeds Copilot Chat Pane in Office Apps, Turning AI Into a Workplace Utility
Microsoft has flipped the switch on a long-anticipated overhaul of its productivity suite, planting Copilot Chat directly inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. The move, part of a...
TierPoint’s Microsoft Private Cloud Badge: What It Means for Your Azure Local Strategy
TierPoint’s newly minted Microsoft Solutions Partner designation for Private Cloud is more than a badge—it’s a structural signal that Microsoft’s hybrid cloud play is maturing, and that large...
First Tokenised Fundraise Completed on LSEG’s Azure-Powered Digital Markets Platform
The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has officially launched its Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI), a blockchain-powered platform built on Microsoft Azure, and it has already facilitated its...
Data-Safe AI in Ukraine: How 10 Tools Including Microsoft Copilot Are Reshaping CX
Ukrainian customer service teams are racing to adopt AI in 2025, but a detailed community-backed analysis warns that the real work begins after the vendor demos: piloting tools against actual ticket...
$14B Oracle, $5.3B AWS, and a 1.5GW AI Campus: Saudi Arabia’s Desert Data Center Tsunami
Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, and Equinix are pouring billions of dollars into Saudi Arabia’s deserts, transforming barren landscapes into the world’s newest hyperscale data center hub. With a...