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Matric 2025: AI-Powered Revision Strategies Every South African Student Can Use
South Africa's matric class of 2025 is rewriting the revision playbook—with artificial intelligence. As the National Senior Certificate (NSC) exams approach, students are tapping generative AI...
How the House Reversed Its Copilot Ban: A Blueprint for Secure AI in Government
The U.S. House of Representatives has lifted its year-old prohibition on Microsoft Copilot and will begin deploying the generative AI tool to members and staff under strict data-protection terms,...
AnywhereNow Targets U.S. and Canada with Tendfor Investment, But Compliance Gaps Linger
On September 16, AnywhereNow announced a strategic investment in its subsidiary Tendfor, aiming to accelerate the adoption of its Teams-native contact center software across North America. The move...
81% of Aussie SMBs Paste Confidential Data Into Free AI Tools, HP Study Warns
A survey commissioned by HP and Microsoft has found that 81% of Australian small and medium businesses using free generative AI tools regularly submit confidential company information through them,...
Google's Alt+Space Overlay Brings Lens, AI Search to Windows. Here's How It Works and What to Watch For.
What’s New Google has released an experimental Windows app that places a compact, floating search bar at your fingertips. The tool, hosted in Google’s Search Labs, can be summoned anytime by...
Microsoft Copilot Can Generate Data Analysis Code – But It’s No Calculator
When Microsoft Copilot writes Python code to crunch your spreadsheet numbers, it delivers a computation, not a guarantee. That distinction, underscored by a recent spate of public demo errors and...
Two-Thirds of UK Students Use AI for Studies, and 23% Have Cheated, Survey Shows
A sweeping new YouGov survey of 1,027 UK undergraduates reveals that artificial intelligence has become a mainstream study tool, but its misuse is alarmingly widespread. Two-thirds of students now...
UK Trial Reveals Copilot's Productivity Promise Fails to Materialize, While ChatGPT Projects Go Free
A major UK government evaluation of Microsoft Copilot has concluded that, despite high user satisfaction and some time savings on routine tasks, the AI assistant does not deliver clear productivity...
AWS Startups VP Jon Jones Exits, Exposing Cracks in Cloud Giant's AI Talent Defense
Amazon Web Services’ vice president of global startups and venture capital outreach, Jon Jones, has left the company, marking the latest high-level departure from the cloud leader amid an...
Windows 11 Insider Builds Add Full-Screen Subscription Reminder, Sparking Adware Concerns
Microsoft is testing a full-screen renewal prompt in Windows 11 that appears when a Microsoft 365 subscription lapses, and early reactions from Insiders are far from welcoming. The new...
Pennsylvania Arms State Workers with Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise in Dual AI Rollout
Governor Josh Shapiro dropped a major AI update at the AI Horizons Summit in Pittsburgh, telling over 900 technology and business leaders that Pennsylvania is adding Microsoft Copilot to its existing...
£3.4M Fuels UK’s First Doctoral AI Network to Set Research Standards
A £3.4 million Research England Development Fund award will power a four-year project to map how publicly available AI tools are infiltrating doctoral research in the UK, with the twin goals of...