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Microsoft Begins Forced Copilot Installs as Nadella Warns of 'Messy' AI Overhaul
Microsoft has started automatically installing its Copilot artificial intelligence assistant on Windows 10 and 11 PCs equipped with Microsoft 365 desktop applications, a move that coincides with CEO...
Microsoft's $3.3B AI Factory Packs 10x Supercomputer Speed—What It Means for Your Cloud Workloads
Microsoft this week pulled the curtain back on Fairwater, a $3.3 billion AI campus in Wisconsin that CEO Satya Nadella says will deliver 10 times the performance of today’s fastest supercomputer...
Fairwater AI Datacenter: Microsoft’s $7B Bet on 10X Supercomputer Performance
On September 18, 2025, Microsoft confirmed it will pour an additional $4 billion into building a second AI datacenter in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin—more than doubling its investment in the site to...
Gaming Copilot Is Now in Windows Game Bar: Here’s How to Use Microsoft’s AI Assistant Today
Microsoft began rolling out the Gaming Copilot beta to Windows PCs on September 18, 2025. The assistant lives inside the Xbox Game Bar overlay, ready to answer voice questions, analyze screenshots,...
AI’s Uneven March: Anthropic Index Maps Global Gaps as Microsoft Adds Claude to Copilot
Anthropic dropped a trove of real-world AI usage data on September 15, mapping where and how people across 150 countries use its Claude assistant—and the picture is one of breakneck adoption...
Microsoft's Options Market Just Raised a Quiet Red Flag. Here's Why Every Windows User Should Pay Attention
Microsoft shares barely flinched on the session tracked by market analysts, shedding just $0.66 to close near $509.36. Yet beneath the surface, something more telling played out: roughly 204,000...
Microsoft's Wisconsin AI Factory: How 72-GPU Racks and Liquid Cooling Could Supercharge the Cloud
On September 18, 2025, Microsoft revealed Fairwater—a 315-acre AI datacenter campus in Wisconsin that is more silicon foundry than server farm. Each rack inside holds 72 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs...
UK’s Largest AI Supercomputer: Nscale, Microsoft, NVIDIA Plan 23,040-GPU Campus
Nscale, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and OpenAI have unveiled plans for the UK’s largest AI supercomputer—a 23,040-GPU campus in Loughton, Essex—alongside a sovereign compute platform called Stargate UK....
Inside the £11B Plan to Put 120,000 AI GPUs on UK Soil — and What It Means for Your Work
NVIDIA, Microsoft, OpenAI, and a coalition of infrastructure partners are making the largest-ever bet on UK-based AI compute: a sprawling programme that aims to deploy up to 120,000 NVIDIA...
Microsoft Accidentally Reveals 'Windows AI Labs' Program in Paint, but Backend Remains Offline
On September 18, some Windows 11 users encountered an unexpected pop-up in Microsoft Paint: "Try experimental AI features in Paint: Sign up for Windows AI Labs programme for Paint in Settings." The...
Your iPhone Copilot App Will Stop Editing Office Docs on September 15 – Here’s What You Must Do
Microsoft will disable all editing capabilities for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files inside its Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iPhone on September 15, 2025, forcing users to switch to the standalone...
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,...