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Microsoft and Google Are Advancing AI Assistants into Active, Context-Aware Agents

Microsoft is transforming Copilot into an opt-in, real-time problem solver across Outlook, Microsoft 365, and Windows 11, while Google prepares a phased rollout of its multi-device Gemini Intelligence ...
The Virginian-Pilot

Norfolk employee accused of selling 50+ phones using police funds, another delivered DoorDash in city truck

Two Norfolk employees were charged in separate cases with embezzlement and misuse of public funds. One is accused of purchasing dozens of phones for Norfolk police that were found sold on Ebay. The ...

Most of the Global Workforce Still Gets Schedule Changes by Text. A New $17 Million Bet Wants to Fix That

Workplace communication platform Blink secures $17 million from Danny Meyer’s EHI fund to bring its app to frontline workers ...
Forbes

Your Employees Are Using AI Without Telling You. Now What

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. TerDawn DeBoe covers small business AI strategy and ROI measurement. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
Business Insider

Disney employees can use AI and earn Snapchat-style streaks — or risk hearing from their boss

Disney is encouraging its employees to use AI with milestone badges and check-in messages. Staffers are using the company's AI Adoption Dashboard to see how they stack up to their peers. One software ...
The Verge

Google employees ask Sundar Pichai to say no to classified military AI use

After a report that Google is in talks with the Pentagon, hundreds of employees signed a letter against the idea. After a report that Google is in talks with the Pentagon, hundreds of employees ...

Smart Professionals Are Connecting Claude AI to Excel

Explore the features and limitations of the Claude Excel add-in. Integrate Gmail, automate financial modeling, and convert ...
The Washington Post

Google workers petition CEO to refuse classified AI work with Pentagon

SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of Google employees sent a letter to the company’s CEO on Monday demanding that he bar the Pentagon from using Google’s artificial intelligence for classified work, two months ...
The New York Times

Meta’s Embrace of A.I. Is Making Its Employees Miserable

As it adapts to the artificial intelligence era, the company is pushing many of its 78,000 workers to use the technology, and preparing to lay some of them off. Credit...Doug Chayka Supported by By ...
Business Insider

Amazon pushes AI use and closely tracks adoption, as some employees push back

Amazon's retail business is closely tracking how often software engineers use AI and how that influences output, all while navigating resistance from parts of its workforce. An internal document ...
Seattle Times

Mayor Katie Wilson lifts restrictions on city employees’ AI use

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson will allow city workers to use an artificial-intelligence assistant as part of their daily work, she said Monday, lifting a pause on the technology that she put in place ...
ZDNet

Microsoft just added AI agents to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint - how to use them

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