Microsoft Ignite 2025  runs November 18-21, 2025, in San Francisco, with an optional pre-day on November 17. Can’t make it to the Moscone Center in San Francisco? No problem. It’s a hybrid event, and you can register to attend Ignite (for free) virtually here. You can expect to learn more about AI, cloud computing, security, productivity

IT purchasers must brace themselves for potential price hikes on new equipment as memory price increases percolate across supply chains. That’s a double-whammy cost crisis, of course, as they must also get set for energy price increases as demand rises to serve electricity-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) farms.  AI also means that even Apple is increasing the amount

Once upon a time, when you ran Windows on your desktop, it was your desktop. Oh, the IT department might have called the shots on how much you could do with it, but you could write what you needed to, and it was all kept nicely on your PC or your choice of network drive.  Those days

Enterprise AI deployment faces a fundamental tension: organisations need sophisticated language models but baulk at the infrastructure costs and energy consumption of frontier systems. NTT’s recent launch of tsuzumi 2, a lightweight large language model (LLM) running on a single GPU, demonstrates how businesses are resolving this constraint – with early deployments showing performance matching

Many organisations are trying to update their infrastructure to improve efficiency and manage rising costs. But the path is rarely simple. Hybrid setups, legacy systems, and new demands from AI in the enterprise often create trade-offs for IT teams. Recent moves by Microsoft and several storage and data-platform vendors highlight how enterprises are trying to

Choosing the right thermal binoculars is essential for security professionals and outdoor specialists who need reliable long-range detection. Many users who previously relied on the market’s best night vision binoculars now seek advanced thermal imaging for superior clarity, extended range, and weather-independent performance. In 2026, ATN continues to lead the market with cutting-edge thermal binoculars

The Royal Navy is handing the first line of its recruitment operations to a real-time AI avatar called Atlas. Atlas is powered by a large language model and has been deployed to field questions from prospective submariners. The deployment shows how AI can support a shift from slow text-based triage to fast and immersive automated

digital twins of real audiences — that accurately predict how people will react to products, campaigns, and ideas in minutes at 90% lower cost. SEATTLE, Nov. 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — BluePill, the AI platform building “AI consumers” to replace traditional market research, today announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding led by Ubiquity Ventures, with participation from Pioneer Square Labs and Flying

New integrations bring Zendesk’s AI-driven support directly into Microsoft 365, driving efficiency, security, and control for IT, HR, and Finance teams Zendesk, a pioneer in AI-powered service, has deepened its long-standing collaboration with Microsoft to bring Zendesk’s service directly into Microsoft’s AI ecosystem through two new integrations: Microsoft Agent 365, and Zendesk Agent for Microsoft

Fusion integration will enable faster, more governed data transformation for analytics and AI workloads dbt Labs, a leader in standards for AI-ready structured data, today announced the expansion of the dbt Fusion engine ecosystem with a new native integration in Fabric Data Factory. The integration, which builds on a longstanding collaboration with Microsoft, will allow