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31 posts across AI, Microsoft 365, and the IT Channel
The 90-minute ultimatum that took the world's most powerful AI offline
On Friday 12 June, Anthropic had 90 minutes to fix a security flaw in Claude Fable 5 or take it offline. By 10pm it was gone. It came back this morning. The 19 days in between are worth understanding.
The model running your Copilot demo might not be OpenAI
Anthropic's Claude is now the default model inside Microsoft 365 Copilot for Excel and PowerPoint. The product you've been selling as Microsoft AI includes a model from a company that isn't Microsoft. The channel pitch needs updating.
SpaceX goes public. The pitch isn't what you think.
SpaceX hit the Nasdaq today as the largest IPO in history. You'd be forgiven for thinking it's a rocket company. A significant chunk of the investment case is actually about building AI data centres in space. Yes, in space.
Microsoft and NVIDIA just bet the AI PC future on RTX Spark
At Microsoft Build last week, Microsoft and NVIDIA announced RTX Spark: a superchip with 128GB of unified memory and a petaflop of on-device AI compute. Worth paying attention to, even if you're not in the market for new hardware right now.
Robopack, Winget, PSADT — how I think about app packaging for Intune now
App packaging for Intune has always been a time sink. Robopack changes that calculation significantly. Here's how I'm thinking about the options in mid-2025.
Building my first AI-powered app: what I learned as a non-ML developer
I built this website using Next.js, AWS, and Claude. I'm not a developer by trade. Here's an honest account of what that process was like and what surprised me.
M365 Copilot a year on: admin reality vs the sales pitch
Microsoft 365 Copilot went GA in November 2023. We're now well past the initial excitement. Here's an honest account of what it's actually like to deploy and manage.
Claude 3.7 and the rise of agentic AI — this is the inflection point
Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet in February 2025 with extended thinking mode. Combined with the MCP protocol, something important just shifted.
Windows 11 migrations: the real blockers in enterprise
Windows 10 support ends in October 2025. Enterprise migrations to Windows 11 are progressing, but more slowly than Microsoft would like. Here's why.
DeepSeek just changed the economics of AI. What it means for enterprise
DeepSeek R1 arrived in January 2025 and sent the AI industry into a brief panic. The dust has settled. Here's what actually happened and what it means for enterprise AI strategy.
RAG, agents, and the AI stack: making sense of it for non-ML people
The AI vocabulary has expanded rapidly and it's easy to feel lost. Here's a practical guide to the concepts that actually matter for IT professionals.
Entra ID (Azure AD) rename confusion: a practical guide for admins
Microsoft renamed Azure Active Directory to Microsoft Entra ID in July 2023. A year on, the confusion is still real. Here's the practical guide to navigating the rebrand.