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When software adds a new priority and asks the customer to absorb the cost.
The UK’s competition regulator has required Google to give publishers ways to opt out of AI-search uses and to properly attribute publisher content in AI-generated results.
Microsoft’s AI-everywhere strategy gave its own customers a new word for software decay. The nickname is crude. The product lesson is not.
GitHub publishes DMCA notices and says Copilot’s training on public repositories is lawful. Developers still have to ask who gets attribution when an assistant reproduces familiar code.
Microsoft’s SSMS integration promises an assistant inside a serious database tool. The official docs also read like a map of the setup, authentication and context failures users have to debug first.
As ChatGPT moved toward advertising in 2026, the promise of a neutral assistant collided with the oldest platform incentive: turn attention into inventory.
As enterprise AI vendors move from fixed plans to usage-based pricing, switching models can mean rewriting prompts, workflows and budgets at the same time.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority is investigating whether Microsoft’s business-software ecosystem has strategic market status, including whether bundling, defaults and interoperability limit customer choice.
The UK Competition and Markets Authority identified data-egress fees and interoperability barriers that make cloud switching and multi-cloud use harder, prompting commitments from Amazon and Microsoft.