agentic ai

Amadeus and Microsoft released a new airline-focused agentic AI whitepaper on June 4, 2026, arguing that airlines can now deploy AI agents across rebooking, commerce, marketing, turnaround management, and customer experience rather than merely experiment with them. The claim is not that aviation...

Microsoft and its telecom partners are pitching “Frontier Firms” as AI-first organizations that will embed agents across daily operations by 2028, with telcos including Vodafone, T-Mobile, Lumen, and PLDT presented as early examples of the shift. The argument is not simply that carriers can...

Lloyds Banking Group is preparing to deploy Microsoft 365 E7, Microsoft’s “AI Frontier Suite,” across the company under a multi-year agreement that follows its rollout of 40,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licences and expanded GitHub Copilot use among more than 10,000 engineers. The move is not just...

Lloyds Banking Group has signed a multi-year agreement to deploy Microsoft 365 E7, Microsoft’s AI-focused “Frontier Suite,” across the bank after already rolling out 40,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot licences and extending GitHub Copilot to more than 10,000 engineers. The deal is more than another...

New Relic used Microsoft Build 2026 in San Francisco this week to highlight a 14-year Microsoft partnership, new Azure and GitHub integrations, and double-digit year-over-year growth in committed bookings through Microsoft Azure Marketplace for the 12 months ending March 31, 2026. The...

Hyland has partnered with Microsoft to make Hyland Content Innovation Cloud available on Microsoft Azure and through Microsoft Marketplace, expanding deployment options for enterprise customers that need governed content services across regions, regulated industries, and cloud environments as AI...

Suralink announced on June 3, 2026, that it is expanding its accounting-focused agentic AI platform with new integrations for Microsoft Copilot and Anthropic’s Claude, positioning its request-list, workpaper, audit-data, and financial-statement tools inside the AI assistants firms already use...

Suralink is positioning its accounting workflow platform as an agentic AI system for firms and clients, expanding from request-list management into AI-assisted document prescreening, testing, workpaper preparation, and review during 2025 and 2026. The company’s pitch is not that accountants need...

Microsoft used the opening day of Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2 to put Azure HorizonDB into public preview and to expose Web IQ, the web-grounding layer it says already supports Copilot and ChatGPT. The announcement is not just another database launch dressed in AI language. It is...

Suralink announced on June 3, 2026, from Salt Lake City that it is expanding its agentic AI platform for accounting firms with five new agents, a cloud testing suite, Workpaper Suite Intelligence, and native integrations with Microsoft Copilot and Anthropic’s Claude. The announcement is less...

The University of Leicester has announced a Microsoft collaboration to provide full Microsoft 365 Copilot access to more than 21,000 students and 4,000 staff, making it one of the first UK universities to deploy the AI assistant across an entire academic community. The move is not just another...

Microsoft enters Build week in San Francisco with a redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot, a unified Copilot organization announced in March 2026, and a partner strategy that increasingly depends on firms such as Sonata Software to turn AI infrastructure into working enterprise systems. The timing...

Nvidia and Microsoft used Microsoft Build 2026 to expand their AI partnership into a unified stack spanning Windows PCs, deskside DGX systems, Azure infrastructure, Microsoft Foundry, and Nvidia’s model and runtime software for agentic AI workloads. The announcement is not merely another GPU...

Microsoft is pitching an integrated “agentic enterprise” platform that ties GitHub, Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft IQ, Agent 365, Entra, Purview, Defender, Fabric, Teams, and Microsoft 365 into a governed system for building, running, securing, and improving AI agents across business operations...

Microsoft made Microsoft Discovery generally available on June 2, 2026, and BHP says it has already used the Azure-based agentic AI platform to screen more than 500,000 possible copper-leaching reagents for a mining problem central to the energy transition. That is the plain fact. The more...

At Microsoft Build 2026, Microsoft Digital, the company’s internal IT organization, said it is expanding its “Customer Zero” agentic AI program to help Microsoft employees and developers build governed AI agents across Copilot Studio, Work IQ, Agent 365, Azure DevOps, and Model Context Protocol...

GitHub made its standalone GitHub Copilot app available in technical preview on May 14, 2026, for Windows, macOS, and Linux, giving paid Copilot users a desktop command center for agent-driven development outside the traditional IDE. The timing is not accidental: Microsoft opened Build 2026 on...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco and online on June 2 to make Microsoft IQ generally available across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Copilot Studio, positioning it as an enterprise intelligence layer for data, context, agents, and governance. The announcement is not just...

Microsoft used Build 2026 on June 2, 2026, to frame Windows, GitHub, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Foundry, Rayfin, HorizonDB and its IQ context layers as one operating platform for building, running and governing agentic AI systems. The pitch was not merely that Microsoft has more AI features. It was...

Microsoft announced Aion 1.0 Instruct and Aion 1.0 Plan at Build 2026 on June 2, positioning the new on-device small language models as part of a broader Windows 11 push to run AI workloads locally across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs. The announcement is not just another model drop in a season full of...