agentic ai

Microsoft Build 2026 is scheduled for June 2–3, 2026, at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and online, with Satya Nadella opening the conference at 10 a.m. Pacific on June 2 before an audience Microsoft is explicitly narrowing around AI developers, technical leaders, and enterprise builders...

Simplilearn and IIT Patna’s Vishlesan I-Hub Foundation launched a 10-week Professional Certificate Program in Agentic AI and Multi-Agent AI Systems on June 1, 2026, delivered online from India through live virtual classes for technology and product professionals. The announcement is more than...

Microsoft is reportedly building a unified “super app” for Copilot that would combine coding assistance, workplace chat, collaborative agents, and internal automation tools into one product experience, with elements potentially referenced around Build and a launch target by the end of summer...

Microsoft is reportedly building an unreleased Copilot “super app” that would combine chat, GitHub Copilot coding help, Copilot Cowork, and a new agentic Autopilot layer, with a leaked Sources screenshot dated May 30, 2026 showing a proactive Scout agent inside the interface. The immediate story...

Microsoft Copilot Tasks is a preview-era agentic AI feature for Copilot that lets Microsoft’s assistant plan, browse, schedule, and carry out user-directed tasks across web and app contexts, with availability still rolling out through signed-in Copilot experiences and related Windows Insider...

Microsoft made Copilot Studio’s computer-use agents generally available across commercial Power Platform geographies on May 13, 2026, turning a formerly preview-grade AI automation feature into a production service for enterprises that need agents to operate graphical applications without APIs...

For the week ending May 23, 2026, real-time analytics vendors clustered their announcements around agentic AI, governed data pipelines, private infrastructure, and edge deployment, with Dell Technologies World in Las Vegas providing the loudest signal that enterprise AI is moving from pilots...

Microsoft’s Yusuf Mehdi, a 35-year company veteran and its head of product marketing for AI and Copilot, plans to work through Microsoft’s next fiscal year on Windows, Microsoft 365 services, and “One Copilot” before leaving the company. His transition lands at exactly the wrong—or perhaps...

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, plans to leave Microsoft after the 2026–27 fiscal year, after spending his final year helping reshape Windows for what the company calls the agentic era. That phrasing matters more than the retirement notice...

Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s longtime consumer marketing chief and one of the most visible executives behind Windows, Bing, Surface, Xbox, and Copilot, is leaving the company after 35 years while staying through the next fiscal year to help steer Windows toward Microsoft’s agentic AI vision. That...

Microsoft introduced agentic browsing for Microsoft Edge for Business on May 20, 2026, putting Copilot into a limited preview where it can navigate approved websites, fill forms, and complete multi-step browser workflows under IT policy control. The announcement is less about one flashy AI...

NTT DATA has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner focused on Azure, data engineering, cloud-native development and agentic AI, in a deal announced in May 2026, with closing subject to customary approvals and financial terms undisclosed. The...

OneStream on May 19, 2026 announced generally available agentic AI capabilities for corporate finance, including a Finance Agentic Layer that lets its governed OneStream data and agents interoperate with external AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. The announcement is less...

Microsoft on May 20, 2026, announced RAMPART and Clarity, two open source AI safety tools aimed at helping developers test agent behavior in CI pipelines and examine product assumptions before implementation, as enterprise agents gain access to email, CRM records, code execution, and business...

NTT DATA announced on May 18, 2026, from Plano, Texas, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner focused on agentic AI, Azure AI, data engineering, and cloud-native enterprise application development. The transaction is less a...

NTT DATA announced on May 15, 2026, from Plano, Texas, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a California-based Microsoft partner specializing in agentic AI, Azure cloud development, data engineering, and enterprise application modernization. The deal is not just another...

Novo Nordisk said on May 19, 2026, that it has deployed an internal Azure-based reasoning agent built with Microsoft to help researchers run exploratory clinical analyses in minutes rather than weeks across its governed research data estate. The claim is not that a chatbot has discovered the...

NTT DATA announced on May 18, 2026, that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire WinWire, a Santa Clara-based Microsoft partner specializing in Azure AI, data engineering, cloud-native development, and agentic AI for enterprise customers. The deal is less a routine services roll-up than...

Verint announced on May 19, 2026, in Melville, New York, that its Calabrio Workforce Management platform has earned Microsoft’s Solutions Partner with certified software designation for Healthcare AI and Financial Services AI, positioning the contact-center workforce tool more tightly inside...

Digitate said on May 19, 2026, that its ignio platform has earned Microsoft’s Solutions Partner with certified software designation for Azure, including certified software recognition across Azure, Retail AI, Manufacturing AI, and Financial Services AI categories. The announcement is not merely...