agentic ai

Today’s shift in how enterprises think about AI is no longer hypothetical: Microsoft has launched a dedicated conversation series called The Shift — an evolution of “Leading the Shift” — that zeroes in on one of the fastest-moving fronts in enterprise AI today: agentic AI. The new podcast...

Microsoft has taken a major step toward making “Frontier Transformation” — the company’s phrase for large‑scale, agentic AI adoption across enterprises — feel operationally realistic for CIOs and CISOs by announcing Agent 365 as a unified control plane for AI agents and a new Microsoft 365 E7...

Microsoft’s latest push to turn AI assistants from curiosities into billable, governable “digital coworkers” lands at the intersection of product strategy, licensing economics, and enterprise risk management—and it’s already reshaping the argument over who owns the context that will make agentic...

Wise’s short briefing is more than a fintech vendor’s thought piece; it’s a practical roadmap that places agentic AI, governance and payments into a single business narrative for 2026 — and it should make every IT, finance and operations leader pause, plan and act. The company argues that the...

Microsoft’s latest threat briefing — published March 6, 2026 — and a follow-up interview on March 8, 2026, make a blunt, unglossed point: attackers are already using agentic AI to outsource the tedious but mission‑critical work of running cyber campaigns, and that shift changes how defenders...

Sonata Software’s new Frontier Partner badge with Microsoft is less a marketing ribbon and more a signal of how hyperscalers are reshaping the services market: partners that can stitch Copilot, agentic architectures, and enterprise-grade Azure plumbing into repeatable products are being...

Agentic AI is no longer a thought experiment; it’s a practical toolset that — in 2026 — can research and buy things for you, manage calendars and projects, work on your local machine, nudge your finances, and run your home. The recent AOL primer that outlined “5 ways AI agents can help” captures...

Simplilearn’s new Applied Agentic AI: Systems, Design & Impact program, created in collaboration with Microsoft, is a concentrated 10-week, cohort-based pathway that promises to train product managers, tech leaders, and designers to design, build, and operate multi‑agent, autonomous AI systems...

Microsoft’s community event calendar has quietly shifted from demo-stage optimism to a much more urgent, practical conversation: how to take Copilot and agentic AI out of pilot projects and make them reliable, secure, and measurable parts of day‑to‑day work. The Microsoft 365 Community...

A quietly explosive piece of software went public this week and — within days — forced a debate that has been simmering for years to the front page of higher-education conversations: an AI called Einstein, built by a startup named Companion, claims it can log into a student’s Canvas account...

Microsoft's new Copilot Tasks flips the script on conversational assistants: instead of waiting for you to ask how to do something, it quietly does the work for you in the cloud and hands you the results. Background Microsoft revealed Copilot Tasks in a research preview at the end of February...

Microsoft’s newest move with Copilot Tasks signals a clear shift: AI is no longer meant only for conversation and creation — it’s being positioned to quietly do the heavy lifting in the background, planning and executing multi-step work on your behalf while you focus on higher-value activities...

Microsoft’s new Copilot Tasks marks a deliberate pivot from conversational assistants to autonomous, scheduled work — a cloud‑first agent that does rather than just answers. Announced on February 26, 2026, as a research preview, Copilot Tasks runs in its own sandboxed cloud environment with a...

Weatherbys’ move to rebuild the engines that run horse racing and animal genomics on Microsoft’s Power Platform represents one of the clearest examples yet of a heritage business using modern low‑code tooling to resolve decades‑old technical debt while keeping custodial responsibilities — like...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a decisive step beyond chat: with the new Copilot Tasks research preview, the company is offering an agentic AI that will plan, act, and return results on multi‑step work you describe in plain English — and you can now join a public waitlist to try it. Background /...

The telecom industry’s architectural debate over where intelligence should live in the network just got a new referee: Questex’s Fierce Network TV (FNTV) 2026 Networked Agentic AI Index, published on February 26, 2026, and timed to land on the doorstep of MWC26 in Barcelona. The report crowns...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken the next step from conversation to completion: today’s announcement of Copilot Tasks marks a deliberate pivot from chat-first AI to agentic, action-oriented automation that runs scheduled, recurring, and one-off workflows on your behalf — browsing, coordinating...

I arrived at the India AI Impact Summit with the same blend of curiosity and professional caution you feel when a familiar toolset suddenly doubles as a potential competitor: excited about what automation could free me from, and worried about what it would demand I become. The problem on the...

Symmetry Systems’ new Symmetry AIGuard brings a single-pane-of-glass approach to a problem that has become painfully obvious across enterprises in 2026: AI is proliferating faster than organizations can govern it, and shadow models, internal services, enterprise copilots, and autonomous...

Financial institutions are moving from pilot projects to production with cloud‑hosted, agentic AI systems — and the shift is already changing how banks manage customer conversations, underwriting, fraud detection, and internal workflows. Background Cloud platforms have long been the backbone of...