agentic automation

Writer’s new Agent playbook is the clearest statement yet that some startups intend to move beyond “chat” and into automated, repeatable enterprise work — not by selling prettier chat windows, but by combining long‑context models, deep connectors, and no‑code automation so line‑of‑business users...

Microsoft’s rollout of Copilot Actions for Windows 11 — an experimental agentic feature that lets AI act on a user’s behalf to organize files, send emails, fill forms and automate multi‑step desktop tasks — has thrust a new class of security questions into the mainstream. The preview is being...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has graduated from an experimental authoring surface into a full‑throttle platform for “agentic” automation — a low‑code to pro‑code environment that lets organizations build, publish, govern and measure fleets of AI agents that act on behalf of people and teams across...

Microsoft’s latest push to make Copilot an operational partner — not just an assistant — marks a clear inflection point: Azure Copilot is being extended with a family of specialized agents and an orchestration layer that together promise to automate major parts of the cloud lifecycle for DevOps...

Microsoft’s latest Insider preview (Build 26220.7262, delivered as KB5070303) brings a focused but meaningful accessibility upgrade to Windows 11: Narrator can now read mathematical expressions in Microsoft Word in a structured, semantically aware way, and both Narrator and Magnifier gain...

Microsoft’s recent webinar framing “agentic Copilot solutions” — built with Copilot Studio and the Power Platform — signals a practical pivot: conversational AI is no longer only about drafting and summarizing, it’s being engineered to own end‑to‑end business tasks, monitor events, and act...

Microsoft’s marketing line — that Windows is “evolving into an agentic OS” — landed like a splash of cold water on long‑time users this week, triggering an unusually intense wave of online backlash that exposed a widening trust gap between Microsoft’s AI ambitions and what many people want from...

KPMG’s early-access collaboration with Microsoft to build an “Intelligent ERP” using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations reframes ERP from a passive ledger into a set of governed, agent-enabled services that can access, act and decide inside enterprise...

Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 team has pushed the Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for ERP from a narrow, tool-based prototype into a dynamic, analytics-ready runtime—a move that promises to make Dynamics 365 applications agent‑friendly, extensible, and more tightly governed. The company announced...

Microsoft’s move to fold research tooling and enterprise primitives into a single open‑source SDK — the Microsoft Agent Framework — marks a decisive moment in the shift from one‑off LLM assistants to durable, multi‑agent automation designed for real business workflows. The Agent Framework brings...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, arrives as an unmistakable attempt to give Microsoft’s assistant a friendly, expressive face for voice and learning interactions — a deliberately non‑human, blob‑like companion that listens, emotes, and even hides a cheeky Clippy easter egg for users who...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot updates push the assistant from a solo productivity helper into a shared, action-capable collaborator — adding group sessions, expanded automation, cross-account connectors, and one-click export to editable Office files in a Windows‑centred release that tightens the...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update pivots the operating system from a passive platform into an actively interactive “AI PC,” folding voice, vision and early agentic automation directly into the desktop with Copilot at the center of the experience. The rollout introduces an opt‑in wake...

Notion’s AI-powered workspace has moved from a promising add‑on to a full‑blown platform play — offering AI meeting notes, enterprise search, research drafting, model selection, and now agentic automation — and those changes explain why analysts and roundups named the Notion AI Workspace one of...

Microsoft’s Copilot on Windows has taken a decisive step from chat assistant to document workhorse: the Copilot app can now generate Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations and PDFs directly from a chat session, and it can link to personal email and cloud accounts so it can...

Google has launched Gemini Enterprise, a packaged, subscription-priced platform that wraps its most advanced Gemini models, a no-code/low-code agent workbench, prebuilt agents, and broad connectors into what the company calls the “front door” for AI in the workplace. Background / Overview Gemini...

Google has pushed its Gemini AI suite further into the enterprise ring with the formal launch of Gemini Enterprise, a packaged product meant to compete directly with Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Enterprise in the high-stakes world of corporate AI. The move bundles Google’s most...

Amazon Web Services has quietly stepped into the frontline of the enterprise AI agent race with Amazon Quick Suite, a new "agentic" workspace designed to pull together corporate data, automate repetitive tasks, and act as a virtual teammate for desk workers — all while under AWS’s security...

Google has escalated its enterprise AI push with a productized play for the workplace — packaging its Gemini model family, multimodal reasoning, and no‑/low‑code agent tooling into a subscription aimed squarely at Microsoft’s Copilot and the wider enterprise AI market. Background / Overview...

Perplexity has opened the door: its AI‑first browser, Comet, is now available for free to everyone on Windows and macOS, a major distribution shift that turns an expensive, invite‑only experiment into a mass‑market download while keeping premium automation and publisher‑access features behind...