agentic systems

In a frank, forward-looking post published on March 12, 2026, Microsoft’s Richard Riley argued that the next wave of enterprise transformation is not simply another UI fad or a new copilot widget — it’s a deeper rearchitecture of work around intent. Rather than forcing people to learn yet...

Marc Kermisch’s central prescription for enterprise AI is disarmingly simple: stop treating generative AI like a finished product and start treating it like a new, junior employee who needs onboarding, coaching, and measurement. That framing—delivered on the CAIO Connect podcast and amplified in...

Mustafa Suleyman’s blunt timeline—“most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months”—is not a fringe prediction: it came from the CEO of Microsoft AI in an interview this week and has immediately reshaped how policy makers, corporate boards, and knowledge...

The AI era is not merely another technological phase; it is a structural shift that is already remaking how societies produce value, organize labor, and design institutions. last two decades produced a familiar progression: industrial productivity lifted output by mechanizing physical labor...

Satya Nadella’s New Year note arrives as a concise but consequential provocation: AI must stop being admired for raw capability and start proving its worth as reliable systems that amplify human judgment, not replace it. In a short essay published on his personal “sn scratchpad” blog and rapidly...

Satya Nadella opened 2026 with a short, intentionally provocative personal post that reframes the industry conversation around generative AI — urging people to stop debating “slop versus sophistication,” to treat AI as a cognitive amplifier, and to accelerate the move from isolated models to...

Microsoft’s Research team has quietly released Fara‑7B, a compact but capable on‑device agentic model that sees your screen, predicts mouse and keyboard actions, and executes multi‑step web tasks locally on Windows, marking a deliberate shift from cloud‑first assistant designs toward private...

2026 is the year AI stopped being a collection of point experiments and became an operational layer that organizations must plan for — a shift from curiosity-driven pilots to enterprise-scale deployments driven by large capital investments in compute, new agentic runtimes, and an insistence on...

The calendar year 2025 did more than accelerate an already fast-moving technology trend — it ruptured assumptions about how artificial intelligence would enter the critical infrastructure of economies, politics, work and security, and forced a new question to the foreground: what does practical...

OpenAI’s recent product moves — a new GPT‑5.1 release with split “Instant” and “Thinking” behaviors, developer primitives that let models enact changes, and mass‑market features such as Sora 2 for text‑to‑video — amount to more than incremental capability gains; they are already forcing a...

The five hard questions every process leader must answer about AI in 2026 distill into a single practical test: can your organisation bring data, controls, people and measurable outcomes into alignment before scaled, agentic AI begins to make decisions that matter? The Process Excellence Network...

Mining is at a crossroads: surging demand for critical minerals, tightening sustainability rules, and persistent talent shortages mean incremental change won’t be enough — the industry needs a new operating model built around AI, agents, and deliberate organizational change. Background The...

Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic’s three‑way pact reshaped the week’s real‑time analytics and enterprise AI headlines, anchoring Anthropic’s Claude family to Microsoft Azure at massive scale while bringing NVIDIA into a deep co‑engineering and investment role — moves that promise to change how...

Microsoft’s Ignite keynote pushed Azure from platform to operational partner, unveiling a sweeping set of AI-first infrastructure upgrades and the arrival of agentic operations through Azure Copilot—an ecosystem designed to put purpose-built AI agents at the center of migration, deployment...

EPAM’s win of Microsoft’s 2025 Innovate with Azure AI Platform Partner of the Year award marks a significant validation of the systems‑integrator model for enterprise generative AI: the company’s entry — built on Azure AI Foundry and realized in a production deployment for Dutch grocer Albert...

Microsoft’s vision for an “agentic web” — sketched in a TechSparks 2025 masterclass by Salim Naim, Director of AI at Microsoft Asia — frames the current AI moment as a platform transition from static pages and app-centric workflows to autonomous, intent-driven agents that act, negotiate and...

Frontier firms are not just adopting AI — they are reorganizing around it, turning generative models, agentic systems, and custom copilots into strategic assets that change how products are built, how customers are served, and how decisions are made at scale. Microsoft’s recent blog post...

Microsoft’s push to turn Dynamics 365 from a passive system of record into an active system of action marks a clear shift in enterprise software: business applications are being rebuilt as agentic systems that continuously monitor, reason over governed data, and take outcomes-oriented actions on...

When Visa and Microsoft convened in Lagos for the Microsoft AI Skills Week Hackathon, it marked more than just another tech event. It was a strategic declaration: harnessing generative AI and agentic technologies will define the future of Nigeria’s booming fintech sector. As global leaders in...

Microsoft has once again made waves in the artificial intelligence community by unveiling AutoGen v0.4, a major evolution of its innovative framework aimed at pushing the boundaries of agentic AI. This release reimagines the very foundation of agent-based systems with a focus on scale...