agentic workflows

Overcut’s approach to agentic automation is a study in restraint: deliver autonomous, multi‑step workflows that actually fit inside enterprise operational boundaries rather than promising unbounded autonomy. The company builds its execution plane on Azure primitives—AKS for orchestration, Azure...

Microsoft’s cloud catalog expanded this week with the public‑preview arrival of two DeepSeek reasoning models — DeepSeek‑V3.2 and DeepSeek‑V3.2‑Speciale — a pair engineered for long‑horizon, agentic workflows and heavy multi‑step reasoning. The models are listed in Azure’s Foundry model catalog...

Harvard Business School’s Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) and Microsoft have recruited a high-profile cohort of 14 global companies to launch the Frontier Firm AI Initiative — a multi-year, field‑based research and executive upskilling programme designed to turn human-led, agent‑operated AI...

AI is turning Excel from a gatekept specialist tool into a practical, learnable application—one where novices can move from confusion to confident analysis in a fraction of the time previously required. Overview The last two years have seen a rapid infusion of generative and context-aware AI...

Microsoft has pushed a first public look at Visual Studio 2026 — billed internally as Visual Studio 18 and distributed through a new "Insiders" channel — and the headline is simple: Microsoft has folded much deeper AI into the IDE while polishing the look, settings, and model control surface...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio has reached a new milestone for AI-assisted development: Model Context Protocol (MCP) support is now generally available in the IDE, enabling developers to plug Copilot and other agentic tools directly into local and remote services with first-class configuration...

The annual Build 2025 conference marked a pivotal moment in Microsoft’s evolving AI strategy for Windows. At the heart of the announcements was a commitment to transform Windows into a seamlessly AI-integrated ecosystem, with a particular focus on democratizing access to the machine learning...