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Infosys’ new AI Agent for the energy sector marks a conspicuous push to marry enterprise-grade agentic AI with cloud-scale operations — a packaged solution that combines Infosys Topaz, Infosys Cobalt, and Microsoft’s Copilot and Azure AI Foundry capabilities to convert real‑time operational...

Microsoft has begun rolling out a new era of “vibe working” inside Microsoft 365 by introducing two complementary agent features—Agent Mode embedded in Office canvases (Word and Excel) and a chat‑first Office Agent surfaced from Microsoft 365 Copilot—that decompose plain‑English briefs into...

WhatsApp’s long-awaited wrist presence, OpenAI’s new agentic security researcher and Microsoft’s latest Copilot personality together mark a notable week in AI and mobile messaging — a trio of releases that push convenience, automation and agentic thinking forward while reopening familiar...

Infosys’ newly announced AI Agent for energy operations is a calculated attempt to move agentic generative AI from proof‑of‑concept demos into production workflows for drilling, pipelines, power generation and field maintenance, promising conversational multimodal analysis, automated reporting...

Decagon’s pitch is simple but consequential: replace brittle, one-size-fits-all chatbots with an always-on, concierge-grade AI agent that reasons across systems, executes workflows, and learns from every interaction — and do it in a way that business teams can own. The company’s Agent Operating...

Microsoft’s placement as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for CRM Customer Engagement Center marks a consequential moment for enterprise customer service: the vendor’s product strategy has moved from incremental AI assistant features to a deliberate, agentic-service play built...

Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio roadmap makes one thing clear: the IDE’s next act is an aggressive shift from assistant-style suggestions to agentic, context-aware automation that can plan, act, and persist across the entire software lifecycle — and Microsoft is explicitly wiring the platform...

OpenAI’s new "agent mode" marks a decisive step toward making ChatGPT not just a conversational assistant but an active, autonomous collaborator that can research, plan, and execute multi-step tasks on behalf of users — a capability now rolling out in stages to paid subscribers and integrated...

AI agents are moving from niche productivity tools to enterprise-grade collaborators, and as GitHub’s new Agent HQ promises to centralize and orchestrate third‑party coding agents, the balance between developer velocity and brand confidentiality has become urgent and precarious. Background AI...

Microsoft has moved a decisive step beyond “answering” and into controlled action: the Researcher agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot can now use a permissioned “Computer Use” capability to spin up an ephemeral, Windows 365–backed virtual computer, log into gated sites with your consent, run short...

Microsoft’s move to give its Researcher agent a permissioned “Computer Use” capability — effectively a temporary, Microsoft‑hosted virtual computer the agent can operate to browse, sign in, click, type and even run short command‑line tests — marks the next practical stage in agentic AI: not just...

Microsoft and its partner ecosystem are quietly turning Dynamics 365 from a passive ledger into an agentic record-to-report engine — embedding AI agents that automate reconciliation, variance analysis, time & expense processing, and even customer-facing payment replies, with the stated goal of...

Neudesic’s new Digital Workforce Management offering promises to treat AI agents as first‑class “digital employees,” provisioning, orchestrating and governing fleets of autonomous and semi‑autonomous agents on Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry while extending Neudesic’s system integrator expertise...

Digital identity has quietly moved from an abstract security concept to the plumbing of everyday life — and with that elevation has come a stark trade‑off: convenience versus control. The technology that lets services remember us, let agents act for us, and let machines prove a human exists is...

When an industry veteran says “identity is the new perimeter,” they mean more than a slogan — they mean a strategic pivot that should already be reshaping every security program, architecture review, and boardroom risk discussion. In a recent interview reported by IT Brief New Zealand, James...

Satya Nadella’s latest annual letter frames Microsoft’s future as an all-purpose engine for AI-powered work — a bet stitched together from Azure’s scale, Copilot’s distribution, a new Foundry for models and agents, massive datacenter investments, and a company-wide security push — and while the...

Microsoft’s Azure and Collective Artists Network’s Galleri5 have announced a strategic collaboration that places cloud-scale AI at the center of a new production playbook for Indian filmmaking and serialized storytelling, with the partnership explicitly tying Galleri5’s creator‑tech studio to...

Microsoft Azure and India’s Collective Artists Network (through its creator‑tech studio Galleri5) have launched Azure AI CineLabs, a joint program positioning Microsoft’s Azure AI stack as the production backbone for a slate of AI‑enabled film, episodic and short‑form projects — a move that...

Collective Artists Network and Microsoft have announced a strategic collaboration that stakes a claim at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, generative AI, and mainstream entertainment in India — a move that promises to accelerate AI-assisted filmmaking, episodic storytelling, advertising...

The enterprise automation story that began with rules, scheduled jobs and single-step RPA has taken a decisive turn: intelligent, multi-step AI agents are now being woven into the fabric of business operations, and a new operational discipline — AgentOps — is emerging to manage, govern and...