ISDI’s new partnership with Microsoft turns generative AI from classroom theory into a tangible career asset for Executive MBA students, embedding agent-building and Copilot-powered workflows directly into the school’s flagship MIB program so graduates leave with a trained, exportable AI agent...
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Satya Nadella’s blunt admission — “we can do better, and we will do better” — landed in the middle of a turbulent week for Microsoft, one in which leadership is publicly reinforcing an “AI‑first” execution tempo even as tens of thousands of employees and broad swathes of the tech press ask...
Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just surprise the market — it rewrote the playbook for what a legacy enterprise software company can become in an AI-first world. Background
For two decades Oracle was best known as a database and enterprise-software stalwart slowly adapting to a cloud-first world...
Microsoft’s free, 12-lesson GitHub course on building AI agents offers a practical, hands-on primer that packages Microsoft tooling, agent design patterns, and runnable code into a single, modular learning path—making it one of the most accessible entry points for developers and IT professionals...
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Microsoft has confirmed that OneNote for Windows 10—the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app preinstalled on many Windows 10 machines—will be retired on October 14, 2025, and will switch to a read-only state after that date, meaning you will still be able to view content but will not be able to...
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OpenAI’s backing of a feature-length, largely AI-created animated film called Critterz has jolted the animation world: the project — expanding a 2023 AI-made short into a Cannes-bound feature — explicitly uses OpenAI tools (including GPT-5 and the Sora video model) and a dramatically reduced...
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USA TODAY's decision to run every Week 1 matchup through Microsoft Copilot produced a tidy, headline-friendly slate of predictions — and a revealing window into how modern large language models reason about sports: they reward established quarterbacks, prize defensive strength and coaching...
Microsoft's September cumulative for Windows 11 has landed and, rather than being a quiet maintenance release, it mixes visible UI polish, a handful of useful quality fixes and a fresh batch of staged, hardware-gated AI features — with one very practical sting in the tail: the cumulative...
Capita’s fast-moving push to embed Microsoft Copilot agents into everyday operations is moving beyond pilot projects into live, measurable service transformation — cutting email response times, automating high-volume tasks, and wiring AI-driven “agents” into end-to-end processes for clients and...
Microsoft’s internal playbook has shifted decisively: the company has moved to restrict open employee forums, tighten campus access after a high‑profile sit‑in, and impose a phased three‑day‑a‑week return‑to‑office baseline for many staff — a package of measures that recasts Microsoft’s...
There has been a sharp and measurable shift in how Irish mid‑market executives view artificial intelligence: the proportion who described AI as “over‑rated” or mostly hype has collapsed, firms are moving rapidly to formalise generative‑AI rules for staff, yet anxiety about data privacy has never...
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Microsoft has quietly shifted a crucial enforcement point for enterprise AI: Copilot Studio now offers near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors and receive an approve-or-block verdict while the agent executes...
Microsoft has quietly moved a critical enforcement point for enterprise AI agents from after-the-fact logging into the live execution path: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime monitoring that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors — Microsoft...
Microsoft has quietly pushed a significant control point into the live execution path of enterprise AI agents: Copilot Studio can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors (Microsoft Defender, third‑party XDR vendors, or customer endpoints) and receive an approve/block verdict in...
Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has moved from built‑in guardrails to active, near‑real‑time intervention: organizations can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors that approve or block those actions while the agent is executing, enabling step‑level enforcement that ties existing...
Microsoft’s latest Insider whispers fold AI deeper into the Windows shell: right‑click a picture in File Explorer and you may now see an “AI actions” submenu offering Bing Visual Search, background blur, object erase, and background removal — a small set of micro‑workflows that signal a broader...
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Microsoft has added a near‑real‑time enforcement layer to Copilot Studio that lets security teams intercept, evaluate and — when necessary — block the actions autonomous agents plan to take as they run, bringing step‑level policy decisioning into the live execution loop for Power Platform...
Microsoft has moved a critical enforcement point for autonomous workflows from design-time checks and post‑hoc logging into the live execution path: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors...
Microsoft has quietly but meaningfully shifted the balance of power between autonomous AI agents and enterprise defenders: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitors (Microsoft Defender...
Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has added a near‑real‑time monitoring and control layer for AI agents, letting enterprises intercept, evaluate and — when necessary — block agent actions as they execute, and giving security teams a new way to enforce policies at runtime without sacrificing agent...