ai agent governance

In June 2026, the enterprise AI automation market is no longer a clean contest between robotic process automation vendors, chatbot builders, and low-code workflow tools, but a messy platform war over who controls the agent layer of corporate work. The “top 10” framing is useful only if we treat...

Microsoft’s Build 2026 Windows announcements changed the near-term job for IT and security teams: Windows is being positioned as a place where AI agents run under containment, not just a place where people use apps. The concrete news is that Microsoft introduced the early-preview Microsoft...

Silverfort on June 8, 2026 launched an early-access integration that applies real-time identity and access controls to AI agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio, evaluating each agent action before it executes across enterprise systems. The announcement is narrow in product terms but broad in...

Microsoft announced Scout at Build on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, as an always-on workplace AI agent for Teams, email, calendars, and Microsoft 365 tasks, initially launching with a small customer group and a Frontier-access desktop app tied to GitHub Copilot. That makes Scout less a chatbot than a...

Merge has launched Agent Handler on Microsoft’s Agent Store for Microsoft 365 Copilot, giving organizations a managed way to connect AI agents to third-party business systems across the Microsoft 365 ecosystem in June 2026. The announcement is small in the way most platform integrations are...

Kore.ai launched the Artemis edition of its Agent Platform on May 21, 2026, initially on Microsoft Azure, positioning it as a governed enterprise system for building, deploying, and operating multi-agent AI workflows across large organisations. The announcement is less about another chatbot...

Microsoft Copilot Studio’s recent updates, culminating in Microsoft’s May 2026 wave of Copilot and Power Platform changes, recast the product from a low-code chatbot designer into a governed enterprise agent platform for building, orchestrating, testing, and operating AI agents across Microsoft...

Microsoft made Agent 365 generally available for commercial customers on May 1, 2026, positioning it as a Microsoft 365 control plane for discovering, governing, and securing AI agents across Microsoft, SaaS, endpoint, and multicloud environments. That framing sounds tidy, but the announcement...