ai agents

Silicon Valley’s latest race isn’t another model size contest — it’s a sprint to give AI hands that can actually do work for you. In the past few weeks the industry has moved from “assistant” to “agent” with stunning speed: Anthropic’s Claude Cowork, Microsoft’s Copilot Tasks and Agent...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a decisive step beyond conversation: with the newly announced Copilot Tasks, Microsoft is previewing an autonomous, cloud‑hosted assistant that plans and executes multi‑step jobs on your behalf — running in its own browser and compute environment, reporting back...

Microsoft’s consumer Copilot just moved from “helpful assistant” to “active executor” with Copilot Tasks — a research-preview feature that runs an AI agent in the background using its own cloud-based computer and browser to complete multi-step chores on your behalf. Background Copilot’s...

February 2026 will be remembered not as another month of incremental AI advances but as the moment conversational assistants stopped being primarily answer machines and began acting like hired hands — capable of planning, executing, reasoning, and fixing problems across real-world systems. In a...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a decisive step beyond chat: with the new Copilot Tasks research preview, the company is offering an agentic AI that will plan, act, and return results on multi‑step work you describe in plain English — and you can now join a public waitlist to try it. Background /...

The February installment of the AI Business Solutions Partner Show made a clear, practical case for what many partners have been waiting to see: real, production-ready AI agents that can understand Dynamics 365 Business Central data, follow ERP business rules, and take meaningful actions on...

Microsoft’s succinct February post — a conversation between Ryan Cunningham, Corporate VP for Power Platform, and analyst Daniel Newman — captures a decision every CIO, platform lead, and product manager should already be making: enterprise applications are not being incrementally improved by...

Microsoft’s new Cyber Pulse report lands like a wake-up call: AI agents are no longer experimental assistants — they are operational digital coworkers running across Fortune 500 workflows, and organizations that fail to treat them as first‑class identities risk creating a vast, invisible attack...

Microsoft’s new Cyber Pulse report lands a clear, urgent message: AI agents are no longer an abstract future — they are active members of today’s enterprise workforce, scaling faster than many organizations can see, govern, or secure, and that visibility gap is now a measurable business risk...

Microsoft’s latest push folds Copilot from a helpful sidebar into the connective tissue of Windows 11 — the taskbar and File Explorer — turning the OS’s search box into a conversational command center, surface-level AI agents into persistent background workers you can monitor from the taskbar...

Microsoft just demonstrated a major step in making Windows 11 feel less like a static desktop and more like an agentic workspace: a new Ask Copilot experience that surfaces AI agents directly from the taskbar and deeper Copilot integration inside File Explorer, letting small, long‑running AI...

Microsoft’s latest push to make Windows 11 feel less like an operating system and more like a personal assistant arrived in force this week with the rollout of Ask Copilot, system-wide AI agents, and deeper File Explorer integration—features that reshape how users will interact with files...

Microsoft's latest demos show artificial intelligence moving out of a sidebar and straight into the places Windows users open every day: the taskbar and File Explorer — a practical, system-level push that folds Microsoft 365 Copilot and a new class of long-running agents into the Windows 11...

Microsoft quietly pushed another, unmistakable notch toward an “agentic” Windows: Copilot is moving out of a sidebar and into the taskbar, File Explorer is getting inline Copilot insights, and Microsoft is baking a new on‑device agent framework into the operating system so AI can run as...

Andy Jassy’s warning on Amazon’s latest earnings call was blunt: the single biggest long-term risk to Amazon’s retail dominance isn’t Walmart or Alibaba — it’s the rise of horizontal AI agents that aim to become consumers’ new “front door to commerce.” What sounded at first like a tactical quip...

Microsoft’s shift toward a mobile-style, consent-first security model for Windows 11 marks one of the most fundamental changes to the platform’s security posture in years, blending default runtime integrity with smartphone-like permission dialogs and a stronger emphasis on transparency for apps...

The race to build the “agentic enterprise” is no longer a thought experiment — it’s a multi-sided market battle in which six distinct categories of players are jockeying for position, each bringing complementary strengths and acute vulnerabilities. As companies move from chat and retrieval to...

Microsoft’s latest security push for Windows 11 marks a deliberate turn toward a consent-first, secure‑by‑default desktop: the company has announced Windows Baseline Security Mode (BSM) and User Transparency and Consent, a pair of features that together limit runtime execution to verified...

Jen Harris’s message on the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast is simple and urgent: partners must stop treating AI like a toy and start building the partner of the future — one that combines Microsoft Copilot, Azure, Power Platform, data, and governance into outcome-driven solutions that actually...

Microsoft's push to make Microsoft 365 Copilot measurably smarter and more actionable is moving from stagecraft to mass rollout, and the impact will be felt across how organizations create, manage, and govern work. Over the last several months Microsoft has layered new capabilities — agent...