ai agents

Levi Strauss & Co. has moved core technology workloads to Microsoft Azure and is using Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Fabric IQ, GitHub Copilot, and more than 1,000 deployed agents to modernize reporting, forecasting, migration work, and employee workflows across the global retailer. The immediate...

Microsoft said on June 9, 2026, that Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 is available in Microsoft Foundry, Foundry Agent Service, and GitHub Copilot, bringing a guarded version of Anthropic’s Mythos-class model family to Azure customers for enterprise agent workloads. The announcement is less about...

Microsoft announced on June 9, 2026, that Copilot Studio is getting a major upgrade for businesses building AI agents and automated workflows, with a redesigned authoring experience, fewer configuration tabs, stronger orchestration, and tooling meant to make multi-step tasks more reliable. The...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in early June 2026 that businesses deploying AI agents will need to give them identities, sandboxes, permissions, policies, and audit trails much as they already do for human employees. The remark is more than a neat metaphor for the AI age. It is Microsoft’s...

Nvidia and Microsoft used the first week of June 2026 to sketch two competing futures for AI-agent hardware, with Nvidia unveiling RTX Spark for Windows PCs at GTC Taipei on June 1 and Microsoft introducing Project Solara for agent-first devices at Build on June 2. The announcements are not just...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in early June to reposition Windows 11 as a hybrid AI platform, pairing cloud agents with local models, CPU/GPU/NPU-aware APIs, and new NVIDIA-powered hardware intended to run increasingly capable agents directly on PCs. That is the factual headline; the strategic one...

Microsoft’s Teams roadmap item for “Interactive Agents for Teams Meetings and Calls” is scheduled to begin rollout in September 2026, bringing agents into Teams meetings and 1-on-1 calls with group and private interactions, while session memory is currently limited to agents built on Copilot...

Microsoft introduced Project Solara at Build 2026 on June 2 as an Android Open Source Project-based, chip-to-cloud platform for enterprise devices designed to run AI agents instead of traditional apps across desk hubs, wearable badges, and other specialized workplace hardware. The important part...

At the OpenAI Financial Services Summit on June 8, 2026, OpenAI solutions engineer Lee Spacagna presented “Operationalizing AI in workflows,” a financial-services-focused demonstration of how enterprise AI agents can be built, connected to business systems, and used to automate multi-step work...

Microsoft’s latest investor problem is that on June 8, 2026, the company looked operationally stronger across gaming, public-sector AI, and developer tooling while its shares still traded lower under the shadow of proposed EU cloud-sovereignty rules. That is not a contradiction so much as a...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco to preview Project Solara, a chip-to-cloud platform for agent-first enterprise devices that runs on an Android Open Source Project foundation rather than Windows. The company is not reviving Windows Phone, and it is not announcing a consumer handset. It...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco to position Windows 11 as a control plane for AI agents, previewing Microsoft Execution Containers, OpenClaw on Windows, and Project Solara as pieces of a broader agent-first computing strategy. That is not just another Copilot feature drop. It is...

Microsoft, Google, and Meta are converging on OpenClaw-style AI agents in 2026, with Microsoft integrating the open-source assistant into Windows and Microsoft 365, Google rebuilding the concept inside Gemini, and Meta reportedly preparing a consumer-focused rival called Hatch. The shift is not...

OpenAI is preparing a major ChatGPT redesign, reportedly due within weeks of June 2026, that would fold agents, Codex, image tools, and third-party apps such as Canva and Booking.com into a more unified consumer and workplace interface. That sounds like a product refresh, but it is really a...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in early June to position Microsoft Fabric as the enterprise data and context platform for AI agents, announcing Azure HorizonDB, GPU-accelerated Fabric Data Warehouse, and Fabric IQ integrations aimed squarely at Snowflake, Databricks, and the growing market for...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2 and 3 to pitch AI agents, new device concepts, and in-house MAI models as the next layer of its software business. The answer to whether that becomes Microsoft’s next growth catalyst is yes, but only if the company turns agentic AI from a...

OpenAI is reportedly preparing a major ChatGPT redesign in June 2026 that would push the chatbot toward a “superapp” model, combining coding, AI agents, image generation, automation, and partner services such as Canva and Booking.com inside one interface. The move is not just a product refresh...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco to recast Windows 11 as the operating system for local AI agents, pairing OpenClaw support with Microsoft Execution Containers, new RTX Spark-based Surface hardware, and an imminent Microsoft Scout agent for business users. The message was not subtle...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco to recast Windows 11 as the operating system for local AI agents, pairing OpenClaw on Windows, Microsoft Execution Containers, Scout, and Project Solara with new hardware meant to make autonomous software feel deployable on real PCs. The pitch was not...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang confirmed at Computex 2026 in Taipei that RTX Spark, the company’s new Grace Blackwell-based Windows PC platform for local AI workloads, is already planned to continue through future N2X and N3X generations after the first N1X-derived systems arrive this fall. That...