ai agents

Elon Musk has just resurrected the old “Macrohard” gag — this time as a working-sounding program called Digital Optimus — claiming a joint xAI–Tesla effort can pair xAI’s Grok reasoning model with Tesla-built, screen-controlling AI agents to “emulate the function of entire companies.” In a short...

Microsoft’s AI push into “do-it-for-you” work hit a new inflection point this week as Copilot — the company’s flagship workplace assistant — gained a new, agentic sibling: Copilot Cowork, developed in close collaboration with Anthropic. The shift is not incremental. Copilot Cowork is explicitly...

AI agents are no longer a futurist talking point; they are actively changing how UK enterprises run, secure, and scale their IT operations — and that shift is accelerating faster than many organisations planned for. Background The term AI agents (also called agentic AI, autonomous agents, or...

Google’s new Workspace CLI lands as a deceptively simple tool that lowers the technical barrier between AI agents and your inbox, calendar, Drive files, and Docs — and that matters because it changes who (and what) can act on your company’s most sensitive productivity data. Released to GitHub in...

Three years after the ChatGPT shockwave, AI agents have moved from novelty to infrastructure — and with that transition comes a set of practical security, governance, and operational obligations every Windows‑era IT team must face now, not later. Background The technology landscape that began...

The moment an AI agent can press a button in your environment, security stops being an academic exercise and becomes a control‑plane problem with real, measurable blast radius — a shift illustrated by the recent disclosures around Model Context Protocol (MCP) implementations and the Anthropic...

Microsoft Research’s new large-scale study reframes a simple but powerful idea: when LLMs work over graph-structured data, how they are allowed to act matters at least as much as what prompts you feed them. Background Graph-structured data underpins many modern productivity and enterprise...

OpenAI’s engineers have quietly built an internal code-hosting platform and — according to multiple reports — the company is now weighing whether to productize that tool as a commercial alternative to the Microsoft‑owned GitHub, a move that would set up one of the most surprising competitive...

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...