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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...

The arrival of AI agents inside enterprise environments has created a paradox for modern security teams: simultaneous promise and peril. Microsoft’s recent Cyber Pulse messaging and related security briefings argue that agentic AI—autonomous, tool-enabled assistants that can read, act, and...

Ecommerce merchants face a pivotal choice: blanket-block AI crawlers and risk missing the next major shopping channel, or selectively monitor and enable agentic access to capture buyers who will increasingly begin — and sometimes finish — their purchase journeys inside conversational AI. Scot...

The AI industry’s public conversation has begun to pivot away from casual chat and toward a much more consequential promise: not conversational companions, but autonomous digital coworkers that can plan, act, and be managed inside the software ecosystems companies already use. Background: why...

Los Angeles is no longer just a global media capital — it’s a fast-growing node in the AI agent economy, where startups, systems integrators and hyperscale platforms converge to build the autonomous assistants and decision systems that businesses now treat as core infrastructure. A recent...

Microsoft has quietly moved a new Copilot surface into the place most work actually lives: your OneDrive. What started as a set of preview concepts has reached general availability for commercial tenants — OneDrive now supports AI “agents” saved as .agent files that can reason across up to 20...

Microsoft has quietly moved a major piece of its Copilot strategy from preview into production: AI agents in OneDrive are now generally available for commercial tenants, letting you save a focused AI assistant as a .agent file that reasons over a curated set of documents, keeps project history...

Microsoft has begun rolling out Agents in OneDrive, a feature that turns selected files and folders into a focused, shareable Copilot-powered assistant — saved as a .agent file — and positions OneDrive as a place not just for storage, but for context-aware, project-centric AI assistance...

In an era when the word “agent” has leapt from academic papers into boardroom roadmaps, Dona Sarkar’s conversation with John Siefert on the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast cuts past the hype: building an AI agent is now the easy part; making that agent production‑ready, governable, and valuable at...

Managing business operations in 2026 increasingly means handing repetitive, rules-based work to AI so your people can focus on judgment and relationships — and that shift is precisely what the recent G2 roundup of the “6 Best AI Agents for Business Operations” aims to explain and prioritize. The...

Two years ago, a handful of CEOs made a decision that reads today like a strategic hinge point: treat generative AI not as a bolt-on efficiency toy but as the company’s operating fabric. The consequences are already visible — from network-platform vendors embedding agentic architectures into...

Two years after sweeping predictions that generative AI would upend “knowledge work,” a new, rigorously constructed benchmark makes plain what many in law firms, banks, and consultancies already suspected: today’s agentic models are fast learners, but they are not yet reliable coworkers. The...

For decades the Windows desktop has been shorthand for personal computing; now a sweeping argument from TechSpective suggests that a different kind of platform—agentic, multimodal AI—is not just reshaping the user experience but is poised to replace the operating system itself. That provocative...

Microsoft’s move to inspect and control AI agent actions at runtime marks a practical shift in enterprise defensive strategy: instead of relying solely on build‑time policies, organizations can now interpose a real time gate that inspects every planned tool invocation and decides — in...

Microsoft and Adobe’s long-running collaboration has entered a new phase in the cloud era, with fresh product integrations and AI-driven workflows that tie Adobe’s creative and document services into Microsoft’s productivity stack and Azure infrastructure — a move that expands convenience for...

Microsoft has pushed Copilot Studio deeper into developer workflows by making the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code generally available (GA), a move that folds agent authoring, versioning, and deployment into the same toolchain teams already use for application code. Background...

A new, faint UI cue in a Windows 11 Insider build suggests Microsoft is testing a tighter Copilot tie‑in inside File Explorer — an invisible button that appears when you hover over a blank spot in the navigation bar and which, according to strings found in preview code, may be labeled "Chat with...