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Manus AI is apparently getting ready to move its always-on agent beyond Telegram and into WhatsApp Business, and that matters for reasons that go well beyond another messaging-app checkbox. Evidence spotted in the Manus web app suggests a QR-based linking flow that mirrors the Telegram setup...

Microsoft’s reported hiring of the team behind Cove, a Sequoia-backed AI startup, fits neatly into the company’s broader 2025-2026 playbook: buy talent, absorb product instincts, and accelerate the CoreAI stack rather than wait for incremental internal development. The move matters less as a...

ChatGPT has evolved from a novelty chatbot into a sprawling AI platform, and the 2026 version is defined by a simple but consequential shift: it is no longer just answering questions, it is increasingly doing work. The latest guide on TECHi frames that transformation around GPT-5, a wide pricing...

Microsoft is reshaping its Copilot strategy again, and this time the move is bigger than a simple reorg. In a leadership update shared internally and published by Microsoft on March 17, 2026, Satya Nadella and Mustafa Suleyman described a unified Copilot organization, a sharper split between...

The sudden, industry‑wide rush to build autonomous AI agents has exposed a simple truth: the Internet we designed for humans is not optimized for trillions of machine‑to‑machine, agentic interactions — and the consequences of continuing to pretend otherwise are already visible in security gaps...

Microsoft’s latest play in the enterprise AI arms race landed with familiar ambition and new specificity: a set of agent-focused products that stitch third‑party reasoning models into Microsoft 365, plus a governance layer and a premium licensing tier designed to reassure customers—and...

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...