ai agents

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...

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...