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Microsoft said on May 22, 2026, that Forrester named it a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Workforce Identity Security Platforms, Q2 2026, with Microsoft Entra receiving the highest scores in the report’s current offering and strategy categories, according to the company’s security blog. The...

On May 22, 2026, Healthcare Digital reported that Cactus Life Sciences, a global medical communications agency of more than 350 science-trained professionals, is using Microsoft 365 Copilot and custom AI agents to speed clinical document work while keeping humans in charge. The important part is...

Cactus Life Sciences, a medical communications agency operating across the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, India, and Japan, has adopted Microsoft 365 Copilot and custom Microsoft agents to speed scientific writing, document review, project coordination, and secure analysis of...

Microsoft is positioning Work IQ as the shared intelligence layer behind Microsoft 365 Copilot and AI agents, using Microsoft Graph data from Teams, Outlook, Office files, meetings, calendars, and business apps to make workplace AI more contextual across an organization. The important point is...

Microsoft Build 2026 is scheduled for June 2–3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, moving Microsoft’s flagship developer conference away from its recent Seattle pattern and into a smaller, AI-focused format aimed at roughly 2,500 in-person attendees plus a free online audience. That venue...

Microsoft has made computer use in Copilot Studio generally available for enterprise customers, extending Power Platform agents so they can operate websites and desktop-style interfaces with virtual clicks, typing, and visual interpretation when no usable API exists. The move turns Copilot...

Enterprises are moving AI agents from pilots into production in 2026, with Databricks reporting a 327 percent surge in multi-agent systems in under four months and VentureBeat’s February tracker showing Microsoft leading orchestration-platform adoption among surveyed enterprise decision makers...

Microsoft published a May 14, 2026 customer story describing how Costa Rica’s Dos Pinos dairy cooperative has deployed roughly 80 AI agents across packaging review, legal drafting, risk work, IT service handling, sales reporting, and retail support using Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Chat, and...

On May 12, 2026, Microsoft released KB5089549 for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 24H2, raising them to builds 26200.8457 and 26100.8457, while KB5089548 updates Windows 11 version 26H1 to build 28000.2113. The notable part is not that Patch Tuesday arrived; it always does. The notable part is that...

Microsoft researchers Philippe Laban, Tobias Schnabel, and Jennifer Neville posted an April 17, 2026 preprint arguing that 19 tested large language models, including frontier systems from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI, silently degraded documents during long delegated editing workflows. The...

Microsoft’s Copilot Cowork is now rolling out to eligible Frontier users on iOS and Android through the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app, while adding plugin support that lets the agent use approved skills and connectors beyond Microsoft’s own productivity stack. That sounds like a feature...

Microsoft’s internal OpenClaw effort, led by Corporate Vice President Omar Shahine, is testing an OpenClaw-based desktop assistant called ClawPilot inside Microsoft as of May 2026, with more than 3,000 daily internal users reportedly using it under the broader “Project Lobster” umbrella. The...

Microsoft made Copilot Cowork available in the Microsoft 365 Copilot mobile app for iOS and Android on May 5, 2026, while adding reusable Cowork Skills and third-party plugin support for organizations testing the agent through its Frontier preview program. The move is easy to summarize and...

Microsoft on May 5, 2026, published its 2026 Work Trend Index and a Microsoft 365 Copilot update positioning AI agents as the next operating layer for work across Microsoft 365, Agent 365, Copilot Cowork, and the new Microsoft 365 E7 suite. The company’s argument is no longer that Copilot can...

Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure are now competing in 2026 to own the entire enterprise AI stack, from chips and data centers to models, agents, business applications, workflow context, and the daily software surfaces where employees actually work. The race is no longer...

On April 27, 2026, Microsoft and OpenAI amended their partnership so OpenAI can offer its products through cloud providers beyond Azure, while Microsoft remains OpenAI’s primary cloud partner and keeps non-exclusive rights to OpenAI technology through 2032. The announcement did not simply open a...

Genspark announced on April 29, 2026, from Palo Alto that it has entered a global strategic partnership with Microsoft to embed its AI agents into Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Agent 365. The news is not just another startup integration in the Microsoft...

Amazon is taking its most direct swing yet at the AI assistant war with Amazon Quick, a desktop-first work agent designed to sit across email, calendars, files, chat, CRM systems, and business applications rather than inside a single productivity suite. Alongside it, AWS is recasting Amazon...

Amazon Web Services has moved from AI infrastructure contender to direct OpenAI distribution partner, giving enterprise customers a new path to use OpenAI models without shifting core workloads to Microsoft Azure. The limited-preview arrival of OpenAI models, Codex, and Bedrock Managed Agents on...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is arriving in Microsoft Foundry as another clear sign that the enterprise AI race has moved past novelty and into operations. Microsoft is positioning the model not just as a smarter assistant, but as a production-ready component for agentic systems that need persistence, tool...