ai governance

Microsoft has named eleven AI-first startups for its Microsoft Build 2026 cohort, bringing companies in developer tooling, AI infrastructure, observability, synthetic data, robotics, and agent security to San Francisco and online for its June 2–3 developer conference. The list is less a startup...

Kore.ai launched the Artemis edition of its Agent Platform on May 21, 2026, initially on Microsoft Azure, positioning it as a governed enterprise system for building, deploying, and operating multi-agent AI workflows across large organisations. The announcement is less about another chatbot...

On Thursday, May 21, 2026, Microsoft and EY announced a $1 billion partnership that will pair Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineers with EY industry professionals to help large organizations move artificial intelligence projects from pilots into production across core business functions. The...

Microsoft announced Azure Linux 4.0 for Azure Virtual Machines and the general availability of Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit North America 2026 in Minneapolis on May 18, positioning both Linux platforms as hardened foundations for AI-native, containerized, and agentic workloads on...

IBM and Microsoft used this week’s Frontier Summit in Bengaluru, India, to recast their joint AI consulting push around “Frontier Labs,” a rebranding of IBM Consulting’s Microsoft Experience Zones aimed at helping clients move from AI pilots to governed, scalable human-agent workflows. The...

On May 21, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story saying the University of Kentucky has deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot and related Microsoft AI tools across its campus, organizing more than 150 existing AI efforts into a governed program reaching more than 70,000 students and employees. The...

OneStream on May 19, 2026 announced generally available agentic AI capabilities for corporate finance, including a Finance Agentic Layer that lets its governed OneStream data and agents interoperate with external AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. The announcement is less...

More than 3,000 attendees gathered at the European Collaboration Summit in Cologne, Germany, from May 5 to May 7, 2026, for a Microsoft-focused event where AI implementation, Copilot adoption, governance, security, automation, and modern work dominated the agenda. The important word is not AI...

Digitate has been recognized on May 19, 2026, as a Microsoft Solutions Partner within the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program, with its ignio platform receiving certified software designations for Azure, Retail AI, Manufacturing AI, and Financial Services AI. The news is not merely another...

WinWire’s Agentic AI @ Scale is an enterprise services framework for designing, deploying, and operating Azure-based AI agents, newly amplified by NTT DATA’s May 2026 agreement to acquire WinWire and fold more than 1,000 Azure engineers and AI specialists into its Microsoft business. The pitch...

Microsoft and Red Hat used Red Hat Summit 2026 in Atlanta to recast their 10-year partnership as a unified hybrid cloud strategy, tying Azure Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization, AI governance and regulated enterprise deployment into one platform story. The pitch is not merely that...

Norm Ai launched a compliance agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot on May 12, 2026, adding automated policy review, verification, disclosure support, and audit trails to Microsoft’s workplace AI stack for enterprises in regulated sectors. The move is less about another chatbot and more about a...

Konverge AI said on May 9, 2026, that it has become a Microsoft Data & AI Partner, giving the Wilmington, Delaware-based decision-science and AI engineering firm deeper access to Microsoft’s Azure, marketplace, support, and advisory ecosystem. The announcement is not just another partner-program...

Microsoft published its April 2026 Copilot Studio update on May 11, 2026, adding broader agent governance, richer workflow automation, connected app experiences in Copilot Chat, an expanded usage estimator, Work IQ previews, agent-to-agent communication, and early access to GPT-5.5 Reasoning in...

Microsoft is preparing a Microsoft Purview capability that lets authorized enterprise reviewers read flagged AI prompts and responses in plaintext, with preview activity in May 2026 and general availability expected in June 2026 for organizations using the relevant compliance controls. That...

Microsoft is rolling out a Purview Insider Risk Management feature in May and June 2026 that lets authorized enterprise security teams view risky AI prompts and responses in plaintext, including cases where the employee identity remains pseudonymized until a privileged reviewer chooses to...

Microsoft has published CVE-2026-26164 as a Microsoft 365 Copilot information disclosure vulnerability in its Security Update Guide, identifying it as a cloud-era security issue where Copilot could expose information over a network rather than a traditional Windows patching problem. The...

Microsoft published a May 7, 2026 sovereignty checklist for AI steering committees, arguing that enterprise AI programs must prove where data is processed, who can access systems, and how operations continue across jurisdictions. The message is not subtle: AI governance has escaped the...

Microsoft is removing visible Copilot branding from parts of Windows 11 in 2026, starting with Insider versions of apps such as Notepad and Snipping Tool, while also giving enterprise administrators a narrower policy path to remove the Copilot app under Windows 11 25H2. This is not a retreat...

Microsoft says Gallagher, the global insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has built a governed enterprise AI platform on Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Purview to speed claims review, quote workflows, M&A document analysis, and daily work for more than...