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Microsoft has turned Copilot into an enterprise agent platform in 2026, making Microsoft 365 E7 and Agent 365 generally available on May 1, adding computer-using agents in Copilot Studio on May 13, and introducing multi-model Researcher workflows that use Claude to check GPT output. The...

More than 100 people registered for Stronghold Data’s AI training in Joplin, Missouri, on May 30, 2026, forcing the company to move its quarterly lunch-and-learn from its original venue to the Joplin Public Library. The headline is local, but the story is bigger than one crowded room in...

Microsoft said Microsoft 365 Copilot passed a March 2026 ISO/IEC 42001 surveillance audit with no non-conformities or improvement observations, and the audited scope now includes Copilot Studio alongside the core Copilot services. That sounds like a narrow compliance update, but it lands at a...

On May 29, 2026, Microsoft said Sonata Software, a publicly traded India-based IT services firm, saved about 200 hours a month after moving forecasting and reconciliation work onto Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Copilot, and Fabric data agents across delivery, sales, finance, and operations. The...

Microsoft is testing new Copilot controls for Word and PowerPoint that would make the assistant more context-aware, more limited in what it can change, and eventually more consistent across consumer and commercial Microsoft 365 experiences. The important part is not that the prompt box may get...

Microsoft’s June 9, 2026 virtual roundtable with the New Jersey Business & Industry Association and NJ AI Hub will teach business leaders how to use Microsoft Copilot for practical work in sales, operations, leadership, meetings, documents, and workflow automation. The framing is more revealing...

Microsoft added Mistral Medium 3.5 to Copilot Studio on May 28, 2026, making the model available worldwide in early release environments for agent building and orchestration, with European Union customers getting in-region processing and admins controlling access through Microsoft 365 and Power...

Microsoft 365 Copilot was recertified in March 2026 under ISO/IEC 42001:2023 by an independent auditor, with Microsoft saying the audit found zero non-conformities and zero improvement observations across its expanded enterprise AI management system. That sounds like compliance boilerplate until...

Microsoft 365 Copilot was recertified in March 2026 against ISO/IEC 42001:2023 with what Microsoft describes as zero non-conformities and zero improvement observations, extending a certification first awarded in March 2025 to its enterprise AI assistant across Microsoft 365. The result gives...

Microsoft added a Windows 11 policy in the April 2026 update that lets administrators remove the Microsoft Copilot app, while power users can still turn to third-party scripts such as RemoveWindowsAI to strip broader AI components from the operating system. The important part is not that Copilot...

Microsoft Commercial CEO Judson Althoff told CRN that Microsoft partners should build managed services around AI agents after Microsoft’s own Agent 365 testing reportedly found 500,000 internal agents producing 65,000 responses per day across a 28-day period. The message is not subtle: Microsoft...

RiskFootprint announced on May 22, 2026, in Boca Raton, Florida, that it has launched a Microsoft Copilot-assisted workflow that turns its parcel-level hazard and climate reports into rapid summaries for real estate, lending, underwriting, engineering, and due-diligence professionals. The pitch...

Microsoft’s Copilot Cowork is under scrutiny after PromptArmor said on May 26, 2026 that poisoned workflow content could make the agent send a user downloadable links to Microsoft 365 files without the sensitive-action approval Microsoft says should appear. The claim is narrow, but the...

Microsoft has added a Windows 11 policy called “Remove Microsoft Copilot app,” reportedly introduced with the April 2026 update and surfaced in Group Policy under User Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components, Windows AI. The setting gives Pro, Enterprise, Education, and...

Microsoft has added a Windows 11 policy called “Remove Microsoft Copilot app” that lets administrators uninstall the consumer Copilot app through Group Policy, MDM policy, or an equivalent Registry value on supported editions including Pro, Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise/LTSC. The...

Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and other mainstream AI assistants can produce false “analysis” when left on default model settings, as shown in a May 2026 experiment in which identical datasets were labeled by country and then described as culturally different. The lesson is not that one...

Kore.ai launched the Artemis edition of its Agent Platform on May 21, 2026, making Microsoft Azure the first cloud home for a new enterprise system designed to build, govern, and operate multiagent AI workflows. The announcement is less about another chatbot builder than about the next control...

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...