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The City of Raisio in Finland has completed an early Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption program built around staff training, role-specific use cases and AI governance rather than a broad, technology-led deployment. According to a Capgemini client case study published in June, nearly 100 municipal...

Indra Group has become the first Spanish company to receive AENOR’s “Responsible AI Technology based on Microsoft tools” certification, validating the way it designs, deploys and operates selected AI agents built with Microsoft technology. The certification was presented in Madrid on July 13...

Microsoft is pitching agentic AI as a practical next step for public-sector modernization, with its Worldwide Public Sector chief Philippe Rogge arguing that governments can use AI agents to handle high-volume, rules-driven work while retaining human accountability for consequential decisions...

Microsoft has begun rolling out OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 as the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing the newly released model to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot Chat, and Copilot Cowork. The change was announced on July 9, 2026, alongside OpenAI’s broader GPT-5.6 launch, but it does not...

The Department of Veterans Affairs made VA GPT and Microsoft Copilot Chat broadly available, and providers used those tools for clinical documentation and patient-care support even though VA had not classified them as high-impact AI. The VA Office of Inspector General found 79 clinical prompts...

In Malaysia, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is getting an AI avatar as a Johor state election unfolds on Saturday, while Bursa’s ACE market is showcasing companies that market themselves through AI branding or dependence on existing platforms rather than building the full technology stack. The...

Additional coverage of this story: Cognizant Frontier Targets 15,000 AI Workers by End of 2026 It adds detailed security controls: separate agent identities, least-privilege access, approval gates, retained audit logs, and documented rollback and shutdown procedures before production use...

OpenAI announced GPT-5.6 for Microsoft 365 Copilot on July 10, 2026, positioning its newest model family across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot Chat, and Cowork. The verified product promises are focused: fewer prompts in Word, deeper and more token-efficient analysis in Excel, higher-quality...

Microsoft Foundry customers should deploy Claude Fable 5 only for tightly controlled experiments using synthetic, public, or explicitly approved data, while postponing production use involving source code, customer information, regulated records, credentials, privileged communications, or other...

Microsoft has moved Copilot Cowork from its experimental Frontier program into general enterprise availability, giving Microsoft 365 Copilot users an agent designed to turn broad business goals into multi-step execution plans, continue working in the background, and stop at defined checkpoints...

Microsoft Foundry hosted agents are now generally available, with support for production-grade, long-running workflows across frameworks, programming languages, and models. Microsoft also names integrations with GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft IQ, and Agent 365. The immediate news is...

HubSpot reversed a plan to share enrichment data across customer accounts, Sysdig documented an AI-driven ransomware campaign called JADEPUFFER, Microsoft released Sales Agent and Service Agent across its productivity stack, and OpenAI split ChatGPT 5.6 into three variants aimed at different...

Cognizant plans to build an enterprise AI workforce of 5,000 Frontier-certified engineers and 10,000 Frontier business operators by December 31, 2026, with its first client-supporting cohort expected in the fourth quarter of 2026. Enterprise buyers should respond by treating the announcement as...

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work in July 2026, combining ChatGPT with Codex so Pro, Enterprise and Edu users can produce documents, presentations and websites from plain-language instructions. The rollout begins on web and mobile, with a desktop app and hosted-website capability forming part of the...

Microsoft is pushing Copilot from a conversational assistant toward an enterprise execution layer, using Copilot Cowork, Wave 3 of Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agent 365 and the Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite to make AI a more active part of work across the applications employees already use. The...

Microsoft shipped 40-plus Copilot updates across Microsoft 365 in July 2026, making Copilot Cowork generally available, adding Anthropic Claude as an option in Copilot Chat for active subscribers, redesigning menus, introducing a Tasks tab, improving document navigation, adding persistent...

Microsoft adopted OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 as the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot on July 9, 2026, extending it across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Cowork as OpenAI moved the model from a restricted late-June preview into public availability that same day. The practical question is not whether...

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on Thursday as an enterprise “super app” that combines autonomous agents, coding tools, connected workplace data and finished-output creation across web, mobile and desktop, alongside the new GPT-5.6 family of Sol, Terra and Luna models. The launch is less a routine...

Claude models are now available in Microsoft Foundry, giving Azure customers a familiar commercial route for evaluating and deploying Anthropic’s models. Azure handles billing, authentication, and commitment retirement, while Anthropic’s “Claude in Microsoft Foundry: Building agents for...

Microsoft says MAIRE connected Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft Copilot Studio with Autodesk Forma and Autodesk Revit so engineers can ask natural-language questions about complex project data inside Microsoft Teams. That is the core change: Microsoft’s AI and agent-building tools are being...