ai governance

GitHub made Kimi K2.7 Code generally available in GitHub Copilot on July 1, 2026, adding the open-weight coding model to Copilot’s model picker first for Pro, Pro+, and Max users, with Business and Enterprise access planned over the coming weeks. The announcement is easy to read as just another...

Microsoft added a broad June 2026 wave of Microsoft 365 Copilot features across Cowork, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Notebooks, Power BI, Dataverse, and admin controls, with Copilot Cowork’s general availability as the month’s clearest signal of where the product is heading. The story is...

Microsoft’s June 2026 Teams update added Copilot-powered contextual search, richer channel file discovery, faster mobile Office previews, restored chat context, smarter meeting bot controls, branded reactions, Teams Phone AI previews, frontline and platform improvements, and a fresh wave of...

Microsoft Teams is rolling out an admin-controlled external bot detection system in 2026 that routes suspected third-party meeting bots into the lobby, requires explicit organizer approval, and begins replacing CAPTCHA-based join verification across Teams meetings. The change is not just another...

Tieto announced on July 1, 2026, that it has achieved Microsoft Copilot specialization under its Solutions Partner for Modern Work status, positioning the Nordic technology services company as a certified delivery partner for enterprise Copilot deployments. The announcement is not a product...

Jamf made AI Governance generally available in Jamf for Mac on July 1, 2026, adding native macOS controls that let IT and security teams discover AI tools, apply policy, and produce audit reports across managed Mac fleets. The announcement is less about one vendor adding another dashboard than...

Microsoft updated Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 486695 on June 30, 2026, confirming that company-wide prompt publishing for the Copilot Prompt Gallery is in development for worldwide Microsoft 365 tenants across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, desktop, and web. The feature is scheduled for...

Microsoft launched Roadmap ID 516040 for Microsoft 365 Copilot in May 2026, giving users of the Microsoft 365 web app a way to add web links as references inside Copilot Notebooks for Worldwide standard multi-tenant customers. The change looks small because the interface action is small: paste a...

Cynomi released a June 30, 2026 report from Orlando, Florida, and Tel Aviv analyzing MSP conversations about AI from May 2025 through May 2026 across Reddit, search-research patterns, Perplexity Deep Research, and Cynomi’s own customer community. Its useful contribution is not that MSPs are...

EHS Insight announced on June 30, 2026, that its environmental, health, safety, and ESG management platform now supports Model Context Protocol, letting authorized users query live EHS Insight data from Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot. The claim is not just another “AI copilot” press...

Anthropic’s Claude models became generally available in Microsoft Foundry on June 29, 2026, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs in Azure for enterprise customers that want to build domain-specific and autonomous AI agents. The announcement is less about another model appearing in...

Tech Mahindra said on June 30, 2026, that it has partnered with Microsoft to advance telecom modernization through an AI-driven 5G Network Digital Twin, combining Tech Mahindra’s telecom services expertise with Microsoft’s cloud, data, and AI platforms for communications service providers. The...

Trust3 AI announced on June 29, 2026, in San Francisco that its Agent Control Plane now integrates with Microsoft Copilot Studio, giving enterprise security teams discovery, observability, runtime guardrails, and incident controls for Copilot Studio agents, including agents built outside formal...

Microsoft launched Remote MCP Server Support for Microsoft 365 Copilot Work IQ APIs in June 2026 for worldwide standard multi-tenant customers, giving developers a Work IQ endpoint that lets agents securely connect to remote Model Context Protocol servers and invoke external tools beyond their...

Microsoft has moved Planner Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot to general availability for worldwide standard commercial tenants in June 2026, after a March preview, giving Copilot-licensed organizations a task-management agent for creating, organizing, updating, and summarizing Planner work from...

On June 29, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story detailing how São Paulo-based financial technology company Finnet adopted Microsoft 365 Copilot Business across corporate functions after a governed pilot with partner Mundo 365, reporting 95.3 percent adoption and one to three hours saved...

EPC Group announced on June 29, 2026, from Houston, Texas, a fixed-fee six-week Microsoft 365 Copilot Rescue Engagement for enterprises whose paid Copilot rollouts have stalled below expected usage and return-on-investment targets. The announcement is not really about one consultancy adding...

Shoosmiths reported record profit of £80 million for its 2025/26 financial year, with profit per equity partner reaching £1.04 million and turnover rising to £221.4 million as the UK law firm deepened its bet on Microsoft-backed legal AI. The numbers are not just another City law profitability...

On June 24, 2026, Microsoft released its third annual AI in Education Report from Redmond and announced new no-additional-cost AI tools for Microsoft 365 Education, aimed at helping schools turn widespread classroom experimentation into structured, responsible use before ISTELive 26 in Orlando...

Bronstein, Gewirtz & Grossman said on June 28, 2026, that a securities class action has been filed against Microsoft and certain officers over alleged AI and Copilot disclosures affecting investors who bought Microsoft securities from May 1, 2025, through January 28, 2026. The lawsuit is not a...