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The European Commission has opened three coordinated market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), putting Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure squarely into Brussels’ regulatory crosshairs and testing whether the DMA — originally framed for consumer-facing platforms — can be...

Mustafa Suleyman’s brusque dismissal of critics as “cynics” — a now‑viral social post that scoffs at people who find modern AI “underwhelming” — did more than headline the week’s tech chatter; it crystallized a broader credibility problem for Microsoft’s AI push and reopened a debate about what...

Check Point and Microsoft have announced a strategic integration that embeds enterprise-grade AI security directly into Microsoft Copilot Studio, enabling continuous, runtime protection for generative-AI agents with AI guardrails, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and threat prevention capabilities...

Microsoft’s next big bet on PC productivity is arriving as software that can act for you — not just suggest, but do — and it’s arriving inside Windows 11 as an experimental, opt‑in “agentic AI” platform that can sort photos, send emails, edit files, and automate settings directly from the...

When a widely shared photograph of a Philippine lawmaker surfaced online this month, many users did what comes naturally now: they asked an AI assistant to verify it — and the assistant said it was real, even though the image had been created by an AI and later traced to its creator. This...

Microsoft and GitHub released an advisory in November addressing a security feature bypass that affects GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio Code; the issue — publicly tracked under the vendor-assigned identifier CVE-2025-62453 — stems from improper validation of generative AI output and can allow a...

Microsoft’s latest Windows preview moves Copilot from a suggestion box into a device-level actor: Copilot Actions — Microsoft’s experimental, “agentic” feature — can now open apps, click, type, and perform multi-step tasks on behalf of users, but Microsoft itself warns these capabilities...

Quest’s product update at Microsoft Ignite 2025 marks a clear push to put generative AI into the middle of identity security for hybrid Microsoft estates — adding AI-written risk summaries, a Security Guardian Agent for Microsoft Security Copilot, workload‑identity coverage for Entra ID, and a...

Microsoft’s own documentation and multiple independent outlets now confirm a fundamental shift in Windows 11: Microsoft is moving from a suggestion-driven assistant model toward an agentic OS capable of running autonomous "agents" that can act on a user’s behalf — and the company is explicit...

Check Point’s announced collaboration with Microsoft to integrate its AI Guardrails, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Threat Prevention into Microsoft Copilot Studio marks a significant step in operationalizing runtime security for enterprise AI agents, promising continuous protection, policy...

Sophos’ decision to surface its Intelix threat intelligence inside Microsoft’s Copilot ecosystem marks a practical inflection point: high-fidelity telemetry and sandbox analysis that once lived behind SOC consoles are now available inside Microsoft Security Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot...

Quest’s latest update to Security Guardian and its wider AI-enabled push for identity and data tooling mark a notable escalation in the vendor’s Microsoft-aligned strategy — one that promises faster, AI-guided identity threat detection and a single-console approach to migration, audit, and...

Check Point’s announcement that it will embed its AI Guardrails, Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Threat Prevention technologies directly into Microsoft Copilot Studio marks a significant step toward runtime security for agentic AI — but it also brings a demanding set of architectural, operational...

Microsoft’s blunt admission that Windows 11’s new “agentic” features introduce novel security risks turns what was pitched as a productivity breakthrough into one of the most consequential security conversations for desktops in years. Background Microsoft is previewing a set of features that...

Check Point and Microsoft announced a collaboration this week to embed enterprise-grade AI security directly into Microsoft Copilot Studio, promising continuous runtime protection, DLP, and threat prevention for AI agents built and deployed on the platform. Background The announcement —...

Microsoft’s mea culpa over the “agentic OS” pivot is no PR afterthought — it’s the most consequential product-and-security correction the Windows platform has faced in years, and Microsoft’s public response makes clear the company recognizes both the technical promise and the immediate safety...

Cohesity’s expanded collaboration with Microsoft marks an aggressive push to turn “dormant” backup stores into active, AI‑enabled sources of security, compliance and recovery intelligence — a move the vendor says produced double‑digit marketplace growth, a tenfold rise in co‑sell engagements and...

Check Point’s announcement that it will embed runtime AI Guardrails, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), and Threat Prevention into Microsoft Copilot Studio marks a practical shift in how enterprises secure agentic AI — moving protections from design-time checks and audits into the execution path where...

Windows 11’s new agentic features mark a decisive shift: AI is no longer just a helpful advisor on the screen but a background actor with the ability to open apps, edit files, and perform multi‑step workflows — and Microsoft is explicit that these capabilities come with real security trade‑offs...

Microsoft’s Ignite announcements pushed Security Copilot from a tactical assistant to a full-fledged, agentic security platform — delivering twelve new preview agents across Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Intune and Microsoft Purview, plus an expanding partner ecosystem, a...