autonomous agents

Microsoft’s AI push into “do-it-for-you” work hit a new inflection point this week as Copilot — the company’s flagship workplace assistant — gained a new, agentic sibling: Copilot Cowork, developed in close collaboration with Anthropic. The shift is not incremental. Copilot Cowork is explicitly...

Agentic AI is no longer a thought experiment; it’s a practical toolset that — in 2026 — can research and buy things for you, manage calendars and projects, work on your local machine, nudge your finances, and run your home. The recent AOL primer that outlined “5 ways AI agents can help” captures...

Agentic AI has moved from marketing buzz to an engineering imperative: teams that want AI to do work—not just draft text—must design agents with planners, tools, memory, evals, and governance rather than relying on ever‑better prompts. rview Agentic AI describes systems that set goals, plan...

Microsoft’s Copilot effort has quietly passed a hinge point: what began as a conversational assistant that answered prompts has become a platform for autonomous digital coworkers—agents that watch, act, and coordinate without a human pulling the trigger each time. This is not incremental product...

Meta’s purchase of Manus — a fast-growing, Singapore‑based startup that built a viral, general‑purpose autonomous agent — marks a decisive pivot in the company’s AI strategy and accelerates Meta’s shift from research and infrastructure toward deployable, revenue‑generating agentic products...

Meta’s purchase of Manus, a fast-growing Singapore-based startup that built a viral “general-purpose” autonomous agent, marks a decisive pivot in the company’s AI playbook and could reshape how intelligent assistants move from chat to real-world execution across billions of social-media users...

Microsoft’s latest Windows Insider preview quietly pulled a thread that could unravel into one of the biggest platform plays of the AI era: by adding a system-level registry for autonomous software “agents,” Microsoft is trying to make Windows the home for persistent, context-aware assistants —...

The idea that today’s generative models—ChatGPT-style systems, Codex agents, and the latest multimodal behemoths—are a single step away from runaway, self-improving superintelligence is seductive, but wrongheaded in its simplest form: we are closer than most people realize to AI systems that can...

Microsoft’s product roadmap at Ignite has quietly but unmistakably moved the enterprise conversation from “what a chatbot can answer” to “what an autonomous worker can do.” The new battleground is not a better prompt or a faster LLM; it is a model-and-policy stack that treats AI agents as...

Microsoft’s Ignite keynote and product pages have confirmed a deliberate step toward making enterprise data “meaningful” to both people and machines: Fabric IQ, introduced as a preview capability inside Microsoft Fabric, layers semantic intelligence over analytics, time‑series, geospatial and...

Balfour Beatty’s decision to commit £7.2 million to Microsoft 365 Copilot is a pivotal moment for AI in construction — and its CIO, Jon Ozanne, is blunt about what will separate winners from laggards: the organizations that will thrive are those where HR and IT work in lockstep. Background /...

Microsoft’s deputy CISO for Identity lays out a clear warning: autonomous agents are moving from experiments to production, and without new identity, access, data, and runtime controls they will create risks that are fundamentally different from those posed by traditional users and service...

Google’s Gemini is quietly testing a set of new experimental modes — Agent Mode, Gemini Go, and an Immersive View — that together signal a deliberate shift from single‑turn chat toward agentic, creative, and visually driven workflows inside the Gemini workspace. Early UI discoveries reported by...

A seismic shift is underway in the world of enterprise technology, as industry giants reimagine what it means to compete in the age of artificial intelligence and cloud computing. NTT DATA—a global powerhouse in IT services with revenues exceeding $30 billion—has responded with decisive action...

The age of digital transformation has transitioned from an anticipated future to a defining reality where continuous disruption is now the standard. Artificial intelligence, quantum computing, intelligent agents, and other transformative technologies are already changing the business landscape...

In an era defined by relentless technological transformation, the challenge for security leadership has never been greater. As artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and intelligent agents take center stage in reshaping business operations, the line between innovation and vulnerability...

Microsoft’s most recent year-end financial results have electrified the technology sector, with industry watchers labeling the company’s growth as not merely impressive, but unparalleled in its history. Underscoring this performance is a narrative that’s increasingly shaping the global...

The artificial intelligence world is bracing for a watershed moment as OpenAI prepares to unveil GPT-5, the most anticipated generative language model since ChatGPT’s public debut. Despite a climate of almost feverish speculation, seasoned analysts caution that the leap to GPT-5 may be less...

OpenAI has recently unveiled a significant enhancement to ChatGPT, introducing an autonomous agent capable of executing complex, multi-step tasks. This development marks a pivotal shift in AI capabilities, transitioning from mere conversational assistance to proactive task completion. The newly...

Oracle’s recent integration of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into its Database platform marks a watershed moment for AI-driven database access, reflecting broader shifts in enterprise IT toward automation, intelligent observability, and streamlined developer experiences. By weaving MCP—an...