copilot agents

Microsoft’s Work IQ is a Microsoft 365 intelligence layer, detailed by Microsoft Digital in June 2026, that lets Copilot and agents reason across emails, files, chats, meetings, calendars, SharePoint content, and connected business systems while preserving tenant permissions and compliance...

Microsoft introduced Microsoft Scout on June 2, 2026, at Build in San Francisco and online as its first “Autopilot” agent for Microsoft 365, an always-on OpenClaw-based assistant that works through Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, SharePoint, the desktop, the browser, and governed Entra identity. The...

Microsoft Build 2026 runs June 2–3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and online, with Microsoft expected to focus less on a hypothetical Windows 12 reveal and more on AI agents, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Windows AI tooling, and the developer plumbing behind its next software cycle...

Microsoft 365 Premium’s Copilot Analyst and Researcher agents were tested by ZDNET’s Ed Bott in late May and early June 2026 on ordinary productivity and troubleshooting jobs, and the result was a pattern of plausible advice, broken handoffs, and confident but ineffective problem solving. The...

Microsoft announced Scout at Build on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, as an always-on workplace AI agent for Teams, email, calendars, and Microsoft 365 tasks, initially launching with a small customer group and a Frontier-access desktop app tied to GitHub Copilot. That makes Scout less a chatbot than a...

Merge announced on June 2, 2026, in New York that its Agent Handler will come to the Microsoft Agent Store, giving Microsoft 365 agents a governed way to connect with third-party business systems through Model Context Protocol-based tooling. The announcement is not merely another integration...

Microsoft opened Build 2026 on June 2 in San Francisco with a Windows AI push centered on local models, Nvidia RTX Spark hardware, and developer tooling meant to move Copilot-style agents from cloud demos into everyday PCs. That is the factual headline, but it undersells the strategic turn...

Microsoft Build 2026 opens today, June 2, at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, with Satya Nadella’s keynote scheduled for 12:30 p.m. ET and expected to center on Windows, Copilot, Microsoft 365, and AI developer tooling. The timing is not accidental: Microsoft is using Build, alongside...

Microsoft Build 2026 is scheduled for June 2–3, 2026, at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and online, with Satya Nadella opening the conference at 10 a.m. Pacific on June 2 before an audience Microsoft is explicitly narrowing around AI developers, technical leaders, and enterprise builders...

Microsoft began rolling out new agentic Copilot capabilities for Outlook in spring 2026, giving eligible Microsoft 365 Copilot users in the Frontier program tools that can manage inbox triage, draft and refine messages, handle calendar preferences, and act across mail and meetings in Outlook on...

Microsoft is extending Dynamics 365 Business Central with Copilot and autonomous AI agents across the 2025 release wave, bringing built-in automation for sales orders, payables, invoice matching, summaries, and partner-built agent scenarios to its cloud ERP customers. The move is less about...

Microsoft’s Copilot story has moved decisively beyond chatbot convenience and into the more ambitious territory of agentic productivity, where AI systems do not merely answer questions but plan, coordinate, and execute work across business applications. The latest wave of Copilot capabilities...

Microsoft’s latest move inside Word, Excel, and PowerPoint marks an important turning point for its productivity suite. What The Verge called “vibe working” is now, in Microsoft’s own language, the arrival of agentic capabilities: Copilot can take multi-step actions directly inside Office files...

As Microsoft and Google push AI deeper into everyday work surfaces, CIOs are confronting a security problem that looks familiar on paper but behaves very differently in practice. The issue is no longer just where data goes; it is what AI can do with that data once it is inside the browser...

Microsoft’s Copilot strategy has crossed a line that matters for every serious Microsoft 365 customer: the company is no longer treating Copilot as a clever drafting layer, but as an agentic execution platform that can plan, act, and return finished work across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook...

Microsoft’s March 2026 Copilot wave shows a clear shift in strategy: Microsoft 365 Copilot is no longer being marketed as a helpful sidekick for drafting and summarizing, but as an agentic work layer that can edit, recap, govern, and even assemble content across the Microsoft 365 stack. The...

Frontier Transformation Is Microsoft’s New Pitch for the AI Era Microsoft’s latest AI Decision Brief arrives with a clear message: organizations have moved past the novelty phase of generative AI, but most have not yet turned it into durable business advantage. The company is reframing the...

Microsoft is making a sweeping bet that enterprise AI has moved beyond chat, and the latest Copilot wave is its clearest proof yet. With Copilot Cowork, Agent 365, Work IQ, and the new Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite, the company is reframing AI as an execution layer for work rather than a...

Anthropic’s Claude experienced a high-profile service disruption on March 2, 2026, leaving users worldwide unable to access the web app and causing intermittent failures across Claude.ai, the developer console, and Claude Code before the company rolled out fixes and began monitoring recovery...

Microsoft’s latest wave of updates pushes Microsoft 365 Copilot from an assistant into a platform: new Copilot Actions, domain-aware agents, a Copilot Control System for IT, and analytics that promise to measure real business impact — all designed to make AI-driven workflows both more powerful...