Microsoft’s internal rollout of the Licensing Navigator — an AI agent built on Azure AI Services and authored in Microsoft Copilot Studio — is a striking demonstration of how enterprise AI can turn slow, specialist-led tasks into near-instant, context‑aware guidance for employees. According to...
Dayforce’s move to embed Microsoft’s Copilot tooling and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into its single‑platform Human Capital Management (HCM) system marks a decisive inflection point for how HR, payroll, and operations teams will use agent-driven automation — promising tighter Microsoft...
Dayforce’s announcement that it is deepening its collaboration with Microsoft marks a consequential moment for enterprise HCM: AI agents, Copilot Studio connectivity, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration are being folded directly into Dayforce’s single, unified people platform — a move...
Dayforce’s announcement that it is deepening its collaboration with Microsoft marks a consequential step toward embedding trustworthy, enterprise-grade AI into core human capital management workflows, bringing AI agents, a new AI workspace, and expanded Azure-native integration to HR, payroll...
UiPath’s agentic automation platform has taken a concrete step toward native cross‑cloud AI orchestration by integrating Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry capabilities — a move that wires Microsoft’s model catalog, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tooling, and Copilot experiences into UiPath’s Maestro...
Anthropic's latest incremental release, Claude 4.5 (Sonnet 4.5), doubles down on a business-first play: the company says the model sustains long-horizon coding and agentic workflows, improves handling of finance and scientific reasoning, and is now being positioned directly into enterprise...
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is available today in Microsoft Copilot Studio, delivering Anthropic’s newest Sonnet-class model into Microsoft’s agent-building and orchestration surface and giving enterprise teams another high‑capability backend to choose when designing Copilot agents.
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Microsoft’s productivity stack just took another step toward agentic work: today’s rollout of Agent Mode in Excel and Word, plus a new Office Agent available from Copilot chat, promises to let everyday users build complex, auditable spreadsheets and full documents from simple natural‑language...
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Microsoft’s latest push into voice and agent AI marks a decisive expansion of Copilot’s capabilities: a high-performance, in‑house speech generator and a new text model intended to power agentic experiences, paired with a broader, multi‑model strategy that lets enterprises mix and match...
Microsoft has quietly but decisively retooled the architecture of Microsoft 365 Copilot: Anthropic’s Claude family — specifically Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — is now a selectable backend inside key Copilot surfaces, giving organizations real model choice inside Researcher and Copilot...
Microsoft's Copilot has quietly widened its model menu: users can now run Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 inside Copilot’s Researcher agent and as selectable models in Copilot Studio, giving organizations a straightforward way to compare OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft’s own...
Microsoft’s latest push to put “agents” at the center of work—through a native Agent Store inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and a unified Microsoft Marketplace web destination—moves the company from experimental tooling to a platform play designed to make AI agents discoverable, governable, and...
Microsoft quietly handed enterprise IT teams a new lever in the Copilot era: Microsoft 365 Copilot now offers Anthropic’s Claude models — notably Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — as selectable backends inside the Researcher reasoning agent and the Copilot Studio agent-building surface...
Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a decisive step from a single‑vendor architecture toward a managed, multi‑model platform by adding Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 as selectable engines inside the Researcher reasoning agent and Copilot Studio, a move that delivers practical model...
Microsoft quietly turned Microsoft 365 Copilot from a single‑vendor assistant into a multi‑model orchestration platform by adding Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 as selectable back‑ends in Copilot’s Researcher agent and Copilot Studio, while making clear that OpenAI models will...
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Microsoft has quietly rewritten a crucial line in the Copilot playbook: business customers can now choose between OpenAI and Anthropic models inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 joining the model roster for enterprise reasoning...
Microsoft’s decision to add Anthropic’s Claude models to Microsoft 365 Copilot marks a clear and deliberate pivot from a single-source AI strategy to a multi-model, multi-provider approach—one designed to give enterprise customers choice, reduce vendor risk, and accelerate feature innovation...
Microsoft's Microsoft 365 Copilot is no longer a single‑vendor show: starting today the company is adding Anthropic’s Claude family — notably Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 — as selectable backends inside Copilot, giving organizations the ability to route specific Copilot workloads to...
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Microsoft’s Copilot is getting a new set of study‑and‑play features that turn the assistant from a passive helper into an active quizmaster — users can now ask Copilot to generate quizzes across history, math, science, and pop culture, use interactive Quiz Cards, and even deploy quiz-style...
Asda has expanded its multi‑year collaboration with Microsoft in a deal the retailer and vendors portray as a major step in turning the supermarket into a cloud‑first, AI‑driven business — establishing Microsoft Azure as Asda’s primary cloud platform and bringing tools such as Microsoft Fabric...