Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...
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Microsoft’s move to embed a free, in‑app Copilot Chat across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote marks a turning point: conversational AI is no longer an optional plugin for a few power users, it’s being positioned as a default productivity layer for Microsoft 365 business customers...
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Workday and Microsoft quietly stitched together a practical bridge between identity, runtime, and business context for AI agents—an integration that promises to make digital workers first-class citizens in enterprise HR, finance, and security systems while raising new questions about governance...
Microsoft has begun embedding a persistent, context‑aware Copilot Chat pane directly inside the Microsoft 365 apps people use every day — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote — and is making that conversational AI experience available to qualifying Microsoft 365 subscribers at no...
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Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...
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Workday and Microsoft have announced a close technical alignment that will let AI “agents”—software entities built in Microsoft’s developer stack—receive directory-backed identities and be managed, governed, and audited inside Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), creating a single plane...
SymphonyAI’s industrial AI platform, IRIS Foundry, is now directly available inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot via the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—bringing real‑time operational visibility, contextualized plant data, and automated workflows into the exact collaboration surface...
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SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry is now embedded directly into Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), bringing real‑time industrial intelligence, automated workflows, and role‑based copilots into the flow of frontline work—and changing how manufacturing and...
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SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry now appears directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move industrial AI from dashboards and backrooms into the daily workflows of plant operators and frontline teams—using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect OT data, AI reasoning...
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Workday and Microsoft have quietly stepped into the next phase of enterprise automation: they’re building the plumbing to let agentic AI workers — digital agents created in Microsoft’s developer ecosystem — obtain verified identities, join a corporate directory, and be managed alongside human...
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Westpac has begun rolling out Microsoft Copilot Studio across its organisation, giving cross‑functional teams the tools to design, publish and scale generative‑AI agents that can sit inside Microsoft 365, Teams and customer‑facing channels—part of a broader push by the bank to industrialise AI...
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The path from AI hype to steady, measurable value is rarely a straight line; New Era Technology’s conversation with UC Today — led by Kristian McCann and Steve Daly — lays out a pragmatic playbook for moving organizations beyond AI disillusionment and into sustained Copilot adoption. The central...
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Microsoft’s MAI launch is a deliberate pivot: the company is taking the pieces it once licensed, packaging them with native infrastructure and orchestration tools, and betting the future of productivity on a team of specialized agents rather than a single, monolithic brain. This matters for...
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Spotify, Apple and Microsoft all pushed meaningful updates this week that matter to Windows power users: Spotify has finally switched on lossless audio for Premium subscribers across more than 50 markets (including New Zealand) at no extra cost, Apple unveiled the ultra‑thin iPhone Air that...
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Microsoft’s latest packaging of its agent-building tools — now split into Copilot Studio Lite and the Copilot Studio Full Experience — is less a rename and more a strategic reframe: the company is clarifying who these tools are for, where they run, and how enterprises should govern them. The...
Zenity’s expanded integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio embeds inline, real‑time attack prevention directly into Copilot Studio agents, promising step‑level policy enforcement, data‑exfiltration controls, and telemetry for enterprises that want to scale agentic AI without surrendering...
Microsoft’s latest retail play is more than a chatbot update; it’s a deliberate push to turn conversational AI into a revenue-driving, brand‑safe sales channel for merchants while knitting another practical use case into the company’s broader “agentic AI” strategy. The Personal Shopping Agent —...
Microsoft’s enterprise AI push has reached a new milestone with Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business now positioned as a paid, tenant-grade add‑on that embeds generative AI across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and a growing set of agent-driven automation tools — and with that promise...
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Microsoft used the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology Conference to lay down a clear, product‑level road map for how it expects AI to reshape the enterprise — centering that plan on Microsoft 365 Copilot, a multi‑model infrastructure called Azure AI Foundry, and a “front end as platform”...
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ISDI’s new partnership with Microsoft turns generative AI from classroom theory into a tangible career asset for Executive MBA students, embedding agent-building and Copilot-powered workflows directly into the school’s flagship MIB program so graduates leave with a trained, exportable AI agent...
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