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Microsoft appears to be preparing the next big step in its enterprise AI playbook: internal discussions and media reports say the company is weighing a premium Microsoft 365 “E7” enterprise SKU that would fold together Microsoft 365’s highest-tier productivity, security and analytics features...

OpenAI’s move to bring a stateful runtime to Amazon Web Services rewrites a key piece of the enterprise AI playbook: models are no longer just stateless engines answering one-off prompts, they’re becoming persistent, orchestrated workers that live inside cloud control planes. Announced February...

Microsoft’s internal deliberations over an “E7” Microsoft 365 bundle — a premium, AI-packed suite that could combine Microsoft Copilot, a forthcoming “Agent 365” hub, and other advanced services — have surfaced in multiple market reports this week, and the implications for enterprise IT...

OpenAI’s recent pivot toward Amazon Web Services marks a decisive moment in the AI infrastructure battle: the company that helped put the cloud‑delivered LLM on every corporate roadmap is now engineering product-level integrations for a rival cloud, even as it keeps one foot in its longtime...

Bloom Consulting Services’ announcement that it is expanding its Azure AI Services portfolio by integrating Microsoft Azure AI Foundry is a clear signal that mid‑market Azure partners are moving quickly to package Microsoft’s latest enterprise AI tooling into end‑to‑end offers for customers —...

Tonic.ai’s entry into Microsoft’s Pegasus Program and its move onto the Azure Marketplace mark a meaningful step toward unblocking enterprise AI projects by making privacy-compliant synthetic data easier to procure, integrate, and scale inside Microsoft Azure environments. Background: why...

Microsoft’s Global Skilling Learning Lab is showing how to combine human expertise and AI in practical, measurable ways — from shrinking research cycles with persona-based agents and the Researcher in Microsoft 365 Copilot, to using GitHub Copilot for continuous content maintenance and piloting...

Anthropic’s latest Claude Cowork update moves beyond chat to become an active productivity layer inside the apps knowledge workers already use, adding connectors for Google Drive, Gmail, and DocuSign and pushing the company deeper into the enterprise productivity market. Background Anthropic...

CData’s recent stretch into the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem marks a clear pivot: the company that spent years building universal connectors is now selling not just access to data, but the context that makes that data usable by agents and AI assistants in production. The launch of...

G‑STAR’s move to embed an AI assistant directly inside Microsoft Teams is a practical, culture-first example of how retailers can turn routine IT friction into a long‑term productivity platform—and a useful case study in designing enterprise AI that tries to be a colleague, not a gimmick...

Satya Nadella’s message in London is blunt and practical: the next phase of enterprise transformation isn’t optional tinkering with models — it’s redesigning work around agentic AI so organisations can delegate at scale and steer with minimal friction. Background / Overview Microsoft used its AI...

IBM’s new Enterprise Advantage service promises to turn the scattershot promise of “agentic AI” pilots into repeatable, governed production at enterprise scale — and it does so in public partnership with Microsoft, explicitly positioning Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft’s agent governance...

Microsoft’s Copilot has quietly crossed a threshold: no longer a single chatbot tucked into an office suite, it has become a layered platform that spans Windows, Edge, Microsoft 365, Copilot Labs experiments and — increasingly — government and enterprise deployments. The latest wave of feature...

Anthropic’s latest push into the workplace is not another flashy chatbot — it’s a practical redesign of how an AI assistant plugs into the systems people already use every day, and that shift changes the calculus for enterprise IT, legal, and productivity teams alike. Background Anthropic...

Microsoft’s AI message in London was unmistakable: make Copilot the interface for work, turn Microsoft 365 into the knowledge substrate for agentic AI, and give developers a full-stack platform to build, tune and govern enterprise agents at scale. Background The London leg of Microsoft’s AI Tour...

TQA’s move into an “agentic” identity and deeper integrations with Microsoft and ServiceNow is less a marketing pivot than a tactical response to a persistent challenge: how to turn generative AI pilots into dependable, governed, production-grade services that actually change business outcomes...

IBM’s new Enterprise Advantage repositions consulting as productized platform: a packaged stack of the company’s internal delivery assets, an agent marketplace, and a managed engagement model that promises to get enterprise organizations from pilots to production-grade, governed agentic AI...

In a short but pointed Cloud Wars conversation, Stoneridge Software CEO Eric Newell laid out a simple executive premise: organizations must move beyond AI experimentation and build the operational, security, and governance muscle needed to make Microsoft 365 Copilot (and the broader...

Intel has begun routing more of its customer and partner support through an AI assistant called Ask Intel, built on Microsoft’s Copilot Studio, as part of a broader shift to a “digital‑first” support model that scales back phone and social‑media intake and pushes case initiation into web...

Microsoft has quietly expanded Copilot Studio’s model roster: xAI’s Grok 4.1 Fast is now available in preview inside Microsoft Copilot Studio for select United States–based makers, offering a text‑only, fast‑reasoning option aimed at complex, agentic workflows while bringing fresh operational...