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Microsoft said on June 16, 2026, that it is moving Copilot Cowork toward usage-based billing and is considering a Microsoft-hosted DeepSeek model as a lower-cost option for enterprise customers using the agentic Microsoft 365 tool. That is not just another model picker in a settings pane. It is...

Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available worldwide on June 16, 2026, with usage-based billing for enterprise customers, while Axios reports the company is considering a Microsoft-hosted, fine-tuned DeepSeek model as a lower-cost option for the agentic workplace tool. That single pricing...

Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork, its enterprise agent for Microsoft 365 work, to usage-based billing as of its broader 2026 rollout, while reportedly considering an Azure-hosted, fine-tuned DeepSeek V4 option to lower model costs for customers. That is the immediate news, but the larger...

Legal & General announced on June 16, 2026, that it has expanded its Microsoft partnership through a new three-year agreement covering Microsoft 365 Copilot deployment for 10,000 global employees and broader Azure use to modernise platforms and improve customer service. The deal is not just...

Legal & General has signed a new three-year agreement with Microsoft to expand Microsoft 365 Copilot across its 10,000 global employees and deepen its use of Azure as the UK financial services group modernises customer service, data platforms, and internal operations. The announcement is not...

Smartsheet on June 11, 2026, expanded its MCP Server to connect Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT to live Smartsheet work data, while also introducing Smart Assist as an in-product AI companion for users who stay inside the platform. The announcement is less about...

Microsoft reportedly restricted employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 this week after Anthropic introduced mandatory data-retention rules for its Mythos-class models, requiring prompts and outputs to be kept for 30 days and potentially longer when safety systems flag content for...

Smartsheet said on June 11, 2026, in Bellevue, Washington, that enterprise customers can connect ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise to its Model Context Protocol server, adding those assistants to existing Claude support and introducing a native Smart Assist companion...

Smartsheet announced in June 2026 that its MCP Server now connects with ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot and Google Cloud Gemini Enterprise, while also adding Smart Assist inside the Smartsheet platform for customers that want AI help without leaving the application. The move is less about another...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees on The New York Times’ Hard Fork podcast in June 2026 that they should stop reflexively using the most powerful AI systems for routine work and instead let products such as Copilot route tasks to cheaper, appropriate models. His line — “Don’t use...

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI chief, has clarified that his February 2026 prediction about AI reaching human-level performance on most professional tasks within 12 to 18 months referred to the automation of work activities, not the wholesale elimination of white-collar jobs. The walk-back...

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9, 2026, making its first Mythos-class model broadly available through the Claude API while routing high-risk cybersecurity, biology, chemistry, and model-distillation requests to the less capable Claude Opus 4.8 model instead. The move is less a normal...

NHS England has announced a national rollout of Microsoft 365 Copilot to 505,000 clinicians and support staff, giving workers across English trusts access to Microsoft’s AI assistant for administration, analysis, document drafting, workflow automation, and internal service support. The stated...

AI backlash is growing in 2026 because public trust, workplace adoption, energy politics, and investor confidence are all colliding at once, as recent polling, data center fights, and increasingly extravagant industry claims expose the gap between Silicon Valley’s promises and ordinary users’...

Visual Studio Code 1.117, released in April 2026 for Windows, macOS, Linux, and the web, adds Bring Your Own Key support for Copilot Business and Enterprise users while tightening the editor’s chat, agent, terminal, and TypeScript experience. The headline is not that VS Code got another AI...

Microsoft announced Scout on June 2, 2026, as an always-on AI agent for Microsoft 365, while a leaked internal planning document reported the same day said the first phase of the project was to “make people addicted.” That collision between product launch and internal language is the story, not...

Northern Light Group is positioning its SinglePoint AI platform as a governed enterprise intelligence system that gives strategy teams access to licensed research, curated market data, patents, filings, and scientific literature that general-purpose AI tools often cannot legally or reliably use...

AI assistants from Microsoft, Google, and Apple are now embedded across mainstream productivity suites, browsers, operating systems, and mobile platforms, forcing IT teams in 2026 to disable unwanted AI features through layered policy, licensing, network, and device-management controls. The...

NVIDIA and Microsoft announced RTX Spark on May 31, 2026, at GTC Taipei, pitching a new class of Windows laptops and compact desktops built around a 1-petaflop NVIDIA superchip, up to 128GB of unified memory, and local AI agents arriving from major PC makers this fall. The headline sounds like...

Fujifilm’s Australian AI advisory pitch in June 2026 argues that enterprises should stop treating “AI” as a sprawling abstraction and instead turn Microsoft 365 Copilot into measurable, governed business value through task-level redesign, disciplined data boundaries, and incremental adoption...