Cisco's Webex portfolio just accelerated from AI assistance to agentic action — a shift that aims to make meetings, contact centers, and room devices not just smarter, but actively useful: creating action items, scheduling follow-ups, running receptionist tasks, and even helping IT run and heal...
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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The conversation around artificial intelligence and work has moved from abstract speculation to hard-edged debate — and a recent poll-driven piece on Windows Central captures that anxiety in stark terms while pointing to concrete research showing which roles are already feeling pressure...
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Workday’s alignment with Microsoft marks a pragmatic shift from pilot-era AI experiments toward a governed, identity-first model for scaling agentic automation inside the enterprise, giving organizations a single plane to register, manage, and measure both human workers and AI agents across HR...
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Microsoft, Nvidia and Google now sit at the center of the agentic AI conversation — and if your organization is planning to deploy autonomous, task‑completing agents at scale, you will almost certainly be doing business with one or more of them.
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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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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 Copilot Studio updates push AI deeper into the everyday mechanics of business by letting agents make routine approval decisions inside multistage workflows — automating rule-driven steps while keeping humans in the loop for exceptions and final sign‑off.
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If you rely on Windows Task Scheduler but secretly wish it had a friendlier interface, richer triggers, or workflow-style automation, here are four solid alternatives that can replace or augment Task Scheduler for everyday and power-user automation needs.
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Agents are only as capable as the tools you give them—and only as trustworthy as the governance behind those tools, and Microsoft’s new Agent Factory guidance in Azure AI Foundry makes that dual imperative the organizing principle for enterprise-grade agentic AI.
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Workflow automation is shifting from static scripts and scheduled jobs to adaptive, learning systems that augment human teams and drive measurable business outcomes right across the enterprise.
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Over the past five years automation has evolved from isolated macros, RPA bots...
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Azure’s new “Agent Factory” argument reframes the enterprise AI conversation: move beyond retrieval and chat to agents that reason, act, reflect, and collaborate—and use that capability to complete end-to-end business outcomes, not just return answers. The announcement and technical framing...
Crow Canyon Software has unveiled NITRO Studio AI, a comprehensive update to its automation platform for Microsoft 365 environments. This next-generation release is packed with artificial intelligence-powered features, integrating dynamic advancements across forms, workflows, and communication...
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Colonial First State (CFS), one of Australia’s leading wealth management firms, has embarked on a high-stakes artificial intelligence (AI) pilot in partnership with Avanade, the Microsoft and Accenture joint venture, signaling a major turning point in Australia’s financial services technology...
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GitHub Actions’ relentless pace of innovation shows no signs of slowing, with the latest announcement poised to reshape how developers and organizations manage workflow settings and automation environments. The recent unveiling of new REST APIs and a consequential migration of the...
The drive toward smarter, more automated systems has accelerated dramatically in recent years, fueled by breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), widespread adoption of low-code and no-code solutions, and a relentless pursuit of business efficiency. Today, organizations of every size are...
The landscape of workflow automation has undergone a fundamental transformation in the past few years, evolving from static, rules-based processes to adaptive, intelligence-infused systems that promise to redefine how organizations of all sizes operate. As businesses strive for agility...
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MCP, the Model Context Protocol, has now firmly established itself as the industry’s most consequential open standard for enterprise AI tool integration—a status cemented by rapid adoption from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and major players across the data, productivity, and workflow landscape...
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In a move that signals a paradigm shift in digital productivity, OpenAI’s latest upgrade to its popular AI assistant—now bestowed with so-called “ChatGPT Agents”—promises the kind of automation previously reserved for speculative fiction. This enhancement has instigated heated discussions...
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Imagine a workday where you no longer feel bogged down by repetitive tasks or the time-consuming minutiae that keep you from the real value-adding work you want to do. For many businesses, the promise of artificial intelligence has always been about boosting productivity, enhancing...
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