enterprise governance

IPT’s practical push to turn Microsoft Copilot into a team of specialised, role-based AI agents reframes AI from an experimental chatbot into a production-ready set of digital employees — and it arrives with clear promises, manageable engineering patterns, and governance headaches that every CIO...

Anthropic’s Claude has quietly moved from a research chat assistant into the spreadsheet at the center of corporate finance, with a beta “Claude for Excel” add‑in that places a Claude sidebar inside Microsoft Excel and positions the startup as a direct challenger to Microsoft’s Copilot in...

AI-powered browsers are no longer a speculative fringe — they are actively reshaping how people navigate, research, buy and protect their data online, and that transformation brings both tangible productivity wins and serious new risks that demand urgent enterprise and public-policy attention...

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has signaled a clear shift in hiring strategy: after a year of multiple workforce reductions, the company will add employees again — but only in roles that are amplified by artificial intelligence, not by returning to the pre‑AI era of headcount-driven scale...

The AI landscape of 2025 is no longer an experiment — it’s a working set of tools that billions of people use daily to write, design, search, code, chat and create media — and a handful of platforms now dominate that activity while reshaping risk, policy and enterprise practice. Background /...

Suncorp’s move from experimentation to “full‑scale delivery” of agentic AI — with a cross‑functional execution roadmap, internal agent platform and live customer pilots — is a sober, deliberate step that crystallises how a large, regulated insurer intends to convert the promise of autonomous...

Microsoft’s move to give its Researcher agent a permissioned “Computer Use” capability — effectively a temporary, Microsoft‑hosted virtual computer the agent can operate to browse, sign in, click, type and even run short command‑line tests — marks the next practical stage in agentic AI: not just...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot push pushes AI deeper into the Windows desktop: Microsoft 365 Copilot is now embedded inside the new taskbar‑centric People and Files companion apps for Windows 11, with Calendar support scheduled to follow shortly — a change that promises faster discovery and summary...

Neudesic’s new Digital Workforce Management offering promises to treat AI agents as first‑class “digital employees,” provisioning, orchestrating and governing fleets of autonomous and semi‑autonomous agents on Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry while extending Neudesic’s system integrator expertise...

Microsoft’s Copilot tooling and Azure OpenAI Assistants have moved rapidly from demonstrations to production-ready building blocks, and local meetups — like the LeedsSharp session titled “Copilot studios and Azure OpenAI Assistants” — are now the front lines where developers and IT pros decode...

RIB Software has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to embed Azure cloud and AI services — explicitly including Azure AI Foundry and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) — across RIB’s construction software portfolio, positioning the company to deliver AI-native workflows for...

Windows 11’s quiet October feature drop is the kind of update that doesn’t crash your workload but quietly rearranges the things you do every day—Start, File Explorer, battery icons, voice dictation, photo edits, privacy prompts, and even recovery. What arrived in the servicing stream and the...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot update folds AI directly into the social fabric of Teams, enabling real-time, multi-person co-creation inside group chats and shared sessions — a move that turns Copilot from a solo assistant into an active collaborator for teams. Background Microsoft has been steadily...

Microsoft’s decision to let Copilot join Teams group chats changes how collaboration and AI assistance intersect inside organizations, enabling the assistant to summarize threads, draft agendas, pull information from accessible files and web results, and participate as a visible chat participant...

Microsoft’s Copilot has been given a face — a deliberately nonhuman, animated mascot called Mico — as part of a broad Fall update that stitches voice, memory, collaboration and browser agenting into a single consumer-facing vision for an always-present assistant on Windows and in Edge. The...

Microsoft’s newest attempt to put a friendly face on AI arrived this week in the form of Mico, an animated, non‑human avatar built into Copilot’s voice experience — part of a broader Copilot Fall Release that also adds group sessions, a “Real Talk” mode, Learn Live tutoring flows, and expanded...

Microsoft’s new Copilot avatar, Mico, arrives as a deliberate attempt to give the company’s virtual assistant a friendly, non‑human face while avoiding the UX mistakes that made Clippy a cautionary tale — but the move also widens the product’s technical and governance footprint in ways that...

The new era of Copilot has arrived as a platform, not just a feature, and it’s now reachable from nearly every surface where people work: a web hub, dedicated mobile and desktop apps, built‑in Windows affordances, Microsoft 365 in‑app panes, and browser integrations that keep the assistant at...

Microsoft’s latest Copilot refresh puts a deliberately playful face on Windows 11 AI: an animated avatar called Mico that appears in Copilot’s voice mode, changes color and shape to signal listening or thinking, and is explicitly designed as an optional, friendlier way to make voice-first...

Microsoft’s Copilot is moving beyond a chat box into the operating system itself: Microsoft has begun rolling out a coordinated set of features that add hands‑free voice, screen‑aware assistance, and limited agentic automation to Windows 11 and Edge, and recent teasers point to a visible Copilot...