enterprise governance

commercetools has introduced Agentic Jumpstart, a packaged enterprise offering designed to help large retailers and brands move quickly into “agentic commerce” — the emerging channel where AI assistants and autonomous agents discover, recommend, and transact on behalf of customers. Announced in...

Since Gamma AI exploded into popularity as a rapid, narrative-first slide and web-publishing tool, a steady chorus of users has pushed back on specific pain points — pricing friction, limited export fidelity for complex decks, and design rigidity for heavy customization — and a thriving set of...

Agentic AI browsers have moved the model from “answering about the web” to operating on the web, and four products—OpenAI’s ChatGPT Atlas, Microsoft Edge with Copilot Mode, The Browser Company’s Dia, and Perplexity’s Comet—now embody different trade‑offs between autonomy, memory, and security...

Agentic AI browsers have moved the model from “answering about the web” to operating on the web, and that shift is now reshaping privacy, security, and productivity expectations for every kind of user. Background / Overview The term agentic browser describes a class of browsers that expose page...

Microsoft’s Copilot has taken a decisive step from a conversational assistant to a no-code builder: employees in eligible tenants can now ask Copilot to generate working applications, automated workflows, and lightweight AI agents using plain-English prompts — no coding required. Background /...

Microsoft’s latest “Customer Zero” dispatch on agentic AI marks a clear turning point: the company is no longer talking about copilots as optional helpers but is actively provisioning identity-bearing, auditable agents across Microsoft 365—built with Copilot Studio, run on Azure AI Foundry, and...

Microsoft’s short announcement that “Windows is evolving into an agentic OS” landed like a splinter in a long‑running conversation about AI, control, and the purpose of the personal computer — and the reaction makes one thing clear: many Windows users are not interested in an operating system...

OpenAI’s newest model update, GPT‑5.1, arrived as an evolutionary rather than revolutionary step—promising faster answers for routine requests, deeper multi‑step reasoning when needed, new developer tools for editing and shell access, and a broader set of conversational personalities designed to...

Microsoft’s vision for an “agentic web” — sketched in a TechSparks 2025 masterclass by Salim Naim, Director of AI at Microsoft Asia — frames the current AI moment as a platform transition from static pages and app-centric workflows to autonomous, intent-driven agents that act, negotiate and...

Anthropic’s latest move puts Claude directly inside the spreadsheet cells that drive Wall Street: the company has launched a research-preview add-in, Claude for Excel, tied to live financial feeds and pre-built analyst workflows — a deliberate push to make Claude the default AI assistant for...

Microsoft’s push to make agentic AI a practical engineering discipline arrived in force this year with the public preview of the Microsoft Agent Framework and a coordinated set of platform pieces—local SDKs for Python and .NET, VS Code authoring tools, and a managed cloud runtime in Azure AI...

Microsoft has started exposing the GPT‑5.1 model family inside Microsoft Copilot Studio as an experimental option for U.S. customers enrolled in early‑release Power Platform environments, giving builders and administrators an early look at a model tuned for adaptive thinking time across chat and...

KPMG’s announcement that it has earned additional Microsoft AI credentials — namely advanced specializations for AI for Microsoft Copilot and Build AI Apps on Microsoft Azure — is more than a badge change; it signals a deliberate push by one of the Big Four to convert early AI experimentation...

Microsoft has quietly paused the public rollout of File Explorer’s new Recommended files surface and the accompanying StorageProvider APIs, reversing a staged release that began appearing in preview builds on October 28 and was pulled back in the changelog on November 5. Background / Overview...

Nebius’ Token Factory arrives as a bold gambit in the intensifying AI cloud race, promising enterprises an end-to-end platform to run and govern open-source and custom large language models (LLMs) at production scale while directly challenging industry giants such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web...

Nebius has launched Token Factory, a production-grade AI inference platform that promises enterprises a turnkey way to deploy, fine-tune, and run the world’s leading open-source large language models at scale — positioning itself as a direct challenger to Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services...

Houston’s leading employers are treating AI less as a speculative technology and more as an operational playbook: measured pilots, role‑specific training, and layered governance are now the default approach rather than headline-grabbing lab experiments. Background The conversation about...

Nebius this week unveiled a production-grade “Open AI Platform” — marketed as Nebius Token Factory — a full‑stack inference and model‑lifecycle product pitched as an enterprise alternative to hyperscaler AI services and designed to host, fine‑tune and run open‑weight models at scale. Background...

The free-AI chatbot era that began in 2022 has matured into a full-blown ecosystem battle in 2025 — a practical, messy, and often brilliant landscape where ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek, and Meta AI each stake a claim to being the “best” assistant...

Pantone’s new Palette Generator brings decades of color expertise into a conversational AI assistant embedded in Pantone Connect, promising to compress hours of trend research and palette ideation into seconds while raising important questions about color fidelity, provenance, licensing and...