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Microsoft’s Copilot — the assistant Microsoft bet would make the company “AI‑first” — is no longer just an engineering experiment: it is now a strategic linchpin that is showing cracks in reliability, brand clarity, and measurable enterprise adoption, and those cracks are starting to matter to...

The Linux Foundation’s creation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) marks a decisive moment in the maturation of “agentic AI” — a coordinated, tool-enabled class of autonomous systems — by placing three rapidly adopted open projects from Anthropic, Block and OpenAI under a single neutral...

The European Commission has published the formal decisions explaining why it has opened market investigations to determine whether Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) should be regulated as gatekeeper cloud services under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), setting in motion a...

The Linux Foundation has launched the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a new neutral stewarding body meant to anchor open standards for interoperable, safety-minded AI agents — with Anthropic donating the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block contributing the goose agent framework, and OpenAI placing...

The Linux Foundation, joined by industry heavyweights including Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and Block, today announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) — a vendor-neutral steward intended to accelerate open standards, interoperability and governance for agentic AI, and to house...

Google’s decision to withdraw its formal EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft’s cloud practices is a swift, strategic pivot that hands the argument over to Brussels’ newly launched Digital Markets Act (DMA) market investigations — a move that reshapes the fight over cloud portability, vendor...

The European Commission has launched an unprecedented set of market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) that put Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure squarely in Brussels’ regulatory crosshairs — a move that could redraw the rules for cloud competition, interoperability...

The European Union’s competition machinery has turned its sights on the two biggest names in public cloud: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. In a move that could reshape how enterprises buy infrastructure, the European Commission has opened three formal inquiries under the Digital Markets...

The European Commission has opened three formal market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), signaling that Brussels is prepared to consider applying the DMA’s toughest obligations to large cloud providers — a move that could...

The cloud that underpins much of Europe’s digital economy hiccuped again this week: a configuration error in Microsoft’s Azure Front Door knocked large parts of Azure and Microsoft 365 offline on October 29, and — coming barely a week after a widespread AWS disruption — reignited a familiar...

Microsoft’s new open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, announced on October 1, 2025, aims to become the unified foundation for building, orchestrating, and deploying agentic AI applications across enterprise environments, bringing together ideas from Semantic Kernel and AutoGen while adding...

UiPath’s agentic automation platform has taken a concrete step toward native cross‑cloud AI orchestration by integrating Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry capabilities — a move that wires Microsoft’s model catalog, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tooling, and Copilot experiences into UiPath’s Maestro...

The London Stock Exchange Group’s new Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) — built in collaboration with Microsoft and running on Microsoft Azure — has gone live for tokenised private funds and already processed its first commercial transaction, marking a deliberate shift from pilot projects to...

Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 Insider builds are shipping a new, full-screen renewal prompt aimed at lapsed Microsoft 365 subscriptions — an eye-catching SCOOBE (Second‑Chance Out‑of‑Box Experience) screen that insiders and early reports describe as a full‑screen nag to renew rather than a...

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...

The Cabinet Office has quietly handed responsibility for its long-running, much-delayed migration from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 (M365) to another government unit, effectively changing the delivery model for the Falcon IT Platform Refresh and Migration programme and halving the project’s...

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has launched a cloud-native, blockchain-enabled Digital Markets Infrastructure (DMI) platform built with Microsoft Azure to digitise the full private‑funds lifecycle — from issuance and tokenisation through distribution, settlement and ongoing servicing — and...

Cloud providers’ September previews are not incremental checkbox updates; they are a clear signal that enterprises expect AI clouds to be more than high‑performance models — they must be secure, auditable, and operationally mature enough to run production workloads at scale. Background...

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Workday and Microsoft have announced a close technical alignment that will let AI “agents”—software entities built in Microsoft’s developer stack—receive directory-backed identities and be managed, governed, and audited inside Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), creating a single plane...