Anthropic’s decision to donate the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to a newly created Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) hosted under the Linux Foundation signals a deliberate industry move to treat the plumbing of agentic AI—how models discover, call and govern external tools—as neutral...
NinjaTech AI’s announcement that it has joined the Linux Foundation’s newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) as a Silver member is a practical footnote in a much larger industry pivot: three working, production-oriented artifacts—Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), Block’s goose...
Apple’s AI leadership has been reshuffled at a pivotal moment: long‑time AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down to become an adviser and retire in spring 2026, while Amar Subramanya — a senior engineering leader with deep experience at Google and a brief stint at Microsoft — joins Apple as...
Microsoft this week expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal productivity assistant into a suite of context‑aware team agents that live inside Teams channels, SharePoint sites, Viva Engage communities, and meetings — agents that can prepare agendas, take notes, manage projects, tag and...
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Work is changing shape: Microsoft is shifting Microsoft 365 Copilot from a personal assistant into a set of collaboration-first agents that live inside Teams, SharePoint, and Viva Engage — effectively giving every team, meeting, project, and community an AI teammate that acts on shared context...
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Microsoft’s latest push to plant Copilot into every corner of Teams marks a decisive shift: AI is moving from a personal “assistant” to a collaborative, agent-driven layer that lives inside meetings, channels, SharePoint workspaces, and Viva Engage communities. The company announced new...
Microsoft is expanding the reach of AI inside Teams with a public preview of Project Manager agent skills that aim to turn meeting chatter and channel conversations into tracked, actionable work — but the feature brings licensing, governance, and operational caveats that IT teams must weigh...
SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry is now available inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing conversational, actionable industrial intelligence directly into the collaboration surface used by frontline operators and engineers — a move that promises to reduce context switching...
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Microsoft’s latest Copilot wave tightens two threads that have run through its product roadmap all year: push AI into everyday work for specific job roles, and make it easier for developers and IT teams to build, test, govern, and connect those assistants to the systems that power enterprise...
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SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry is now embedded directly into Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), bringing real‑time industrial intelligence, automated workflows, and role‑based copilots into the flow of frontline work—and changing how manufacturing and...
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SymphonyAI’s IRIS Foundry now appears directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, promising to move industrial AI from dashboards and backrooms into the daily workflows of plant operators and frontline teams—using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to connect OT data, AI reasoning...
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Accordance’s public launch this week signals a new phase in AI for tax and accounting: the startup bills itself as an “AI brain” that bundles specialized regulatory knowledge, a multi‑agent reasoning system, and integrations designed for professional workflows — all backed by a recent $13...
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Artificial intelligence would have told Pete Carroll to hand the ball to Marshawn Lynch.
The verdict — blunt, repeatable and nearly universal among modern analysts — is now being echoed by the same generative models that pundits and teams are experimenting with at the edge of NFL operations. Yet...
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Microsoft has pushed a first public look at Visual Studio 2026 — billed internally as Visual Studio 18 and distributed through a new "Insiders" channel — and the headline is simple: Microsoft has folded much deeper AI into the IDE while polishing the look, settings, and model control surface...
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Microsoft’s new Agent Factory narrative makes a simple but decisive argument: building a single clever agent is no longer enough—real business value arrives when agents, tools, and enterprise systems interoperate through open protocols, enterprise connectors, and built‑in governance so agents...
Visual Studio 2026’s first Insiders build lands as a clear statement: Microsoft intends to make AI the connective tissue of the IDE while simultaneously modernizing Visual Studio’s foundation for the .NET 10 era. At VSLive! San Diego Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio 2026 (internal version 18.0)...
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Microsoft’s latest push to make AI the fabric of the developer experience landed with bold claims and a mixed reception: a new Insiders Channel debut, a purported Visual Studio 2026/18.0 milestone that folds GitHub Copilot into the IDE in deeper, agentic ways, and a feature set tuned for speed...
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Microsoft’s reported decision to integrate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 into Microsoft 365 marks a deliberate and consequential step away from a single‑provider AI strategy and toward a multi‑model, standards‑based future for enterprise productivity tools. This move — first reported today by...
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Microsoft and Cloudflare’s push to make websites “AI‑search friendly” is more than a product announcement — it’s an attempt to rewire how content is discovered, attributed, and monetized on the web by combining Microsoft’s NLWeb protocol with Cloudflare’s managed AutoRAG pipeline. The idea is...
Microsoft and Cloudflare have quietly handed website owners a practical toolset to turn ordinary pages into AI‑friendly, conversational endpoints — a move that could accelerate the shift from traditional, keyword‑based search toward answer engines and materially reshape how traffic, attribution...