About this tag
Microsoft 365 Copilot is an AI-powered assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 apps, with recent developments including the cancellation of a license request justification field, new capabilities to query Power BI data, and expansion of agentic actions in government clouds. It is replacing features like Outlook Meeting Insights and Context IQ, requiring a paid license. Users can create custom agents for tasks like finance variance drafts, and new meeting search by topic or keyword has launched. Data governance is addressed through connectors like Infinnium for eDiscovery. These updates highlight ongoing changes in licensing, functionality, and enterprise management.
  1. ChatGPT

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Cancels License Request Justification Field

    Microsoft has cancelled a planned Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing feature that would have allowed employees to include a business justification when requesting a Copilot license. Roadmap item 547731 had been positioned as a straightforward way to give administrators more context, shorten...
  2. ChatGPT

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Uses Power BI Data in August 2026

    Microsoft is preparing to connect Microsoft 365 Copilot directly to Power BI’s enterprise analytics layer, allowing employees to ask ordinary business questions and receive answers grounded in reports and semantic models they are already authorized to use. Listed under Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID...
  3. ChatGPT

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Actions Launch in GCC High and DoD (June 2026)

    Microsoft has expanded Microsoft 365 Copilot’s practical reach in sensitive government environments by launching Actions for declarative agents in Government Community Cloud High and the Department of Defense cloud. The change, listed under Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 564606 and marked generally...
  4. ChatGPT

    Outlook Meeting Insights Retires by Mid-September, Copilot License Required

    Microsoft Outlook’s Meeting Insights feature will begin disappearing in mid-August and be fully retired by mid-September, removing the automatically surfaced emails and files that many Microsoft 365 users see in meeting details. Microsoft’s stated replacement is a Copilot-powered...
  5. ChatGPT

    Outlook Context IQ Retires: Replace “/” Discovery Workflows

    Outlook Context IQ’s retirement in new Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web should be treated as a workflow migration, not a keyboard-shortcut cleanup. Keep ordinary file sharing on Outlook’s native paths—paste, drag and drop, or Insert > Attach file—but separately identify teams that used...
  6. ChatGPT

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Agents: Create Safer Finance Variance Drafts

    The Jamaica Observer has published a practical guide to building a Microsoft 365 Copilot agent that drafts recurring finance variance commentary from monthly budget-versus-actual workbooks. The core idea is sound: replace a repeatedly pasted prompt with a reusable agent that carries standing...
  7. ChatGPT

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Data Gains Infinnium eDiscovery Connector

    Infinnium has added enterprise data-governance connectors for OpenAI ChatGPT, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, aiming to bring AI conversations into the same eDiscovery, retention and investigation workflows used for email, files and collaboration data. The company...
  8. ChatGPT

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Launches Meeting Search by Topic and Keywords

    Microsoft has marked a new Microsoft 365 Copilot meeting-search capability as launched, allowing users to locate relevant meetings by topic or keyword rather than relying solely on calendar metadata. According to Microsoft’s updated Microsoft 365 Roadmap entry for feature ID 559110, Copilot can...
  9. ChatGPT

    CVE-2026-58617: Update Microsoft 365 Copilot iOS to 2.111.4

    Microsoft has published CVE-2026-58617, a high-severity elevation-of-privilege flaw in the Microsoft 365 Copilot app for iOS, and organizations should ensure affected iPhones and iPads are running version 2.111.4 or later. The vulnerability, published July 14, affects versions beginning with 1.0...
  10. ChatGPT

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Expands to 140,000 L&T Employees

    Additional coverage of this story: Microsoft 365 Copilot Expands to 140,000 L&T Employees The Wire’s carried release frames the rollout as a governance and adoption challenge, adding that RAIma had handled nearly 500,000 interactions with a 75% feedback rate and noting undisclosed licensing...
  11. ChatGPT

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Expands to 35,000 Abu Dhabi Civil Servants

    Abu Dhabi Government has deployed Microsoft 365 Copilot to 26,000 additional civil servants, taking its public-sector installation to 35,000 licensed employees across 27 government entities. The rollout puts generative AI inside everyday applications such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and...
  12. ChatGPT

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Expands to 140,000 L&T Group Employees

    LTM is extending Microsoft 365 Copilot to approximately 140,000 employees across Larsen & Toubro Group, turning an internal AI program into one of India’s largest corporate workplace deployments. The rollout moves beyond email summaries and document drafting, embedding Copilot-powered agents...
  13. ChatGPT

    Canva Lets Staff Choose AI Tools Instead of Mandating Copilot

    Canva is telling staff not to wait for a corporate decree on which AI assistant to use. Co-founder and chief product officer Cameron Adams said employees can choose the tools that fit their work rather than being required to use a single product such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, according to...
  14. ChatGPT

    LSEG Workspace AI Search Launches in Teams, Copilot Support Planned

    LSEG has introduced Workspace AI Search, a conversational AI agent for financial research that is available in LSEG Workspace and the company’s Workspace app for Microsoft Teams. Microsoft 365 Copilot support is planned next, according to LSEG’s July 2026 product announcement. The service lets...
  15. ChatGPT

    GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Claims Cycle Double Cover Proof, Awaits Review

    OpenAI says its GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra mode generated a proof for the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture, a long-standing graph-theory problem, in under an hour. The claim is notable, but it remains a claim until mathematicians complete independent peer review of the published proof. The model launched...
  16. ChatGPT

    Microsoft 365 Copilot Adds Nested ACLs for Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow

    Microsoft has marked Microsoft 365 Roadmap item 503587 as launched, adding hierarchical access-control-list support to Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors for Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow. The capability reached general availability in April 2026 for Worldwide standard multi-tenant tenants...
  17. ChatGPT

    GPT-5.6 in Microsoft 365 Copilot Auto-Enables July 24, 2026

    Microsoft is making GPT-5.6 the preferred model across Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing OpenAI’s latest flagship family into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot Chat, and Copilot Cowork. Announced on July 9, the change promises stronger document drafting, data analysis, presentation creation, and...
  18. ChatGPT

    GPT-5.6 Becomes Preferred Model for Microsoft 365 Copilot

    Microsoft shares closed Friday, July 10, at €339.75, up 1.09%, after OpenAI named GPT-5.6 the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot, a reassurance rally that collided with €196.6 billion in future AI-data-center lease commitments and fresh questions about when the spending will pay. The...
  19. ChatGPT

    Microsoft Copilot for Outlook: Exchange Online Required for Mailbox AI

    AutoGPT.net has published an updated “Best AI Email Assistant” roundup dated July 13, 2026, but the list needs a careful read before Windows users or Microsoft 365 admins treat it as buying guidance. Despite the headline promising nine picks, the article names only eight: Superhuman, Shortwave...
  20. ChatGPT

    GPT-5.6 in Microsoft 365 Copilot: Admins Must Decide by July 24

    Microsoft has begun rolling out OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 as the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing the newly released model to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot Chat, and Copilot Cowork. The change was announced on July 9, 2026, alongside OpenAI’s broader GPT-5.6 launch, but it does not...