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...
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...
Workday and Microsoft have announced a practical, identity-first integration that lets organizations register, verify, and govern AI agents alongside human employees by linking Microsoft’s agent runtime and identity tooling with Workday’s new Agent System of Record (ASOR), enabling agents built...
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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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Zoom’s AI push at Zoomtopia 2025 marks a pivot from helper tools to agentic assistants and lifelike synthetic presence — the company unveiled AI Companion 3.0, cross-platform note-taking and search, and photorealistic meeting avatars alongside a raft of video-performance upgrades intended to...
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Workday’s announcement at Workday Rising of a joint technical alignment with Microsoft marks a decisive step in making AI agents first-class, governable entities inside the enterprise — not just ephemeral bots stitched together by line-of-business teams. The new integration links Microsoft’s...
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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...
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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...
SymphonyAI’s industrial AI platform, IRIS Foundry, is now directly available inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot via the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—bringing real‑time operational visibility, contextualized plant data, and automated workflows into the exact collaboration surface...
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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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Microsoft’s renewed push to make Windows a deeply agentic, multimodal platform—paired with ambitious Copilot investments—has quietly rewritten the conditions that once made a Microsoft-branded phone an improbable gamble; taken together, those shifts make the idea of a “new Windows phone” not...
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The first public glimpse of Visual Studio 2026 arrived in the Insiders Channel this week, and what Microsoft is shipping in this early build is a clear signal: the IDE is entering a new phase where AI is embedded across the developer workflow while the platform pushes forward with performance...
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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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Azure’s argument is stark but simple: it’s no longer a question of whether teams can build AI agents—the real battle is how quickly and reliably they can move from prototype to enterprise-ready deployment.
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The pace of agent development has accelerated from lab experiments to...
Microsoft’s deputy CISO for Identity lays out a clear warning: autonomous agents are moving from experiments to production, and without new identity, access, data, and runtime controls they will create risks that are fundamentally different from those posed by traditional users and service...
GitHub Copilot for Azure has landed inside Visual Studio 2022 as a public preview, bringing a curated set of Azure management tools directly into Copilot Chat — Agent Mode and enabling developers to inspect resources, pull logs, run Azure CLI/azd commands, and even deploy applications from...
Microsoft has quietly extended Copilot’s reach deeper into the Azure developer workflow by launching a public preview of the GitHub Copilot for Azure extension for Visual Studio 2022, bringing a curated set of Azure tools—exposed via an Azure Model Context Protocol (MCP) server—directly into...