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KPMG’s ascent into Microsoft’s AI Business Solutions Inner Circle for 2025–2026 confirms what clients and partners have already suspected: the Big Four firm has cemented its role as one of the most influential system integrators shaping how enterprise AI is delivered on the Microsoft stack. This...

West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service (WYFRS) has quietly pushed one of the clearest practical tests of enterprise AI into the public sector: by embedding Microsoft Copilot across day‑to‑day workflows the service says it has accelerated routine admin, improved accessibility for neurodiverse...

Every leader who’s rushed to “buy AI” and roll it out by fiat has learned the same lesson: technology without people is a cost, not an advantage. Background: why the conversation matters now Generative AI is no longer an experimental sidebar for labs and startups — it’s being embedded in...

Microsoft’s quiet pivot to make artificial intelligence a native, operational layer inside Dynamics 365 marks a decisive shift: AI is no longer an optional add-on but a set of embedded capabilities designed to activate business outcomes, and the success of that activation now hinges as much on...

Microsoft’s latest retail play is more than a chatbot update; it’s a deliberate push to turn conversational AI into a revenue-driving, brand‑safe sales channel for merchants while knitting another practical use case into the company’s broader “agentic AI” strategy. The Personal Shopping Agent —...

Crimson’s briefing for Housing Digital makes a persuasive case that social housing providers who have already adopted Microsoft Power Platform can—and should—move well beyond simple forms and automations to deliver measurable, tenant-centred improvements across repairs, tenancy management...

Microsoft has pushed a significant enforcement point into the live execution path of enterprise AI agents: Copilot Studio now offers near‑real‑time runtime security controls that can route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors (Microsoft Defender, third‑party XDRs, or customer-hosted...

Microsoft has quietly shifted a crucial enforcement point for enterprise AI: Copilot Studio now offers near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors and receive an approve-or-block verdict while the agent executes...

Microsoft has added a near‑real‑time enforcement layer to Copilot Studio that lets organizations route an AI agent’s planned actions through external monitors — including Microsoft Defender, third‑party XDR vendors, or custom in‑tenant policy engines — and receive an approve-or-block verdict...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a new enforcement point into the live execution path for enterprise AI agents: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors and receive an approve-or-block decision...

Microsoft has quietly moved a critical enforcement point for enterprise AI agents from after-the-fact logging into the live execution path: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime monitoring that lets organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors — Microsoft...

Microsoft has quietly pushed a significant control point into the live execution path of enterprise AI agents: Copilot Studio can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors (Microsoft Defender, third‑party XDR vendors, or customer endpoints) and receive an approve/block verdict in...

Microsoft has added a near‑real‑time enforcement layer to Copilot Studio that lets security teams intercept, evaluate and — when necessary — block the actions autonomous agents plan to take as they run, bringing step‑level policy decisioning into the live execution loop for Power Platform...

Microsoft has moved a critical enforcement point for autonomous workflows from design-time checks and post‑hoc logging into the live execution path: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has added a near‑real‑time security control that routes an agent’s planned actions through external monitors—allowing organizations to approve or block tool calls and actions while an AI agent runs—and the capability is now available in public preview for Power...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has added a near‑real‑time monitoring and control layer for AI agents, letting enterprises intercept, evaluate and — when necessary — block agent actions as they execute, and giving security teams a new way to enforce policies at runtime without sacrificing agent...

Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has moved from built‑in guardrails to active, near‑real‑time intervention: organizations can now route an agent’s planned actions to external monitors that approve or block those actions while the agent is executing, enabling step‑level enforcement that ties existing...

Microsoft has quietly but meaningfully shifted the balance of power between autonomous AI agents and enterprise defenders: Copilot Studio now supports near‑real‑time runtime security controls that let organizations route an agent’s planned actions through external monitors (Microsoft Defender...

Balfour Beatty is taking its AI ambitions stateside with an employee hackathon aimed at translating prototypes into construction-ready AI tools — but the most consequential news in this story is the scale of the firm's Microsoft partnership and its strategic investment in Microsoft 365 Copilot...

Microsoft Digital’s Employee Productivity Engineering (EPE) team faced a deceptively simple-sounding question with outsized implications: should we build on Microsoft Dataverse — the low-code data platform native to the Power Platform — or rely on Microsoft SQL Server and its mature relational...