web grounding

Microsoft has pulled Domain Exclusion for Microsoft 365 Copilot shortly after its rollout began, removing a tenant-level control that allowed administrators to keep named websites out of Copilot’s web-grounded answers. For organizations that had started building exclusion lists, the immediate...

Microsoft has launched a long-awaited governance control for Microsoft 365 Copilot that lets administrators exclude a limited set of websites from web grounding, giving organizations a more precise alternative to allowing or disabling web search wholesale. Listed under Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID...

Microsoft announced Web IQ on June 2, 2026, at Build as a Bing-powered grounding system and API layer that gives AI agents fresh web evidence—pages, news, images, and videos—through machine-oriented retrieval rather than human search results. The company is not merely adding another search...

Microsoft used the opening day of Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2 to put Azure HorizonDB into public preview and to expose Web IQ, the web-grounding layer it says already supports Copilot and ChatGPT. The announcement is not just another database launch dressed in AI language. It is...

Microsoft has pushed Agent Mode for Excel out of the browser and into the desktop, adding integrated web search and multi-model choices that promise to change how analysts, accountants, and power users build and validate workbooks—but the move also raises immediate questions about accuracy...

Google's unveiling of Bard represented a direct, high-stakes response to the sudden mainstream success of ChatGPT and the scramble among tech giants to own the next generation of search and conversational AI experiences. Announced by the company's CEO as an "important next step on our AI...

The latest hands‑on head‑to‑head testing that compares Google’s Gemini 3 and Microsoft’s Copilot finds a clear practical winner for everyday, web‑grounded tasks — and it isn’t even close in several categories. The hands‑on review that sparked the debate ran seven real‑world desktop prompts...

Microsoft’s move to embed a free, in‑app Copilot Chat across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote marks a turning point: conversational AI is no longer an optional plugin for a few power users, it’s being positioned as a default productivity layer for Microsoft 365 business customers...

Microsoft is weaving its AI assistant deeper into the Office experience by rolling Copilot Chat and agent capabilities directly into core Microsoft 365 apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote — bringing a unified, in-context chat pane and a raft of new tools aimed at turning an AI...

Microsoft has quietly moved a conversation-style Copilot into the places people actually work: a persistent, context-aware Copilot Chat sidebar is now rolling out inside the desktop versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote for Microsoft 365 customers — a free, in-app assistant...

NewsGuard’s latest audit has landed as a clear, uncomfortable signal: the most popular consumer chatbots are now far more likely to repeat provably false claims about breaking news and controversial topics than they were a year ago, and the shift in behavior appears rooted in product trade‑offs...

AI chatbots are answering more questions than ever — and, according to a de‑anonymized NewsGuard audit released in September 2025, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often: roughly one in three news‑related replies contained a verifiable false claim during the August 2025 test cycle...

AI chatbots are now answering more questions — and, according to a fresh NewsGuard audit, they are also repeating falsehoods far more often, producing inaccurate or misleading content in roughly one out of every three news‑related responses during an August 2025 audit cycle. Background The...

As the digital age redefines enterprise research, organizations are racing to harness generative AI and agentic automation to transform how they gather, analyze, and govern information. Microsoft’s latest offering, Deep Research within Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, represents a pivotal leap in...