Microsoft introduced four context engines—Foundry IQ, Fabric IQ, Work IQ, and Web IQ—that ground enterprise AI agents in unstructured documents, structured business data, Microsoft 365 work signals, a…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella built a ROIC Intelligence App using Copilot code and autopilot in Microsoft's new superapp, turning a Morgan Stanley research PDF into a governed enterprise application. Th…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Wednesday that average weekly engagement with Copilot AI is now on par with Outlook and Teams, with over 30 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats and nearly 40 mill…
Microsoft reported that customers across industries moved from AI experimentation to deploying AI for real-world business outcomes in FY26, with the emergence of Frontier Firms embedding AI at the cor…
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 570 security vulnerabilities, including two zero-days, driven by AI-powered vulnerability discovery using its Codename MDASH multi-model agentic scanning harn…
Manulife and Microsoft renewed and expanded their partnership under a five-year agreement announced July 22, with Manulife adopting Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite, deploying Agent 365 as an enterpris…
Microsoft announced the general availability of Hosted Agents in Foundry, enabling long-running, agent-native compute across any framework, language, or model. The platform integrates with GitHub Copi…
Microsoft Entra Agent ID governance requires continuous monitoring and operational review beyond initial configuration. The company outlines key monitoring areas including risky agents, sign-in logs, …
Microsoft Entra Agent ID governance includes lifecycle workflows to maintain sponsor continuity for AI agents. When a sponsor leaves or changes roles, these workflows notify managers or co-sponsors an…
Microsoft Entra Agent ID governance series introduces access packages to grant approved, time-bound access to AI agents. Access packages ensure agents receive intentional, auditable permissions with a…
Microsoft Entra ID introduces Conditional Access policies for AI agent identities, enabling organizations to enforce governance based on agent classification and custom security attributes. The approa…
Microsoft Entra ID custom security attributes can serve as a governance metadata layer for AI agents, enabling attribute-driven policies instead of manual per-agent management. By defining attributes …
Microsoft Entra Agent ID governance requires mapping owners and sponsors for AI agents to ensure accountability. Owners handle technical administration, while sponsors confirm business purpose and lif…
Microsoft Entra Agent ID and Agent 365 provide a structured governance model for AI agents in enterprise environments. The model emphasizes visibility and accountability before enforcement, with a pha…
Microsoft introduced Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), a cross-platform, policy-driven execution layer for AI agents on Windows and WSL, now in early preview. The SDK abstracts isolation primitive…
Microsoft executives emphasize that AI success requires both intelligence and trust, advising customers to build their own IQ on a diverse, open platform rather than depending on a single model. The c…
Microsoft at Build 2026 unveiled a new GitHub Copilot desktop app enabling developers to direct multiple AI agents in parallel from a single interface. The company also launched seven new MAI models, …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the company is treating AI agents like human employees by giving them identities, permissions, and audit capabilities to manage their work. Nadella told Reid Hoffman o…
Microsoft at Build 2026 announced the general availability of MDASH, its multi-model agentic security system, now integrated into a full enterprise security control plane connecting Defender, GitHub C…