Microsoft and OpenAI announced that GPT-6 Astra is now available in Copilot Cowork, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and GitHub Copilot, enabling users to delegate larger tasks with a 1.9x faster ta…
Microsoft's Power Platform and M365 now offer five different agent builders, creating duplication and overlap for developers. An engineer's analysis reveals that the original .agent files have been de…
Organizations should not build their operations around a single AI model provider, warns a developer building the open-source aweb platform, as providers like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic increasi…
Baidu Cloud has split its AI agent and model-as-a-service businesses into separate operating units, effective August 2026, with the platform product division renamed the intelligent-agent division and…
Isar Aerospace, a launch company based in Parsdorf, Bavaria, Germany, is hiring a working student to help operate and improve its internal AI platform, including a self-managed inference endpoint for …
A single governed context layer, such as Atlan's Nexset, can resolve discrepancies in agent answers by providing one shared definition, as illustrated by three different AI coding assistants returning…
Microsoft Foundry's agent identity model, built on Microsoft Entra, provides three permission planes—user-present, autonomous, and approval-gated—to address over-privileged agents, but a publish-time …
Adobe launched AI Collaborators in Workfront, allowing users to assign tasks to AI agents as permissioned team members. The feature includes three generally available agent types: content reviewer, pr…
Microsoft announced a connected foundation for agentic AI in healthcare, integrating Microsoft Fabric, Dragon Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Azure to help health systems deploy AI…
A developer created the axtr-to-markdown skill, which converts Microsoft Dynamics 365 Task Recorder recordings into structured Markdown documents for Level 4 process training. The tool extracts proces…
Microsoft Azure lead engineer Kishorekumar Pattabiraman published an architecture guide on choosing between AI skills and sub-agents, emphasizing reusability, simplicity, and maintainability. He outli…
Microsoft has introduced SharePoint Skills, a feature that lets users create reusable, multi-step AI workflows within SharePoint using natural language. The tool, managed via the site's Agent Assets l…
Microsoft's Copilot Studio now supports Skills, modular Markdown-based prompts with YAML metadata that can include Python scripts for deterministic outcomes. A developer highlights how Skills reduce t…
Microsoft has made a Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention control available in preview that can prevent Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat from using email received from external domains, with g…
Microsoft integrated Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 into Microsoft 365 Copilot on July 25, making it available in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot Chat, Cowork, and Studio alongside OpenAI's GPT-5.6. The i…
Microsoft and Mistral AI announced a multi-billion-dollar agreement for Microsoft to rent AI computing capacity from Mistral's European data centers in France and Sweden, giving Azure customers a Euro…
Microsoft and Mistral are expanding their partnership to bring Mistral's frontier AI models across Azure, Microsoft Foundry, Copilot Studio, and Azure Local, aiming to offer customers more choice and …
Microsoft will invest billions in new AI computing capacity inside Mistral to serve sovereign AI customers in Europe and add Mistral's OCR 4.0 and Medium 3.5 models to its platforms, the companies ann…
Microsoft is committing billions more to Mistral's European GPU buildout under an expanded partnership that gives the French AI lab access to thousands of Nvidia's newest Vera Rubin GPUs for training …
Microsoft and Mistral expanded their partnership on July 21 with a multibillion-dollar Microsoft commitment to use part of Mistral's growing European GPU infrastructure, which will include thousands o…