The U.S. trails in global GenAI usage despite its AI development strength, Microsoft reports.

BNY, Boston Scientific detail AI initiatives, including the value of AI agents as digital employees and approaches to sensitive data protection. They spoke at the Microsoft AI Tour in New York.

This masterclass will explore how Agents and Copilot in D365 F&SCM help organizations move from reactive ERP processes to proactive, governed decision-making.

Expanded partnership taps into the most advanced OpenAI models and offers them directly to ServiceNow customers, who will be able to keep pace with the latest innovations.

Enterprise Microsoft licensing practices need to evolve into tiers that reflect the type of work being done, which will result in greater clarity, predictability, and accountability.

Partnership taps into AI algorithms to support early lung cancer detection and improve outcomes, with particular focus on the medically underserved.

New for 2026, the Industry Accelerator sessions at AI Agent & Copilot Summit will demonstrate real-world business transformations from leaders operationalizing AI.

A grounded look at how data, architecture, and governance turn AI from a demo into a dependable business capability.

Claude’s integration into Microsoft Foundry allows healthcare organizations to utilize domain-specific tools to streamline operations and improve patient outcomes.

For CIOs, the shift is from automating steps to automating judgment, with flows controlling each action and agents defining the goal and choosing the path.

Siefert and Bacon discuss how the AI Agent & Copilot Summit has evolved from introducing AI concepts to focusing on real-world, production-ready use cases that deliver measurable business value across industries.

Microsoft’s new Agent Launchers push agentic AI directly into Windows, making AI agents easier to build, discover, and use across the OS through a single standardized entry point.

Copilot isn’t inferior to stand-alone chatbots, it’s context bound and that’s the trade-off (as well as the benefit) of embedding it into enterprise apps, where it optimizes for impact.

Universal Commerce Protocol, or UCP, has the backing of major retailers including Walmart, and financial services giants including American Express and Visa. It aims to standardize transactions on an end-to-end basis.

Copilot Studio has evolved into a powerful platform for building enterprise AI agents. These 8 Copilot Studio-focused masterclasses are designed to help organizations operationalize agentic AI across the enterprise.

From checkout functionality integrated into Copilot to personalized shopping to AI automation in store operations, Microsoft delivers a range of AI tools that modernize online retail.

AI-powered checkout and new agents push the retail industry closer to a ‘zero-wait’ state, where approvals and outcomes don’t sit in queue until humans act.

In physical AI use cases, software and robots collaborate and AI systems can execute real-world tasks, not just suggest them, going well beyond the capabilities of GenAI.

Taylor Dorward joins the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast to discuss accessibility in the workplace, and how this brings new value to organizations.

The Microsoft CEO urges moving beyond the hype to systemic AI architectures that can scale human ambitions.

Agent 365 answers the big questions CIOs actually care about: who owns our agents? What systems and data can they access? Governance replaces shadow AI.

AI agents can eliminate mundane, repetitive tasks — like documentation and customer data lookup — freeing professionals to focus on higher-value, growth-oriented work.

With multi-agent systems being rolled out aggressively, customers need to emphasize operational controls, performance analysis, and governance.

GPT-5.2 is now live in Microsoft Foundry, empowering developers with smarter, more reliable AI agents and scalable outputs.

Defender enhancements include services, dedicated engineering resources for proactive and reactive threat defenses, as well as strengthening overall security posture for the AI era.

Consulting firm also recommends enterprises move away from specialization to generalists who are comfortable with AI and adept at managing fleets of agents.

Columbus VP, Michael Simms, joins the AI Agent & Copilot Podcast to share what went into selecting the sessions for the 2026 event, and what’s required to successfully adopt AI.