Copilot Studio Agents Become More Integrated, Proactive Teammates
Agents accounts assign human-like credentials to AI, while business process memory carries business context forward without restating requirements.>
Microsoft Maia 300: Could Its New AI Chip Challenge NVIDIA?
Microsoft's Maia 300 announcement reveals ambitious multi-gigawatt Azure deployment plans for 2027, highlighting the company's determination to build a more…>
Avanade AI Chief: Why Transformation Requires Process Redesign, Addressing Technical Debt
AI inference and reasoning capabilities disrupt traditional, linear flowcharts and employees must shift their approach to orchestrating the work of…>
Microsoft Raises the Stakes in AI Model Development
Microsoft claims its MAI-Base-2 AI model outperforms the base model behind OpenAI's GPT-5.6 on selected tests while using 75% less…>
CIO Insight: Why AI Requires Access To Business Knowledge and Processes
Because AI models don't know a company's processes by default, acquiring knowledge of those inner workings is critical to driving…>
Kenny Mullican, CIO of Paragon Films, explains how AI is helping IT move beyond cost containment to partner with sales and marketing on new opportunities for revenue growth.
After proving its custom silicon strategy with Maia 200, Microsoft is preparing a much larger Maia 300 push designed to support both AI training and inference.
Kenny Mullican, CIO of Paragon Films, explains how predictive AI is helping the manufacturer anticipate equipment failures and quality issues before they disrupt production.
AI in Retail: Albertsons Bags Larger Grocery Orders; WalMart Workers Find Context Is Critical
Consolidated AI chatbots raise order values up to 26% at Albertsons, while WalMart’s in-store AI use requires employees to further train AI models with business context.
Gmail, Calendar, and Drive users can now access data and perform tasks directly from their Claude conversations, accelerating integration of AI tools and productivity tools.
Microsoft’s Copilot Acceleration Team provides a rich, open-source repository of pre-written skills for specific tasks. Users need to exercise caution because they’re not supported product features.
Event Moment: Kenny Mullican on How AI Is Compressing the IT Backlog at Paragon Films
AI is helping Paragon Films tackle projects that once seemed out of reach, enabling its lean IT team to move from months-long timelines to rapid experimentation and iteration.
Skill Recorder creates a foundation for AI to understand workflows, recommend improvements, and ultimately automate workflows, for on-demand or scheduled use cases.
How Microsoft Governance Tools Dispel the ‘Black Box’ Myth When It Comes to AI Actions
Identity management, data loss prevention tools work together to ensure every AI agent action can be traced to the entity that triggered it for accountability.
Microsoft Research and Paige’s PRISM 2 combines nearly 2.5 million pathology images with clinical language, creating a versatile AI model for cancer detection, biomarker prediction, and research.
Agentic reasoning loops promise better AI answers, but could dramatically increase token consumption and costs as enterprise adoption grows.
Learn how Vixxo is embedding AI agents across facilities management to automate operations, empower employees, and move toward a human-orchestrated business model.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has confirmed plans for a Copilot super app that will unite chat, coding, Cowork and autonomous AI agents, creating a single flagship experience spanning both Microsoft’s consumer and commercial AI offerings.
See how Vixxo views AI agents as the next enterprise operating model, enabling every business function to automate work and shift employees into orchestration roles.
AI vendors are moving toward consumption-based billing as rising token costs make traditional flat-fee and user-based licensing increasingly difficult to sustain.
Let agents discover and reason through the work, move repeatable parts into deterministic automation, and then use the agent as a supervisor and exception handler.
AI vendors are increasingly turning to forward deployment engineers as enterprises struggle to move AI pilots into production and consumption-based models grow.
Project Perception represents Microsoft’s push beyond reactive cybersecurity, coordinating red, blue, and green AI agents in a closed-loop system designed to continuously identify vulnerabilities, assess risks, implement fixes, and strengthen enterprise defenses.
Explore how Mater Hospital is using AI agents to interpret patient communications, identify care needs, and help teams deliver a more responsive patient experience.
AI Success Requires Integration With Business Strategy, Apps, and Cloud Infrastructure
Even with strong partner support, AI operating in silos will yield disconnected workstreams due to the lack of a single point of governance and accountability.
Learn how Mater Hospital is building on years of automation to use AI and intelligent workflows that improve every stage of the patient journey, from scheduling through discharge.
July updates extend the company’s commitment to make a range of AI models and choices available to users. Models from OpenAI and Anthropic have been added.
Event Moment: How Copper State Bolt & Nut and Pro Refrigeration Use AI to Solve Customer Problems Faster
AI is helping Pro Refrigeration and Copper State Bolt & Nut solve complex customer challenges faster, extend team capabilities, and drive business growth through innovation.
AI agents are beginning to outpace Copilot licenses, signaling that organizations are creating increasingly valuable custom automation across the Microsoft ecosystem.
Microsoft and more than 20 tech companies urge U.S. lawmakers to protect open-weight AI models, arguing openness drives innovation and competition.
Developers now have three harnesses to choose from, selecting the best option and model for the required tasks while also factoring in cost considerations.
Satya Nadella’s Reverse Information Paradox Could Change How Enterprises Think About AI
Nadella believes enterprises should have the freedom to choose AI providers, privately train models, manage costs, and retain complete control over their accumulated organizational intelligence.
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Avanade AI Chief: Why Transformation Requires Process Redesign, Addressing Technical Debt
AI inference and reasoning capabilities disrupt traditional, linear flowcharts and employees must shift their approach to orchestrating the work of AI agents, Ben Beath says.








