Microsoft is expanding its AI strategy by embedding Copilot directly into Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Premium plans, simplifying licensing and accelerating AI adoption among small and medium-sized businesses beginning July 1.

Christopher Lochhead explains why AI is making knowledge and execution less valuable while elevating human judgment, taste, creativity, and category creation.

Agent Optimizer functions ensure Foundry Hosted Agents adhere to user-defined criteria for the best instructions, skills, models, and tool descriptions.

The ed-tech company Chegg is a cautionary tale of how traditional business strengths can be rapidly undercut as AI technology advances.

Sachin Gandhi explains how MCP gives AI agents the tools needed to move from conversation to real enterprise execution.

An exploration of why future agility, rather than future-proofing, is becoming the defining characteristic of successful digital businesses.

Christopher Lochhead explains how AI is making knowledge and execution increasingly free, shifting competitive advantage to agent-driven systems.

Puri discusses how AI-powered analysis of vast biological databases helps researchers identify patterns, design new therapeutic molecules, and significantly improve experimental success rates in modern pharmaceutical research.

NVIDIA-powered ‘Dev Box’ delivers horsepower to execute massive AI models from local systems on an ‘unmetered’ basis, while reference designs aim to make AI computing ubiquitous.

Autopilots increase the level of AI autonomy and automation. Build event also places major focus on agentic AI development — and controls — at the desktop.

Agent 365 introduces a unified control plane for managing enterprise AI agents, giving IT leaders centralized visibility, governance, security guardrails, and observability across the agentic workplace.

Copilot Studio’s new visibility and governance capabilities help organizations scale AI automation while preserving security and operational oversight.

Microsoft updates Finance Agent to provide a command center-type interface, as well as support for natural language prompts to gain and act on financial insights.

Giuseppe Ianni and Nandita Puri discuss how AI is helping connect fragmented biomedical research, reducing years of literature review into months of analysis and creating new opportunities for rare disease treatments.

Dona Sarkar explains why coding agents succeed first in AI adoption thanks to structured data, clear validation, and measurable outcomes.

Thales explains how organizations can use AI-driven competitive intelligence to identify market weaknesses, exploit operational gaps, and respond faster than competitors.

Support for Compliance API gives Purview visibility into conversations and events, bringing both data types in Claude under broader enterprise controls.

Microsoft and EY’s expanded partnership combines AI-native engineering with business consulting to help organizations scale transformative AI initiatives.

Features for controlling the actions of agents — ensuring they don’t misbehave — bring the enterprise-level controls required by IT/security pros and business leaders alike.

James Oleinik explains how Work IQ powers Copilot with real-time enterprise context, turning AI into an intelligent execution layer for work.

From checking credit references to operating as a personal chief of staff, AI agents can operate within a wide range of autonomous functionality.

James Oleinik explains how Agent 365 provides the visibility, governance, and security foundation needed to manage AI agents across the enterprise.

Because buyers rely extensively on AI tools, websites need to be optimized with content and schema that reflect changing customer journeys.

Sachin Gandhi explains how AI agents are transforming supply chains by autonomously planning and executing logistics operations.

Microsoft says the future of AI success depends less on individual readiness and more on organizational culture, management support, and redesigned workflows.

The bifurcation between AI-native and AI-bolted-on organizations is becoming more apparent as the AI-centric approach’s benefits come into sharper focus.

Christopher Lochhead explains how AI is accelerating category-level shifts that create entirely new kinds of jobs while rapidly reshaping the future of work.