Customers increasingly wonder whether communications, statistics, and research were reviewed by people, driving the need for published AI policies to build trust.
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‘Project HydraFusion’ evaluates each request and chooses the least complex workflow required, using additional model calls only when it anticipates a better result.
New features enhance positioning of Teams as a platform to support humans, agents working together to accelerate GitHub-powered dev projects.
Microsoft’s latest Copilot Studio release — including the GitHub Copilot Harness — is more of an upgrade to the engine room of enterprise agents than a simple feature update.
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.
Skill Recorder creates a foundation for AI to understand workflows, recommend improvements, and ultimately automate workflows, for on-demand or scheduled use cases.
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.
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.
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.
Developers now have three harnesses to choose from, selecting the best option and model for the required tasks while also factoring in cost considerations.
Certification paths combined with AI platform-wide bet on governance steer customers to adopt existing frameworks and avoid creating technical debt.
Data breaches hit hardest in healthcare and financial services, while the firms that tap AI most aggressively are focusing on hunting threats and automating attack responses.
Project Perception scales vulnerability discovery for today’s AI-powered threats. Initially available in Defender, Perception will extend across the company’s security lineup.
Customers will be able to capitalize on data from ZoomInfo, Dun & Bradstreet, Gong, and others in the flow of their Dynamics 365 sales processes.
Upgrades include automatically created documents and files, as well as interactive reports. Approvals and other repeatable work can be handled through automation.
Users can create event-driven tasks spanning Teams chats, Outlook email, and meetings, bringing Cowork’s promised automation across complex workflows closer to reality.
Fabric Apps automatically build a real database, working API, and authentication through existing Microsoft accounts. Plus, users can tap into their choice of AI coding tools.
New security features include agent inventory, threat detection for core AI tools, and automated investigations that isolate legitimate threats at scale.
Purview, Defender, and Graph API are all being enhanced to bring agents running on end-user devices under unified governance ‘control plane.’
Ideas on how to differentiate partners’ services: they can tap AI to help manufacturers reduce quoting delays or improve project reporting for professional services clients.