‘Agent Nodes’ make it easier for the reasoning and orchestration intelligence of agents to plug into established workflows for customer service, procurement, and more.
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Judgment, discernment, and strategic thinking are attributes that leaders must bring to bear so employees learn to use AI effectively and deliver on its potential to transform business.
Plugin for popular coding platforms injects the ‘skills’ needed to deliver agentic automation without deep knowledge of an organization’s Dataverse environment.
Round of enhancements also includes simplified prompting during agent-building processes, new content moderation controls to govern sensitive material.
Microsoft’s 2026 Release Wave 1 introduces deeper Copilot integration, expanded agentic AI experiences, and new governance and automation capabilities across Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and Microsoft 365 Copilot, accelerating the shift toward enterprise-wide agentic operations.
New metrics provide visibility into usage patterns, while expanded controls improve governance over content sources in Purview platform.
New features enhance research quality by using multiple models to produce outputs while comparing and refining results, as well as optimizing presentation of research results.
Amid the uncertainty of how AI will impact their jobs, employees can start thinking more about where it’s going to allow them to add value and be different in their work life.
The company and ISV partners deliver agents that inject new functions into Copilot, Defender, and other Microsoft platforms, driving significant growth in the security ecosystem.
The future of business consulting lies in the ability to make sense of AI data and translate it into practical business strategies.
A high-energy final day at the AI Agent & Copilot Summit explores reskilling, prompt engineering frameworks, and the shift from AI experimentation to real-world execution.
More than 650,000 ERP actions can be executed automatically by agents as a result of Microsoft’s expanding portfolio of MCP servers for Dynamics 365.
Day two of the AI Agent & Copilot Summit highlights the shift to reasoning-driven copilots, practical agent strategies, and real-world AI adoption.
Day 2 of the AI Agent & Copilot Summit included a variety of session formats designed to demonstrate real-world applications of agentic AI.
Dona Sarkar calls out the “tech bro”-driven AI hype machine and shares a blueprint to push AI into mainstream use cases that will deliver on the tech’s considerable promise.
WorkIQ-powered Copilot Cowork orchestrates complex tasks to the point that agents could take over one-fifth of any team’s work in the near term, while hastening the end of app-driven workflows.
At AI Agent & Copilot Summit 2026 in Torrey Pines, Christopher Lochhead argues that as AI makes knowledge and execution free, the future belongs to creators who differentiate and build entirely new categories of work.
Advances from summarization to execution with AI, third-party agent marketplaces, and no-code solutions for clinical workflows top the innovations at last week’s big healthcare conference.
Massive Google Cloud customer use cases and the emergence of patient agency supported by AI are early highlights of HIMSS 2026, according to healthcare tech exec Paul Swider.
The Microsoft ecosystem is designed to scale in layers, so users should start with productivity, move into automation, and then expand into enterprise agents and intelligence. Understanding this progression will yield better, faster outcomes.