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AI Agents Are Coming to Windows—Here’s How Microsoft Is Making It Happen
Human-agent collaboration is moving beyond the cloud. It’s coming to the edge. At its 2025 Build conference, Microsoft unveiled the Windows AI Foundry, a development platform that will bring model building, fine-tuning, and local deployment capabilities to Windows 11. The company also announced native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a framework that allows […]
Microsoft Unveils a No-Code Digital Twin Tool in Fabric
Microsoft wants to make building digital twins as easy as dragging and dropping, and it has a new tool to do it. At its 2025 Build conference, the company previewed its digital twin builder that will be available in Fabric, its data and analytics platform. A digital twin is perhaps a virtual replica of a […]
Microsoft’s NLWeb Project Turns Websites into Conversational Interfaces for AI Agents
Microsoft is reimagining how people interact with autonomous agents through a new open project called NLWeb. Designed to bring natural language interfaces to websites, it transforms ordinary web pages into conversational agents, enabling users to interact directly with the site’s content. The company is betting on this to be as impactful on the agentic web […]
Microsoft Adds Model Tuning to M365 Copilot to Build Domain-Specific AI
Microsoft is adding a new feature to its Microsoft 365 (M365) Copilot assistant that transforms it into a domain expert. Announced at Microsoft Build 2025, the feature is called Copilot Tuning and is a low-code service allowing developers to train models on an organization’s own data without needing the assistance of data scientists. Imagine a […]
Microsoft Opens Teams to Smarter AI Agents With A2A Protocol and New Developer Tools
Microsoft is opening the door to more intelligent, autonomous AI agents in Teams. At its 2025 Build conference, the company announced a new developer toolkit that will make it easier to build and deploy agents directly within meetings on the platform, for both private and group use. The update includes support for Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) […]
The New GitHub Copilot Agent Doesn’t Just Help You Code—it Codes for You
GitHub’s coding assistant has leveled up, shifting from an in-editor assistant to an autonomous agent capable of implementing tasks or issues. This is an escalation in the vibe coming space and takes place four years after GitHub Copilot was first introduced. Internally dubbed Project Padawan, the new GitHub Copilot coding agent brings deeper integration of […]
Microsoft Brings Grok 3, Local AI, and Multi-Agent Tools to Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft’s platform for building and deploying AI apps and agents is getting an update. Announced at this year’s Build conference, Azure AI Foundry (née Azure AI Studio) has new tools to simplify agent development, automate model selection, enhance monitoring, and support on-device AI. It’s all aimed at helping companies scale their generative AI solutions with […]
Microsoft Introduces Entra Agent ID to Bring Zero Trust to AI Agents
Microsoft says we’re entering an era where humans work alongside AI agents. It’s the rise of what it calls Frontier Firms—businesses that summon bots on demand to support knowledge workers in what Microsoft’s Chief Marketing Officer for AI at Work, Jared Spataro, describes as the “elastic workforce.” However, keeping track of the agents may prove […]
Salesforce Acquires AI Automation Startup Convergence to Bolster Its Agentforce Platform
Salesforce has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Convergence.ai, a startup building AI automation software. The deal terms were not disclosed, but Salesforce stated that the Convergence “team and technology” would help enhance its Agentforce platform. “The next wave of customer interaction and employee productivity will be driven by highly […]
You.com Launches ARI Enterprise, an AI Research Agent for Financial Analysts and Consultants
In February, the enterprise AI platform You.com introduced its Advanced Research and Insights (ARI) agent, designed to perform deep research and act as a personal AI consultant. Now, just three months later, the company is rolling out ARI Enterprise, a new version designed specifically for consultants, financial analysts, and researchers. And according to You.com, it […]