Ai Agents
The latest Ai Agents coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Microsoft Puts Jacob Andreou in Charge of Building a Unified Copilot Super App for 2026
Microsoft is making a decisive move to consolidate its artificial intelligence efforts, tapping former Snap executive Jacob Andreou to lead the charge in unifying its consumer and commercial Copilot...
Google Gemini 3.5 Flash Gains Computer Use Capabilities, Bringing AI Agents to Windows with Security Ready Checks
Google has quietly launched a feature that could reshape how AI interacts with the everyday software tools millions of businesses rely on: Gemini 3.5 Flash, the latest iteration of its multimodal AI...
Microsoft Scout Brings Always-On AI Autopilot to Windows and M365 at Build 2026
Microsoft has a new AI agent, and it doesn't wait for your prompts. On June 2, 2026, during the Build 2026 developer conference, the company pulled back the curtain on Microsoft Scout, an "always-on"...
Microsoft’s Copilot Agents Drive 7,500-Hour Productivity Surge at Energy Giant SOCAR Türkiye
SOCAR Türkiye’s digital transformation team has eliminated more than 7,500 hours of repetitive work annually by orchestrating Microsoft Copilot agents that autonomously route and resolve internal...
Tecan Integrates NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit Into Introspect Platform for Auditable Clinical AI
On June 24, 2026 — just one day after NVIDIA released its BioNeMo Agent Toolkit — laboratory automation specialist Tecan announced the immediate integration of the toolkit’s agentic AI...
Microsoft Teams Desktop and Mac Will Finally Get App Slash Commands, but You’ll Wait Until Late 2026
Microsoft is building a new way to command your apps inside Teams without lifting your hands from the keyboard — and it is going straight to the desktop and Mac clients where millions of knowledge...
Microsoft Cancels Copilot ‘Computer Use’ Feature—A Reality Check on Agentic AI
On June 25, 2026, Microsoft quietly pulled the plug on one of its most ambitious Copilot promises. Roadmap ID 511796, which detailed a “Computer Use in Researcher” capability for Microsoft 365...
Microsoft 365 E7 Arrives: Agent 365 Brings Enterprise AI Control Plane to Life
Microsoft has officially unveiled Microsoft 365 E7, a new premium enterprise bundle that will become generally available on May 1, 2026. This comprehensive suite packages the existing Microsoft 365...
Uganda's Tyms Debuts AI Agents for Microsoft Teams and Slack Finance Workflows
Allan Rwakatungu, a Ugandan technology entrepreneur, has officially launched Tyms, a new AI-powered business-operations platform designed to embed customized virtual assistants directly into the...
AI Agent Builders Compared: Microsoft Leads on Governance, Open-Source Gains in Cost Control as of Mid-2026
Microsoft’s Copilot Studio has emerged as the governance gold standard for enterprise AI agents, but a new wave of open-source orchestration frameworks and no-code tools is challenging its cost and...
Inside DingTalk: Alibaba’s AI-Powered Workflow Control Plane Lands on Windows
DingTalk, Alibaba Group’s workplace collaboration juggernaut, quietly became the operating system for millions of Chinese businesses before most of the Western world had ever heard of it. Launched...
Copilot Cowork Goes GA: Microsoft 365 Users Can Now Delegate Multi‑Step Tasks to Anthropic AI Agents
Microsoft 365 Copilot just got a lot more autonomous. On June 16, 2026, the company quietly removed the “Frontier preview” label from Copilot Cowork and made the Intelligent Work Delegation...