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eGain AI Knowledge Hub Connectors: Enterprise AI Governance for Microsoft Copilot and Other LLMs
eGain Corporation has launched AI Knowledge Hub Connectors that bridge enterprise knowledge bases with leading large language models including Microsoft Copilot, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and...
Anthropic's MCP Donation to Linux Foundation: What It Means for Windows AI Development
The recent announcement that Anthropic is donating its Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the newly formed Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation represents a significant shift in how...
Agentic AI Foundation Unites MCP, Goose & AGENTS.md for Enterprise AI Safety
The formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation marks a pivotal moment in the evolution of artificial intelligence, as the industry transitions from conversational AI...
Apple AI Leadership Shakeup: What Amar Subramanya's Promotion Means for Siri and Windows Competition
In a significant corporate reshuffle that signals Apple's intensified focus on artificial intelligence, the tech giant has announced a major leadership change in its AI division. Long-time AI chief...
Teams' AI Project Manager is here: How to set it up and why your Copilot license matters
Microsoft has begun rolling out a public preview of an AI-driven Project Manager agent inside Teams that can autonomously create project plans, assign tasks to itself, and generate status reports –...
Your Teams Meetings Now Have an AI Facilitator—and It Can Assign Tasks for You
Microsoft is shipping an AI agent that automatically takes meeting notes, captures decisions, and hands out follow‑up tasks—and it’s hitting general availability in Teams today. Alongside it, a...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets Finance, Sales, and Service Assistants – Here’s What Changes in October
Microsoft will start embedding specialized AI assistants directly into the Office apps that finance, sales, and service teams already use all day. In October 2025, the company plans to release...
SymphonyAI Connects Plant Floors to Microsoft Teams via MCP
SymphonyAI announced on September 16 that its IRIS Foundry industrial AI platform now surfaces insights directly inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot, using the Model Context Protocol to...
Accordance AI Brain Goes Public with $13M Funding, Sourcetable Superagents Redefine Spreadsheet Connectivity
The tax and accounting profession got a jolt of AI this week as two companies unveiled tools that promise to fundamentally change how financial data is analyzed and acted upon. Accordance, a startup...
Visual Studio 2026 Preview Lands with Agent Mode, BYOM, and Fluent Design
Microsoft has released the first public preview of Visual Studio 2026 through a new Insiders channel, delivering the IDE’s most substantial AI overhaul yet with autonomous coding agents,...
Microsoft makes MCP and A2A the backbone of Agent Factory to liberate enterprise AI from vendor silos
Microsoft is staking its Agent Factory initiative on two open protocols to break the enterprise AI agent out of its silo and into a governed, multi‑vendor ecosystem. The company’s latest...
Visual Studio 2026 Debuts Agentic Copilot Superpowers—and New Attack Vectors
Microsoft fired its boldest shot yet in the AI-first IDE war, launching Visual Studio 2026 (version 18.0) through a new Insiders Channel that replaces the long-standing Preview program. The release...