Microsoft is preparing to expand access to advanced AI models across its Microsoft Copilot ecosystem, introducing usage-based billing (UBB) for GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 in Copilot Chat, Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The worldwide…
A Microsoft 365 agent can answer questions, summarize documents, retrieve business information, and automate everyday tasks. But when responses take too long, integrations fail, or answers become inconsistent under load, users quickly lose confidence in…
Microsoft is expanding Copilot Studio’s capabilities for building Copilot Chat agents, also known as declarative agents, with a set of enhancements scheduled to reach general availability on October 26, 2026. The update introduces six key…
An AI agent can answer hundreds of questions correctly and still fail when it matters most. It might retrieve outdated information, call the wrong action, exceed its response-time target, or expose data to someone who…
A single AI agent can summarize documents, answer questions, write code, and call external tools. But what happens when a task requires researching multiple sources, analyzing the results, validating assumptions, and producing a reliable deliverable?…
Planning a family vacation sounds exciting until you start comparing hotel prices, checking flight times, finding activities for different age groups, and figuring out how to fit everything into a few days. Add dietary restrictions,…
Microsoft is preparing to retire the Copilot Studio app in Microsoft Teams by February 2027, marking another step in its transition toward managing chatbot agents through the Copilot Studio web app. The change will affect…
Microsoft 365 Copilot is expanding its legal capabilities with purpose-built plugins for Word and Cowork, giving legal professionals new ways to summarize, draft, review, and redline documents. The worldwide rollout spans April to December 2026,…
An AI agent that can answer a question is useful. An AI agent that can break a business problem into steps, call the right tools, evaluate results, and adjust its approach when something goes wrong…
An AI agent that forgets a user’s last instruction, repeats a completed task, or calls the wrong API isn’t just inconvenient. It’s a system design problem. A language model can generate impressive responses, but production…
Microsoft is introducing enhanced personalization in Microsoft 365 Copilot, allowing the AI assistant to use insights inferred from users’ Microsoft 365 work data to deliver more relevant, context-aware responses. The feature is scheduled for worldwide…
Microsoft is introducing customizable skills in Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, giving employees a way to tailor AI assistance to specific tasks while allowing IT administrators to control how these capabilities are deployed across their organizations.…
