4+ hour, 50+ min ago  (307+ words) Microsoft has introduced optimization features that evaluate AI agents hosted in its Foundry service to maximize their performance in production applications. It does so using automated, rather than the current manual, processes. Agents built on Microsoft Foundry don't automatically meet…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (533+ words) Microsoft's annual Build conference this week featured more local, and more flexible, hardware options to support developers' agentic AI projects. New hardware included a Windows PC that's purpose-built for AI development " leveraging the latest NVIDIA Spark chips " and the disclosure…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (541+ words) Microsoft introduced a new class of AI agent " "Autopilots" " that operate on a user's behalf in a fully autonomous way at the Build conference opening keynote Tuesday. It also introduced the first Autopilot agent, called Scout, which is powered by…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (259+ words) Kieron Allen is a Cloud Wars Analyst examining innovations in, and the future impact of, the latest AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data technology developments. In his ongoing analyses and video reports, Allen focuses on the platforms, applications, people, and ideas…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (199+ words) Microsoft this week outlined tools for governing AI agents at runtime; they perform policy enforcement prior to executing actions, identity management between agents, and agnostic support for widely used AI agent frameworks. Collectively, the Agent Governance Toolkit ensures enterprise-level controls…...

3+ week, 11+ hour ago  (134+ words) In this Cloud Wars special report, Bob Evans speaks with Chad Wahlquist, Architect at Palantir, about the company's explosive Q1 performance and the deeper forces driving enterprise AI adoption. Wahlquist explains how Palantir's model goes far beyond traditional software, combining forward…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (165+ words) In this moment, excerpted from his keynote, James Oleinik, Partner Director of Product Management, Microsoft, outlined how Microsoft is designing enterprise software around an agentic system of work " where Copilot becomes the primary interface for employees and autonomous agents increasingly…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago  (440+ words) This time, it's Service Now. Previously, I reported on Microsoft's ambitions to deliver Open Claw-style agentic capabilities to its customers. You can read more about that here: "Microsoft Accelerates Toward an Agentic Copilot Future Inspired by Open Claw-Style AI Systems....

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (150+ words) In this moment, excerpted from his keynote, Microsoft's James Oleinik outlined a major shift in enterprise software " from app-centric workflows to agent-centric systems " and what it means for how work gets done. App-Centric Work is Reaching its Limits: For decades,…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (410+ words) All too often, an organization's processes, policies, and domain'expertise aren't documented; instead, they're referred to with the "institutional knowledge" euphemism while companies hope the people holding that knowledge don't leave the organization. But in the AI era, that lack of…...