OpenAI is accelerating its enterprise AI ambitions with a new partner network, deployment company, and plans to certify 300,000 consultants by year-end.
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Christopher Lochhead explains why AI is commoditizing knowledge and execution, making creativity and differentiation the most valuable assets in business.
Latest release of agent-building platform bolsters orchestration in complex workflows, simplifies integration by tapping Model Context Protocol (MCP).
James Oleinik explains how enterprises can scale AI by combining centralized governance with business-led innovation and operational flexibility.
James Oleinik explains how Microsoft Entra and Purview provide identity, observability, and centralized governance for managing enterprise AI agents at scale.
Agent Optimizer functions ensure Foundry Hosted Agents adhere to user-defined criteria for the best instructions, skills, models, and tool descriptions.
Microsoft is expanding its AI strategy by embedding Copilot directly into Microsoft 365 Business Standard and Premium plans, simplifying licensing and accelerating AI adoption among small and medium-sized businesses beginning July 1.
Christopher Lochhead explains why AI is making knowledge and execution less valuable while elevating human judgment, taste, creativity, and category creation.
NVIDIA-powered ‘Dev Box’ delivers horsepower to execute massive AI models from local systems on an ‘unmetered’ basis, while reference designs aim to make AI computing ubiquitous.
Oracle and Alphabet are pioneering new approaches to finance massive AI infrastructure expansion, using debt and equity markets to meet unprecedented customer demand for cloud and AI services.
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott says the company is now AI-native and targeting five high-growth markets worth more than $600 billion, backed by strong momentum in AI, security, CRM, employee experience, and data management.
Microsoft updates Finance Agent to provide a command center-type interface, as well as support for natural language prompts to gain and act on financial insights.
Christopher Lochhead explains how AI is making knowledge and execution increasingly free, shifting competitive advantage to agent-driven systems.
Autopilots increase the level of AI autonomy and automation. Build event also places major focus on agentic AI development — and controls — at the desktop.
OpenAI’s enterprise business now accounts for 40% of revenue and could reach 50% by year-end, signaling a major shift toward enterprise AI leadership.
Support for Compliance API gives Purview visibility into conversations and events, bringing both data types in Claude under broader enterprise controls.
Agent 365 introduces a unified control plane for managing enterprise AI agents, giving IT leaders centralized visibility, governance, security guardrails, and observability across the agentic workplace.
Giuseppe Ianni and Nandita Puri discuss how AI is helping connect fragmented biomedical research, reducing years of literature review into months of analysis and creating new opportunities for rare disease treatments.
Features for controlling the actions of agents — ensuring they don’t misbehave — bring the enterprise-level controls required by IT/security pros and business leaders alike.
Dona Sarkar explains why coding agents succeed first in AI adoption thanks to structured data, clear validation, and measurable outcomes.