At Ignite, Microsoft said software is 'evolving from being made for people to being made by people.' Attendees I spoke with were intrigued, but a little confused about how to make that work.

At the keynote for Microsoft’s (MSFT) Ignite event in San Francisco, the company unveiled numerous ways to create, integrate, and manage AI-powered agents into its Microsoft 365 suite of productivity ...

Microsoft is no longer content to sell individual AI copilots, it now wants to sit on top of the entire agent stack and coordinate how those bots behave at work. With Agent 365, the company is ...

As agent-based AI systems grow more sophisticated, developers are moving well beyond basic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) into a new era of autonomous, tool-integrated, and multi-agent ...

Microsoft is moving beyond copilots to fully autonomous agents. Foundry and MCP let agents assemble solutions using 1,400 tools. IQ services aim to give agents true context and understanding. At ...

Managing and maintaining AI systems remains a challenge for many enterprises, particularly with the potential for agentic sprawl to expose businesses to risky entry points. Microsoft entered the ...

Microsoft announced new or improved AI security agents at Ignite. Security agent functionality is surfaced within Microsoft's relevant management portal. The agents are free to all Copilot Security ...

Microsoft published a walkthrough demonstrating how to upgrade a .NET AI chat app built from the official .NET AI templates to use the new Microsoft Agent Framework. The preview framework extends ...

Eric Jing is on a mission to shift people from just talking with chatbots to using AI as an everyday companion to get work done, all from one platform. That platform is Genspark Super Agent from ...

Agent 365 combines a registry, access control, observability, and security for managing all AI agents, built or acquired, across an enterprise. Microsoft Agent 365 has been introduced as a control ...