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Microsoft quietly assembles the largest AI agent ecosystem—and no one else is close
ANALYSIS: Microsoft has quietly built the largest enterprise AI agent ecosystem, with over 100,000 organizations creating or editing AI agents through its Copilot Studio since launch – a ...Tech - VentureBeat - 15 hours ago -
Microsoft’s new Magentic-One system directs multiple AI agents to complete user tasks
Magnetic-One, Microsoft's AI agent orchestration framework, deploys multiple agents to solve daily tasks autonomously.Tech - VentureBeat - November 5 -
Microsoft Will Let Clients Build Their Own AI Agents
In November, customers can start using Copilot Studio to make their own AI apps to perform many routine tasks.Business - Inc. - October 21 -
Microsoft pitches AI 'agents' that can perform tasks on their own at Ignite 2024
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told customers at a conference in Chicago on Tuesday that the company is teaching a new set of artificial intelligence tools how to “act on our behalf across our work ...Tech - ABC News - 10 hours ago -
Microsoft’s new AI agents support 1,800 models (and counting)
New Copilot capabilities allow users to build customized autonomous AI agents, pull from out-of-the-box options and deploy without coding.Tech - VentureBeat - 15 hours ago -
Microsoft brings transactional databases to Fabric to boost AI agents
At its Ignite 2024 conference today, Microsoft announced a major step toward breaking down data silos separating transactional databases and analytical tools. The tech giant revealed that Azure ...Tech - VentureBeat - 15 hours ago -
Microsoft launches Azure AI Foundry with agent orchestration, management tools
Microsoft's new developer tools lets users build orchestration frameworks and evaluate AI models and agents.Tech - VentureBeat - 12 hours ago -
Microsoft to roll out new autonomous AI agents next month, fending off challenge from Salesforce
Microsoft will allow organizations to create their own autonomous AI agents within Copilot starting next month.Business - CNBC - October 21 -
Microsoft to roll out new autonomous AI agents next month, fending off challenge from Salesforce
LONDON — Microsoft will allow businesses to start making their own autonomous artificial intelligence agents starting next month, taking the fight back to Salesforce, which introduced its own ...Top stories - NBC News - October 21 -
Microsoft’s new AI agents set to shake up enterprise software, sparking new battle with Salesforce
Microsoft launches autonomous AI agents for Dynamics 365, challenging Salesforce's Agentforce in the race to dominate enterprise AI and reshape the future of work.Tech - VentureBeat - October 21 -
Amazon-backed Anthropic debuts AI agents that can do complex tasks, racing against OpenAI, Microsoft and Google
Anthropic, the Amazon-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI research executives, announced AI agents that can use a computer to complete complex tasks.Business - CNBC - October 22 -
Microsoft Just Revealed 5 New AI Agents to Help You Work Smarter
The tech giant says these agents will help free people from the drudgery of work.Business - Inc. - 15 hours ago -
Tencent challenges Amazon and Microsoft's cloud dominance by tapping into its WeChat ecosystem
Tencent Cloud is increasingly leveraging the WeChat ecosystem to set itself apart from competitors, CEO Dowson Tong said.Business - CNBC - Yesterday -
Biden's election season draws quietly to a close
For President Joe Biden, the 2024 campaign ended much as it began, in a room full of union members.Politics - NBC News - November 5 -
Microsoft dips on weak guidance after beating on earnings
Microsoft reported better-than-expected results for the fiscal first quarter as Azure topped estimates. But quarterly growth guidance was light.Business - CNBC - October 30 -
Investors Want to See a Payout on Microsoft’s AI Efforts
As the tech giant readies a report of what’s forecast as its slowest quarterly growth in a year, shareholders want to see genuine demand for the AI applications it’s spent billions to develop.Business - Inc. - October 28 -
Meta and Microsoft Won’t Stop Spending on AI
Both tech giants reported strong third quarters but their stocks fell anyway.Business - Inc. - October 31 -
How to get started with AI agents (and do it right)
When should enterprises build custom in-house AI agents, adopt third-party models, or use open source tools?Tech - VentureBeat - 5 days ago -
The new paradigm: Architecting the data stack for AI agents
Discover how to build a robust data stack for your AI agents and unlock the full potential of generative AI.Tech - VentureBeat - 5 days ago -
AI agents’ momentum won’t stop in 2025
Interest in AI agents is high, and as enterprises get more comfortable with agents, 2025 may be the year AI agents finally go into production.Tech - VentureBeat - 5 days ago -
At this rate, Jets won't want Aaron Rodgers in 2025 — and no one else will
The Jets have finally reached their bye week.Sports - Yahoo Sports - 2 days ago -
In Finland, Building One of the World’s Largest Cruise Ships
In a Finnish shipyard, the 250,800-ton sister of Icon of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship, is in the final stages of construction. We got an inside look.Business - The New York Times - November 8 -
Asana AI Studio now offers AI agent creation for workflow management
Work management platform Asana said multiple AI agents on a workflow system gets rid of "busy work."Tech - VentureBeat - October 22 -
How Sema4.ai is empowering business users to deploy AI agents in minutes
Many early AI agents tend to be singularly-purposed or IT-driven. Sema4.ai says it is the differentiator for diverse horizontal use cases.Tech - VentureBeat - 5 days ago -
Avengers, Assemble
All eyes on Trump and his cabinet picks.Top stories - The New York Times - Yesterday -
Microsoft introduces ‘AI employees’ that can handle client queries
US company gives customers the ability to build own virtual agents as well as releasing 10 off-the-shelf bots. . Microsoft is introducing autonomous artificial intelligence agents, or virtual ...World - The Guardian - October 21 -
Microsoft says Russia trying to smear Harris with deepfake video, AI
Russia is attempting to “undermine” Vice President Harris’s campaign using artificial intelligence (AI) generated videos while China has begun targeting a series of GOP congressional candidates ...Politics - The Hill - October 23 -
Google’s AI-Fueled Results Bode Well for Rivals Amazon and Microsoft
Sales gains in its cloud business point to growing, sustained demand for AI-juiced computing power.Business - Inc. - October 30 -
Microsoft Cloud revenue rises on AI boom but softer outlook weighs on shares
Warnings of slowing Azure growth and rising data centre costs damp initial optimism on tech giant’s quarterly earningsBusiness - Financial Times - October 31 -
Microsoft Shares Slip as Forecast Sparks Concern About AI and Cloud Revenue
The company’s projection points to less growth than anticipated, causing concern about the payoff for its massive AI investment.Business - The Wall Street Journal - October 31 -
Analysts tout an 'underappreciated growth driver' at Microsoft that can benefit from AI
RBC analysts cheered Microsoft stock on Tuesday. But, this time it's for more than just the company's cloud computing business and AI ambitions.Business - CNBC - November 5 -
Microsoft brings AI to the farm and factory floor, partnering with industry giants
Microsoft collaborates with Siemens, Bayer, and Rockwell Automation to launch industry-specific AI models designed to boost efficiency in manufacturing, agriculture, and finance through tailored AI ...Tech - VentureBeat - 6 days ago -
Microsoft supercharges Fabric with new data tools to accelerate enterprise AI workflows
At Ignite, Microsoft shared several new enhancements for Fabric, setting up the platform as the unified data layer for next-gen AI apps.Tech - VentureBeat - 15 hours ago -
Microsoft introduces PC that has one job: connect users to their computers in the cloud
Microsoft's latest stripped-down device is designed for corporate use and includes a new operating system.Business - CNBC - 14 hours ago -
Gartner: 2025 will see the rise of AI agents (and other top trends)
Also keep an eye on AI governance tools, hybrid computing, disinformation security, post-quantum cryptography and even more out-there tech.Tech - VentureBeat - October 21 -
CrewAI now lets you build fleets of enterprise AI agents
CrewAI is one of the most popular AI agent frameworks, enabling users to quickly and simply build, deploy and iterate multi-agent “crews.”Tech - VentureBeat - October 22 -
Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer
Claude is the first major AI model to be able to take control of a computer to do useful work.Tech - Wired - October 22 -
DeepMind’s Talker-Reasoner framework brings System 2 thinking to AI agents
Talker-Reasoner is inspired by the two-system thinking cognitive framework proposed by Daniel Kahneman.Tech - VentureBeat - October 24
