Flint: The Most Interesting Microsoft Research Project You Haven't Heard Of
Microsoft Research released Flint, a visualisation language for AI agents with 46 chart types, 3 rendering backends, and a native MCP server. Here is why it matters.
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Copilot in Excel Adds Skills, Connectors, and Traceability - Built for Finance
Microsoft Copilot in Excel gets custom skills, six new financial data connectors, Plan with Copilot for preview-before-execute, and Copilot attribution in Show Changes. Here is how it all works, with examples.
Microsoft Scout: A Complete Guide to the Always-On Autopilot Agent
Microsoft Scout is the first Autopilot agent inside Microsoft 365. It stays on in the background, builds context about your work, and acts on your behalf. Here is everything you need to know: the Autopilot category, OpenClaw architecture, Work IQ, enterprise governance, eight example prompts, and how to get access.
Copilot Cowork: A Complete Guide to Microsoft's Autonomous AI Agent
Copilot Cowork is Microsoft's autonomous AI agent that takes action across Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneDrive. Here is everything you need to know: the 13 built-in skills, how custom skills work, pricing, a prompting guide, and ten real-world use cases.
DGX Spark Model Benchmark: Qwen 3.6 AEON vs Gemma-4 vs DiffusionGemma
Three-way benchmark of Qwen 3.6 27B, Gemma-4 26B, and DiffusionGemma 26B on a DGX Spark. Single-stream, aggregate throughput, KV cache, and deployment comparison.
How I Run My Home Lab Like a Small Production Environment
A sanitised look at how I use storage, networking, Home Assistant, monitoring, backups, security automation and local AI as one operating model.
Coreutils for Windows
Microsoft ships a native Windows build of uutils coreutils. Over 100 UNIX tools run natively on Windows. No WSL. No translation layer. This changes daily terminal work for Windows power users.
PewDiePie's Odysseus: The Creator Agent That Couldn't Pick a Lane
PewDiePie's new agent is open source and creator-focused, but the real story is why a YouTuber building agent software matters at all.
OpenAI Was Microsoft's AI Moat. After Build 2026, Microsoft Is Digging Its Own
Microsoft Build 2026 was the post-breakup keynote. Suleyman said it plainly: they need to prove they can build from the ground up. The reality is more complicated than the slide.
Perplexity Personal Computer for Windows Is Here
Perplexity is shipping a local Windows desktop agent. What it actually does, why the model-orchestration angle matters, and what I want to test first.
Microsoft Build 2026: The Governance Shift, On-Device AI, and Agent-First Devices
Build 2026 was not short on announcements. Microsoft covered Windows, Edge, GitHub, Azure, M365, devices, and models in one sweep. The interesting thread across all of them is governance and control.
Microsoft's Super App for Copilot Is the Right Move - If They Get Integration Right
Microsoft is consolidating GitHub Copilot, Copilot chat, Copilot Cowork and Autopilot into one super app. The idea is good. The integration is where it usually falls apart.
Microsoft Just Made the Biggest Problem in Enterprise Solvable
Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit adds deterministic policy enforcement for autonomous agents. Code-level gates, identity trails, and tamper-evident audit records.
I Have Been Testing Perplexity Computer Inside Microsoft 365
Perplexity Computer now works inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams. No tab switching, no copy-pasting. Hands-on with the M365 integration.
Azure AI Foundry Is Microsoft Betting on Governance as the Real Product
Azure AI Foundry is not another chatbot wrapper. It is the agent management layer most teams actually need: tracing, evaluation, deployment, and auditability.
Windows Build 2026: Why the Trusted Platform Matters for Agentic Development
Build 2026 made Windows 11 the host layer for modern development. The real story is OS-enforced containment for agents, not just developer convenience.
Edge Build 2026: On-Device AI Is Not a Backup Plan Anymore
At Build 2026, Microsoft Edge added on-device AI with Aion-1.0-Instruct, language APIs, and speech recognition. The shift is local inference becoming the default for web workloads.
GitHub Copilot App: Why Agent-Native Development Needs a Control Room
The GitHub Copilot app is a desktop control centre for multi-agent development. Parallel sessions, worktrees, and context from repos, issues and pull requests in one view.
Azure Discovery: Why R&D Agents Need Traceable Workflows, Not Just Chat Interfaces
Azure Discovery is now generally available. It wraps scientific and engineering workflows in governed agentic loops. The pattern applies to any team that needs auditability and evidence preservation.
Project Solara: Agent-First Devices Need a Platform, Not Just a Product
Project Solara is Microsoft's platform bet for agent-first devices. The direction is right. The execution risk is the same as every other Microsoft platform play outside Xbox and Azure.
Work IQ APIs: Productivity Signals Are Useful Only If They Are Governed
Microsoft 365 Work IQ APIs turn collaboration data into productivity signals. The opportunity is real. The governance requirement is non-negotiable.
MAI Models: Why Model Size Matters Less Than Governance
Microsoft launched seven new MAI models at Build 2026. The direction is smaller, specialised, and cheaper. The real issue is governance, not model choice.
Microsoft Scout: The Always-On Agent That Needs Clear Boundaries
Microsoft Scout is an always-on personal agent in M365. Ambient assistance is useful only if users and IT can control what it sees, stores, and acts on.
Microsoft Build 2026: Windows Gets Built-In AI Agent Sandboxing
Microsoft Build 2026: Windows gets built-in AI agent sandboxing with MXC, OpenClaw support, and NVIDIA OpenShell. Runtime containment is the only acceptable model for enterprise agents.
Web IQ: Why Semantic Search Needs Governance, Not Just Better Retrieval
Bing Web IQ promises smarter search through task understanding. In enterprise, search quality is a compliance and IP issue. Governance is the missing layer.
Learning Agent: Why Context-Aware Upskilling Needs Boundaries
The Microsoft 365 Learning Agent is now generally available. It personalises learning inside the flow of work. The governance question is what employee signals it uses and who can see them.
Microsoft Redesigned the M365 Copilot Adoption Hub
The redesigned adoption hub organises content around three roles: AI Business User, AI Champion, AI Leader. Practical prompts and examples instead of generic guidance.
Copilot in PowerPoint Can Now Turn Text Into Slides
PowerPoint's new Copilot skill, Visualize this slide, converts walls of text into designed slides. Useful, but still only part of what makes a presentation work.
Microsoft Open-Sources Rampart and Clarity for Production Agent Safety
Microsoft open-sourced Rampart and Clarity to help teams build safer AI agents. Two tools that move safety from annual review to CI and design stage.
Governed Data Is the Missing Layer for AI Agents
AI agents need governed data to be useful. Salesforce and Informatica are turning that connection into infrastructure.
White Collar AI Jobs: High-Value Automation First
Pros and Cons: Will AI automate white-collar work within 18 months? Not every job will be replaced by AI. The real advantage goes to teams that automate the right work first.
A Proxy for Microsoft 365 Copilot in OpenAI-Compatible Tools
A local FastAPI proxy makes Microsoft 365 Copilot available as a model provider for any AI agent or CLI tool that already supports the OpenAI chat completions format.
DGX Spark: Running Production AI on a $3,000 Desktop
Local vLLM inference with Hermes Agent, benchmark results, and the economics of running a private LLM node on a desktop.
