Microsoft Agent 365 has been introduced as a control plane to help organizations deploy and manage AI agents at scale. Unveiled November 18, Agent 365 is available through Microsoft’s Frontier program for early access to AI technologies. Agent 365 lets users manage an organization’s agents at scale, regardless of where these agents are built or

Enterprises need data, and data needs to be stored, with a flexible, portable environment that scales from developers’ laptops to global clouds. That storage also needs to be able to run on any OS and any cloud without breaking the bank. There aren’t many options. You might be able to use MySQL or any of

Data science and machine learning teams face a hidden productivity killer: annotation errors. Recent research from Apple analyzing production machine learning (ML) applications found annotation error rates averaging 10% across search relevance tasks. Even ImageNet, computer vision’s gold standard benchmark, contains a 6% error rate that MIT CSAIL discovered in 2024—errors that have skewed model

Google has launched Gemini 3 and integrated the new AI model into its search engine immediately, aiming to push advanced AI features into consumer and enterprise products faster as competition in the AI market intensifies. The release brings new agentic capabilities for coding, workflow automation, and search, raising questions about how quickly businesses can adopt

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called on Congress to establish a single federal standard for AI regulation, as House Republicans explore attaching preemption language to the National Defense Authorization Act that could override state AI laws nationwide. In two posts on Truth Social, Trump urged lawmakers to act quickly. “Investment in AI is helping to

Microsoft Ignite 2025  runs November 18-21, 2025, in San Francisco, with an optional pre-day on November 17. Can’t make it to the Moscone Center in San Francisco? No problem. It’s a hybrid event, and you can register to attend Ignite (for free) virtually here. You can expect to learn more about AI, cloud computing, security, productivity

Yesterday, we looked at how Macs can provide on-premises AI services for you; today we’re going to speculate a little more. Consider this: millions of people use iPhones to access public generative AI (genAI) tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and others. When you use those tools, you’re sharing your data with cloud providers, which isn’t necessarily a

US research firm Gartner predicts that IT spending in Europe will increase by 11% to a total of $1.4 trillion in 2026. Growth is expected to be driven by AI, cloud computing and cybersecurity, despite limited IT budgets and few new hires. Spending on generative AI is expected to grow by 78%, while cloud investments

Microsoft will reduce the price of Microsoft 365 Copilot for small and mid-sized firms beginning next month. As of Dec. 1, 2025, Microsoft 365 Copilot for Business will cost $21 per user, per month for customers with any Microsoft 365 Business plan. That’s down from the current $30 price per month set when the tool

Over the next few years, agentic AI is expected to bring not only rapid technological breakthroughs, but a societal transformation, redefining how we live, work and interact with the world. And this shift is happening quickly. “By 2028, 33% of enterprise software applications will include agentic AI, up from less than 1% in 2024, enabling