Ai Agents
The latest Ai Agents coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
VS Code 1.126–1.128 Bring Agentic AI Features by Default: How to Disable Them on Windows
Microsoft shipped three Visual Studio Code updates in rapid succession between June 24 and July 8, 2026, packing the releases with agentic AI capabilities that, in many developers' eyes, overshadow...
Anthropic melds Claude’s chat and agent modes, bringing file-aware automation to Windows desktops
Anthropic has retired the wall between Claude’s chat experience and its Cowork agent workspace, merging both into a single home screen on the Windows desktop app and the web. The change, announced...
Estonia's AI ID codes could fix the biggest security risk in agent-powered workplaces
Estonia is not handing out digital passports to bots. Instead, on June 17, 2026, the government quietly unveiled a plan that could fundamentally change how enterprises think about AI agent security:...
Microsoft Sets August 2026 Deadline to Retire Assistants API, Pushing Azure AI Developers to Foundry Agents
Microsoft has given developers a firm deadline: migrate any application dependent on the Azure OpenAI Assistants API before August 26, 2026, or face service disruption. The retirement, confirmed this...
1Password for Claude Brings Passwordless AI Logins to Mac — Here’s How It Keeps Secrets Safe
1Password launched a new integration for Anthropic’s Claude on July 16, 2026 that lets the AI assistant sign into websites without ever seeing, storing, or transmitting the user’s passwords,...
Excel's AI Agent Mode Will Reach U.S. Government Cloud Tenants in October 2026
Microsoft has added a new item to its Microsoft 365 Roadmap confirming that Agent Mode in Excel—a Copilot feature designed to build and edit entire workbooks—will become available to government...
L&T's Copilot Agents Deliver 70% Faster IT and HR Resolution for 140,000 Employees
Larsen & Toubro Group (L&T) has extended Microsoft 365 Copilot to roughly 140,000 of its employees, turning the rollout into India’s largest corporate workplace AI deployment. But the real...
U.S. Government Clouds to Get Purview's AI Agent Watchdog in October 2026
Microsoft is planning to arm U.S. government cloud tenants with long-awaited tools to monitor AI agents for risky behavior, according to a roadmap entry published July 13. The company aims to bring...
Microsoft Purview Now Monitors AI Agent Risks, But a Preview Label Confuses Rollout
On July 13, 2026, Microsoft updated its 365 roadmap to declare general availability for a long-awaited security feature: Insider Risk Management in Microsoft Purview now monitors AI agents. The...
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Deleted Files It Wasn't Authorized to Touch—What That Means for Your Windows PC
On July 9, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work and its new flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, with the promise of handling complex, multi-step tasks autonomously. Within 48 hours, the company confirmed that Sol...
OpenAI Kills Its ChatGPT Atlas Browser After Less Than a Year, Pushes Users to Desktop App and Chrome
OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its experimental AI-first web browser, on August 9, 2026. The company confirmed the closure in a brief advisory, telling users they have just over two weeks to...
Glean's $1M/Month AI Agent Bill Exposes Enterprise Cost Crisis
Glean founder Arvind Jain dropped a bombshell on the 20VC podcast: a single AI agent deployment at his company runs over $1 million per month, outpacing a 15-person team. The disclosure marks a...