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The latest Ai Agents coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Paul Thurrott Warns Microsoft's MAI Models Could Miss the AI Shift in Productivity
On July 10, 2026, veteran Microsoft analyst Paul Thurrott published a stark assessment of the company’s AI strategy. In his regular “Ask Paul” column, Thurrott argued that Microsoft’s...
AI Agents That Run for Days: Microsoft Foundry’s Managed Hosting Goes Live
Microsoft moved its hosted agent service to general availability this week, giving developers a managed runtime for AI workflows that need hours, days, or weeks to complete. The release, part of...
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Work to Let Businesses Generate Documents, Decks, and Sites with Plain Language
OpenAI today opened access to ChatGPT Work, a new AI-powered productivity tool that transforms plain-language instructions into polished documents, presentations, and websites. Rolling out now to...
AI Agents in 2026: No Single Winner, Just Four Markets That Windows Users Need to Understand
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ChatGPT Work Lands on Windows: Your AI Assistant Now Takes Action
OpenAI released a new enterprise-focused desktop application on June 9, bringing an AI agent that can take actions on your behalf—not just generate text—to Windows PCs. Called ChatGPT Work, the...
Free AI Courses in July 2026: What Windows Users Need to Know About Agent Safety and Prompting
A fresh batch of free AI courses landed in July 2026, with a sharp focus on practical skills that everyday Windows users and IT professionals need as artificial intelligence becomes embedded in the...
Zendesk's AI Assistant Lands in Microsoft 365—Here's How It Changes Employee Support
Zendesk is bringing its AI-powered employee-service tools directly into Microsoft 365. On June 2, 2026, the company released Zendesk Support Assistant for Microsoft 365 on Microsoft AppSource,...
Microsoft Scraps Scheduled Prompts for Copilot Agents, Leaving Power Users in the Lurch
Microsoft has removed a feature from its Microsoft 365 Roadmap that would have let users schedule recurring prompts for declarative Copilot agents. The change, recorded on July 6, 2026, cancels...
Microsoft Copilot's Big Reset: One App to Rule Them All and a Line-Item Bill for AI Agents
Microsoft is preparing to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot apps into a single unified experience, with a target completion of August 2026. The overhaul, outlined in an internal roadmap...
One AI Agent Query Can Use 136× More Power Than a Standard Chatbot, KAIST Finds
AI agents that browse the web, write code, and chain together multi-step plans can consume up to 136.5 times more energy per question than a regular chatbot-style generative AI model. That’s the...
OpenAI Plans a Single Desktop Hub for ChatGPT and AI Agents, Launching by 2026
OpenAI is building a unified desktop application, codenamed Codex, that will merge ChatGPT, AI agents, and developer tooling into one workspace, with a target release in 2026. The move signals a...
Microsoft, WorkOS, Auth0 Top New 2026 Roundup of Agent Identity Platforms—Here’s Why It Matters
On July 3, 2026, Analytics Insight published a roundup naming six platforms it considers frontrunners in the rapidly evolving field of agent identity and authentication: WorkOS, Auth0, Composio,...