Microsoft 365 Copilot
The latest Microsoft 365 Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Abu Dhabi’s 35,000 Copilot seats mean AI is now government infrastructure. The security test starts now.
Abu Dhabi has placed Microsoft 365 Copilot into the hands of 35,000 civil servants across 27 government entities, making it one of the largest public-sector rollouts of generative AI to date. The...
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...
Canva Allots AI Budgets and a Week Off to 5,300 Employees Instead of Mandating One Tool
Canva cofounder and chief product officer Cameron Adams disclosed in a July 15 interview with Rapid Response that the design platform gives its more than 5,300 employees the freedom to choose their...
LSEG’s AI Agent Can Now Answer Your Financial Queries Inside Teams — With Copilot on Deck
LSEG today flipped the switch on an AI-powered research agent that lets financial professionals grill a chatbot with plain-English questions—and get answers backed by citations—directly inside...
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Model Solves 50-Year-Old Math Puzzle – and It’s Coming to Your Microsoft 365 Apps
OpenAI launched its GPT-5.6 model family on July 9, and within the first week the company says its top-tier Sol Ultra configuration produced a proof for the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture – a graph...
Microsoft Fixes Copilot's Permission Blindspot for Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow
Microsoft has quietly rolled out a critical security update to its Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors. Starting in April 2026, connectors for Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow can now evaluate nested...
Microsoft Copilot’s Outlook AI Requires Exchange Online — And That Changes Everything
A widely shared roundup of the “best AI email assistants” for 2026, published by AutoGPT.net on July 13, is missing a detail that matters enormously to the millions of people who live in...
Zero-Touch Windows Deployments Take Center Stage at NerdioCon 2026
NerdioCon 2026 made available an on-demand session detailing how IT teams can use Windows Autopilot and Microsoft Intune to deliver fully configured Windows desktops from day one—without any manual...
Microsoft Retires Copilot Surveys Agent: Switch to Forms by August 2026
Microsoft is retiring the Surveys Agent from the Microsoft 365 Copilot Store. The deadline: August 31, 2026. After that date, you won’t be able to create new surveys using the agent’s natural...
GPT-5.6 Powers Microsoft 365 Copilot: Here’s What Changes for Users
Microsoft’s push into AI-assisted productivity took another step forward on Friday, July 10, 2025, when OpenAI designated GPT-5.6 as the preferred model for Microsoft 365 Copilot. The announcement,...
Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets Real-Time Webhook Connectors to Fix Stale AI Data, Coming October 2026
Microsoft plans to replace outdated polling with instant webhooks for Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors, ensuring the AI assistant always draws on the most current data from tools like Jira, Azure...
Microsoft Swaps Copilot’s Engine to GPT-5.6: Here’s What Changes in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint Starting July 9
On July 9, 2026, Microsoft began rolling out OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 as the new default AI model for Microsoft 365 Copilot, instantly upgrading the assistant’s reasoning, context handling, and accuracy...