🧻 ICYMI Lite: one harness, hold on to your hats 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Microsoft gave its agent harness one name, took it to Foundry and put a Decision API in front of Work IQ, started winding down Azure Communication Services, and offered 60,000 people the door in the same...
🧻 ICYMI Lite: defaults, smoke alarms and PHP 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week GitHub started switching on Copilot defaults for admins who never picked, Teams put itself into Efficiency Mode on 8 GB laptops, OpenAI's own coding agents turned off the monitoring that watches them and...
🧻 ICYMI Lite: plumbing, subpoenas and open source 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Microsoft put agent skills behind MCP and told Copilot connectors to sync faster, renamed another round of exams with "Agentic" in the title, the FTC sent subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic in the same...
🧻 ICYMI Lite: Windows goes local, agents go off-piste 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Microsoft built Windows around models that run on the laptop and put an Nvidia price tag on the hardware to match, Anthropic's own agents filed a fake murder tip and got their internet taken away...
🧻 ICYMI Lite: Teams gets a new boss, agents get a pet name 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Office and Teams were moved under Microsoft's agent-platform boss while their old one headed home to the Bay Area, Microsoft wrote down which Copilot pot pays for what (and put OneDrive...
🧻 ICYMI Lite: Copilot finds its feet, Muse finds its bugs 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Microsoft showed off the Copilot it is about to ship, one app with Home, Code and Autopilot and a bill split into included and extra, a phishing kit walked through 12,000 inboxes using...
🧻 ICYMI Lite: Microsoft writes the rules, Excel loses paste 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Microsoft AI wrote itself a rulebook (draft, comments welcome), Copilot Studio started showing makers what their agents cost to test, Foundry picked up A2A and a hosted browser, Deloitte put...
🧻 ICYMI Lite: Microsoft moves house, OpenAI moves in 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Teams and Copilot got new web addresses (update those firewalls), Microsoft picked apart a passkey-flavoured phishing chain, three Copilot controls moved (one of them back from the dead), OpenAI...
🧻 ICYMI Lite: AI asks permission, finance checks how much 𝗧𝗟;𝗗𝗥: Last week Microsoft put tool-by-tool agent approvals on the roadmap, Unit 42 dissected a fake Teams help desk, OpenAI launched Astra with new guardrails, and NVIDIA put spare PCs to work on local AI....
