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Anthropic has announced Claude Fable 5 as a public-facing version of its Mythos-class model, paired with a safety design that routes some higher-risk requests elsewhere. The release matters not just because of the model claims, but because it shows where frontier AI deployment is heading: broader access, narrower permissions, and far more explicit controls.
The news I got over the weekend struck like lightning: Nicki has died. All of us who were close to him expected it, but secretly hoped that something, somewhere in the universe would shift just a little and turn everything into a bad dream with a happy ending. But things don't work that way.
A corporate dissolution, a rival striking a compute deal, and a signal about where AI value is moving.
Week three of the Oakland trial has put the architecture of enterprise AI's most consequential partnership on the public record.
The new hub at aka.ms/m365migrationdocs covers external-platform and tenant-to-tenant scenarios across email, files and chat.
Channels, messages, attachments, canvases and membership are in scope today. DMs, group chats and Loop integration are on the roadmap.
A preview rebrands and reworks the old Query Activity into Data Warehouse Monitor — folding running queries, historical analysis, and query cancellation into one view.
Microsoft's latest Copilot UI rework moves the entry point out of the ribbon, adds context-aware prompt suggestions, and quietly tightens up keyboard and screen-reader support across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
A French lab 20x'd its ARR in a year by treating "smaller than OpenAI" as a feature, not a bug.
Microsoft's Foundry Hosted Agents aim to take the operational headache out of shipping Agent Framework agents — though it's still preview territory.
A preview API brings columnar binary results, multi-EVALUATE queries, and much higher row limits to anyone integrating with semantic models.
A unified view of AI risk across Defender, Entra, and Purview is finally here — but the value depends on how you use it.
In April 2026, Mozilla shipped fixes for 423 security bugs in Firefox. The month before, it was 76. The month before that, 61. Across all of 2025, the average sat between 17 and 31 a month. So something happened — and Mozilla isn't being coy about it. The "something" was a restricted-access Anthropic model called Claude Mythos Preview, paired with an agentic harness Mozilla's engineers built to put it to work.
OpenAI just put GPT-5-class reasoning inside the audio loop, took the Realtime API to GA, and priced translation at a third of a cent per minute. The voice agent stack everyone built last year suddenly looks expensive.
Scaling pilots, smarter scheduling, structured ops messaging, and hands-free inspections — Microsoft's latest frontline drop is more practical than flashy.
A modern, production-ready replacement for full-fidelity mailbox migration is finally here, with caveats worth reading before you commit.
A CLI-based evaluation framework signals that "ship it and hope" is no longer good enough for Copilot agents.
ECS 2027 is heading to CCD Düsseldorf, 31 May - 02 June, and we're opening the doors with a thank-you to the community that built this event. Lock in your seat for €325 instead of €895 (that's our Community Early Bird!), no strings attached. Expect again 3,000+ attendees, 250+ sessions, and the worlds best speakers.
Offer ends 15 May 2026.
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A region-by-region read on Microsoft's latest infrastructure update — and why sovereignty, latency, and multi-region design are climbing the priority list.
Microsoft is making governed enterprise data discoverable directly from where AI builders work — no more tab-hopping for URLs.
Microsoft just made data-lake permissions a property of the data itself, not the engine on top of it. Here's why that matters for anyone running Fabric.
Microsoft is making some major changes to Microsoft 365 in 2026. Two things IT leaders and admins should know:
For IT teams, this raises some important questions.
How much will these changes increase your Microsoft 365 costs? Do your current license assignments reflect how employees actually use Microsoft 365? Where might there be opportunities to optimize your Microsoft 365 footprint before costs increase?
Let's dive in.
How Jabra’s Scalable Video Solutions Bring Hybrid Meetings to Life.
At European Sign Expo 2026 in Cologne, we are excited to present how modern Microsoft 365 solutions can turn complex digital environments into structured, efficient, and scalable workplaces.
Microsoft 365 has become the backbone of modern collaboration. From email and documents to Teams chats and identity services, it powers how organizations work every day. But while Microsoft delivers a resilient platform, one critical fact remains: data protection is a shared responsibility — and protecting your Microsoft 365 data ultimately lies with you.
A manufacturing company wants to know which of its 14,000 SKUs actually turn a profit. The answer sits in three systems that have never exchanged a single data point. Until recently, getting it required three departments, two weeks and a good deal of goodwill. Since early 2026, an AI can answer that question in minutes: search the data, draw connections, produce a recommendation. Provided, that is, it has access.
The models are ready. They act, execute tasks across multiple steps and system boundaries, prepare decisions, trigger workflows. Many companies have already had their first taste of this through Copilot, but Copilot knows the M365 universe: emails, documents, calendars. To point AI at the data that actually runs the business, at ERP, CRM, IoT and production systems, you need a different foundation.
That foundation has three parts. We built each of them as a managed service, each goes live in three to four weeks, and together they form the platform on which AI can do real work.
As organisations across the Adriatics accelerate their Microsoft 365 adoption, strong governance is becoming essential—not optional. With the rise of Copilot and AIpowered productivity, knowing who has access to what and how your storage is being consumed is now a critical part of digital readiness.
DeliverPoint, built natively for modern SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams, gives organisations the visibility and control they need to stay secure, compliant, and efficient.
For years, the collaboration industry has been driven by experience. We focused on creating impressive spaces, larger displays, better cameras, and environments designed to inspire. Technology became something to showcase, something to feel.
We are excited to join Collab Summit as a sponsor and connect with IT, security, and business leaders who are shaping the future of digital workplaces. At Rencore, our mission is simple: empowering organizations to evolve their digital workplace with confidence and control.
As organizations rapidly adopt AI and Copilot, governance becomes the prerequisite – not the afterthought.
Governance helps you to keep your environment secure, compliant, and cost-efficient while enabling people to collaborate and build freely!
That’s exactly where Rencore Governance comes in – and what we’ll be showcasing at Collab Summit.
As enterprises across Europe move rapidly toward AI driven operating models, the challenge is no longer experimentation—it is governance, control, cost optimization, and scale. YASH Technologies, a global digital transformation partner and Microsoft Solutions Partner, will be showcasing its capabilities at Booth No. 80 at the European AI & Cloud Summit 2026, helping organizations confidently evolve into AI first enterprises using Microsoft Cloud and NEUPAC™, YASH’s Agentic AI platform.
With 18+ years of Microsoft expertise, 1,300+ consultants, and deep experience across Azure, Data & AI, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Security, and Modern Work, YASH helps enterprises operationalize AI with measurable business value. At ECS 2026, visitors to Booth No. 80 can learn how YASH’s OneMicrosoft approach, combined with NEUPAC, enables CIOs, CTOs, and CXOs to establish control, visibility, and trust across enterprise AI environments.
There’s a moment most managers know too well: a talented new colleague joins, six weeks pass, and they’re still operating at half speed. So, you schedule yet another catch up, explain the same context again, and quietly wonder: “Is this a people problem?”
It isn’t. It’s an environment problem, or two, actually.
The way enterprises engage customers is undergoing a fundamental shift. AI agents, autonomous goal-driven systems capable of reasoning, adapting, and acting, are no longer experimental. They are being deployed across customer service, sales, and support functions, redefining what is possible in enterprise customer experience (CX).
But with that opportunity comes complexity. Managing a growing number of AI agents, ensuring they operate within governance frameworks, integrating them across channels and platforms, and scaling them with consistency, these are challenges that many enterprises are only beginning to navigate.
At Infobip, we believe the answer lies in a dedicated orchestration layer: one that gives enterprises the control, flexibility, and scalability to move beyond AI pilots and into real, measurable impact.
That layer is AgentOS.
Let’s be honest: keeping up with Microsoft 365 and AI can feel like a full-time job. New features appear overnight, AI evolves at lightning speed, and users are expected to “just keep up.” Training often ends up being postponed, skipped, or forgotten.
That’s exactly why we created PlayForward and why we’re excited to showcase it at the European Collaboration Summit.
The intranet solution that helps SharePoint integrators deliver faster, better, and at scale.
Visit Booth #71 at the European Collaboration Summit 2026 and discover how Involv intranet helps Microsoft 365 and SharePoint experts standardize and accelerate intranet delivery - without compromising governance, flexibility, or commercial viability.
Involv intranet is a modular framework built natively on SharePoint and Microsoft 365. It is not a separate platform, but a structured layer that enhances what you already build. It provides preconfigured components, UX structure, and communication capabilities so you can deliver complete intranet solutions with less foundational build work and greater consistency.
Stop writing formulas. Stop fighting XML. Stop coding for your SharePoint solutions.
Just describe what you need. Let AI build it.
Today, companies increasingly rely on cloud-based solutions such as Microsoft 365. However, standard
functionalities are often not sufficient when it comes to structured information processes, legally compliant
archiving, reliable data backup, transparent responsibilities, and consistent data control. This is exactly
where sitaas GmbH comes in with the OCC | Online Compliance Center — as a specialized extension to
existing Microsoft 365 environments.
Win a PlayStation 5 Pro at our booth. But first, let's talk about something more pressing: the governance mess hiding in your M365 tenant.
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Lee Stott is a Principal Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, focused on developer experience, AI platforms, and cloud-native architectures. You can find him at ECS 2026 in Cologne, 5–7 May 2026.
My generation, people in their 50s, is the only one who sets up printers for our parents and our kids. Not because we are good with printers — because we have had to learn this industry from scratch more times than is reasonable. Eight-bit machines, PCs, the internet, mobile, cloud, and now AI. And, every few years, someone announces that everything is about to change.
Rob Pike, co-creator of Go, Plan 9, and UTF-8, received an AI-generated thank you email on Christmas Day and responded with fury. His reaction crystallizes essential concerns about AI's environmental impact, economic irrationality, and the irony of machines expressing gratitude they cannot feel.
Sponsoring a major event like the European Collaboration, AI and Cloud & BizApps Summit is far more than a logo on a banner, it's your chance to connect, engage, and leave a lasting impression. Learn how to make the most of your sponsorship.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Memory fundamentally changes how AI assistants personalize enterprise productivity. By remembering user preferences, working styles, and project context, Memory transforms Copilot from a stateless assistant into an adaptive productivity partner that learns continuously.
Microsoft has consolidated its agentic AI capabilities into a single open-source framework that unifies research-driven innovation with enterprise-grade reliability. Released in public preview on October 1, 2025, Microsoft Agent Framework merges AutoGen's dynamic multi-agent orchestration with Semantic Kernel's production foundations.
Microsoft announced a transformative evolution of Microsoft Sentinel from a cloud-native SIEM into a comprehensive agentic security platform, introducing the Model Context Protocol server in public preview, enabling autonomous AI agents to defend against sophisticated threats at machine speed.
Microsoft launched Fabric MCP Server on October 1, 2025, bringing the Model Context Protocol standard to its unified data platform. This open-source implementation enables AI agents like GitHub Copilot and Claude to interact with Fabric workloads through natural language, transforming how developers build data pipelines, query real-time analytics, and manage infrastructure.
Microsoft introduces Agent Mode and Office Agent capabilities in Microsoft 365 Copilot, fundamentally shifting from simple AI assistance to sophisticated multi-step task orchestration.
The promise of autonomous development has haunted our industry for years. The latest evolution of Claude Code, powered by Sonnet 4.5, represents something fundamentally different – not because it claims to be revolutionary, but because it actually addresses the practical challenges developers face when attempting to delegate meaningful work to AI systems.
