Microsoft is expanding its ambitions for workplace AI with the general availability of Copilot Cowork, an agentic system designed to handle complex tasks from start to finish rather than simply offering suggestions. After spending three months in Microsoft’s Frontier preview program, the company says Copilot Cowork is already used by more than half of the…
Agentic AI , Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning , Identity & Access Management Hitachi Digital Services CTO Balasubramanian on Governing AI at Scale Jennifer Lawinski • June 15, 2026 Prem Balasubramanian, CTO and head of AI, Hitachi Digital Services As artificial intelligence evolves from a productivity tool into a system capable of making…
OpenAI is reportedly preparing one of the biggest changes to ChatGPT since its launch, with a new design focused on AI agents and coding capabilities rather than conventional chat-based interactions. According to a report by the Financial Times, the redesigned platform could arrive within the coming weeks as OpenAI seeks to expand ChatGPT’s role from…
Tencent Cloud today unveiled a suite of productivity agent tools at the Tencent Cloud AI Industry Application Conference in Beijing. The new suite offers differentiated and personalized solutions for AI agent development and deployment, addressing the growing demand from individuals and enterprises to adopt AI across more than 20 vertical scenarios. For individual users, Tencent…
In the past six months, the global conversation around AI agents has been dominated by a familiar geography: Silicon Valley. From autonomous coding copilots to workflow orchestration tools, North American players have been racing to define what the “agentic future” of work looks like—often through increasingly complex, developer-first systems. While on May 28, a different…
Heathrow’s AI assistant handles traveler inquiries via WhatsApp, reducing the need for phone calls. Heathrow leveraged its longtime partnership with Salesforce to create the tool, called Hallie. Hallie is set to expand to the airport’s website and app later this year. Nearly 85 million travelers passed through Heathrow Airport in 2025. Amid the hustle and…
AirOps, the business name of Rivington Labs Inc., today introduced Quill, an artificial intelligence agent designed to help brands maintain visibility in generative AI search engines by continuously monitoring, updating and creating content. The San Francisco-based startup is building its business on the broader shift from traditional search engine optimization to what is increasingly being…
eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More Quick vibes check: a 78-year-old marketing exec who had never written code shipped a working robotics app this week. That stat comes from Clement Delangue’s thread on Hugging Face’s Reachy Mini app store,…
Google has officially closed the book on Project Mariner, the experimental AI agent designed to navigate the web just like a human. After a relatively short 17-month journey, the project’s landing page now carries a farewell message confirming the tool shutdown. What was Google’s Project Mariner? If you didn’t get a chance to test it,…
Adobe has introduced AI-powered PDF tools, a productivity agent, podcast creation features and interactive sharing through Acrobat, aiming to help creators and businesses generate, manage and …
