Sprouts.ai, a US-based artificial intelligence startup founded in 2023, has secured $9 million in pre-Series A funding led by True Global Ventures and Accel, bringing its total raised to $14 million. The company builds AI-powered Revenue Agents that autonomously handle B2B sales tasks — including prospecting, contact enrichment, and multi-channel outreach — integrating with platforms such as Salesforce, Microsoft […]
Many years ago, Microsoft created a handy hub for its Office suite: type office.com into your browser, and you’d see a web page where you could launch the various Office apps — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and so on — or access recently used documents in those apps. This hub’s appearance changed a bit over time as the Office suite was rebranded as Office 365 and then Microsoft 365, but it still served as a launch pad for your M365 files and apps.
Now, however, Microsoft has deeply integrated its Copilot generative AI assistant throughout Microsoft 365, and the hub has been transformed. Currently called the M365 Copilot app, the page puts the Copilot Chat interface front and center. You can still get to your M365 files or apps by clicking Search or Apps in the sidebar on the left, but the main purpose of the hub these days is to let you chat with Copilot.
The old Microsoft Office hub has been taken over by Copilot Chat.
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With the rollout of new Word, Excel, and Pow
Firefox chief Ajit Varma explains how Mozilla is betting on privacy, optional AI tools, and its nonprofit structure to compete against browsers from Google, Apple, and Microsoft.
A self-replicating worm that hijacks GitHub Actions pipelines to publish malicious npm packages has struck again, compromising AntV, echarts-for-react, and Microsoft’s durabletask SDK. Mini Shai-Hulud Exploits GitHub Actions to Hit 16 Million Weekly Downloads The Mini Shai-Hulud campaign, attributed to the threat group Team PCP, does not work the way most supply chain attacks do […]
In 2026, enterprise agentic AI has moved from pilot budgets to production commitments. Salesforce is closing Agentforce deals at 29,000 since launch with $800M ARR. Microsoft Copilot Studio has 160,000 organizations running 400,000+ custom agents. ServiceNow has restructured its entire commercial model around autonomous AI tiers. The question is no longer whether to deploy — […]
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A California jury of nine delivered a unanimous verdict against Elon Musk’s lawsuit targeting OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft, finding that any harms Musk may have suffered predated the legal deadlines for filing his claims. The verdict ends one of the most high-profile legal challenges in AI history and removes a significant restructuring […]
“Something didn’t go as planned. Undoing changes.” That’s all the clue some Windows 11 users will get when Microsoft’s May Security Update fails to install because of insufficient free space on the EFI System Partition (ESP), leaving their systems unprotected by the dozens of patches it contained.
This issue affects devices with limited free space available — typically 10MB or less — on the ESP. “On affected devices, the installation might proceed through the initial phases but fail during the reboot phase at approximately 35-36% completion,” Microsoft said in an advisory. It recommended changing a Windows registry setting to force the update, or to roll back changes and wait for a future update to fix the problem.
Consultants said it was a potentially serious issue given the unexpected exposure and the time the destined-to-fail patch takes to fail to install.
This is the kind of failure that keeps IT leaders up at night, said cybersecurity consultant Brian Levine, who serves as execut
For years, enterprise data conversations centered on platforms. Which warehouse? Which lakehouse? Which cloud? In my recent Forbes pieces, “Beyond The Enterprise Data Platform: Why Ecosystems Win” and “How ERP Data Fits Into The Enterprise Data Ecosystem,” I argued that the more important question is no longer which platform wins. It is how the enterprise designs the ecosystem around data, applications, workflows, and governance.
That question is becoming more urgent because AI agents are starting to act on enterprise data, not just analyze it. They are recommending actions, triggering workflows, engaging customers, and influencing decisions at a speed where manual review cannot be the only control. That changes the role of data management. Clean, governed, and trusted data is no longer a back-office requirement. It determines whether artificial intelligence can operate within the business without creating more risk than value.
That is the lens for Informatica World 2026. The event sho
