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🎖️ Top News

• Microsoft launches agent builder for 365 Copilot: automate tasks across Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.

  
  

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• OpenAI rolls out lightweight deep research model, expanding access to Free, Plus, Team, and Pro users.
  
  

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What's New

Microsoft has launched two new agents—Researcher and Analyst—inside Microsoft 365 Copilot, available through its Frontier Program. These agents use OpenAI’s reasoning models to handle enterprise research and analytics tasks. This marks a shift toward embedded agent workflows within standard productivity tools.

Custom agent creation with Copilot Studio

You can build task-based agents using a graphical interface.

• Copilot Studio supports OpenAPI plugin integration for internal REST endpoints.
  
  

• Agent Store provides third-party agents from Jira, Miro, and Monday.com
  
  

• Define agent goals, configure logic flows, and connect to internal APIs and tools.
  
  

• Add memory, set triggers, and manage conditional steps with a low-code interface.
  
  

• Publish agents to the new Copilot Agent Store, launching with enterprise deployment support.
  
  

• Agents run within Microsoft’s orchestration framework
  
  

• All features operate within the existing Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing tier.
  
  

Multi-app agents with Microsoft Graph data

Copilot Researcher and Copilot Analyst work across Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.

• Accept multi-turn goals like summarization, analysis, or trend detection.
  
  

• Access enterprise documents and emails using real-time Microsoft Graph data.
  
  

• Run reasoning steps with memory and planning using orchestrated GPT-4-turbo.
  
  

• Use grounding for document-aware output within each app.
  
  

Copilot Notebooks
Notebooks let you structure custom knowledge bases across sources for targeted reasoning.

• You can include files, chats, links, meeting transcripts, and notes
  
  

• Copilot automatically updates outputs as inputs evolve
  
  

• You can export a summary as an audio overview with two AI-generated hosts
  
  

• Notebook grounding keeps Copilot focused on relevant project content

Copilot Search 
The new search engine connects Microsoft and external data with context-aware answers.

• Search spans ServiceNow, Slack, Confluence, Jira, Google Drive, and M365 apps
  
  

• Results include Copilot answers and linked artifacts
  
  

• Microsoft uses a hybrid semantic-lexical index to improve retrieval accuracy
  
  

• Search supports permissioned, tenant-scoped access
  
  

Work Trend Index
Microsoft surveyed 31,000 professionals to measure AI’s role in workplace transformation.

• 71% of workers at AI-using firms say their company is thriving
  
  

• 55% report handling more workload vs 20% globally
  
  

• 83% of leaders say AI helps with strategic task adoption
  
  

• Report defines "Frontier Firms" as AI-integrated, agent-led organizations

Availability and Access

Microsoft is rolling out these features through phased access under the Frontier Program.

• Researcher and Analyst agents are not yet generally available
  
  

• Access currently limited to select enterprise customers in private preview
  
  

• Agent Store and Copilot Studio support public deployment of custom agents
  
  

• Notebook and Search features are available within supported Microsoft 365 enterprise plans
  
  

Community Feedback

Eric van Dam

"I've got Copilot for a few months now integrated in my Office but i'm using grok to come up with the prompts to properly use it, the learning curve is something I really struggle with because Copilot just doesn't seem to understand what I want it to do.. Do you recognise this, solution?"

Ruizhe Zhao
"Incredible to see Copilot redefining productivity at scale. Deep integration of AI into daily workflows mirrors a broader industry shift—from passive tools to truly intelligent systems. The future of work is not just augmented, it's transformed."

Mr Rowe
"How about we get create PowerPoint? That is the one feature I want. I have to pay gamma monthly for this now and have copilot, which is totally unusable to any value in PowerPoint."

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