Microsoft 365 Copilot’s latest release notes push the Work IQ layer closer to a real agent platform: there is now a unified REST endpoint for agents/workflows, and PowerPoint agent mode can build decks from Work IQ, reference Teams meetings/chats, reuse content/style from existing presentations, and cite web sources while drafting slides. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/copilot/release-notes
Anthropic published a sharp design note on emerging multi-agent systems: agents can cooperate effectively when they are treated as tools with well-defined inputs/outputs, but Anthropic argues the field is still early and long-lived peer-like agent collaboration remains fragile. HN is already picking at the implications. Sources: https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49316271
OpenAI’s enterprise signals update gives one of the clearest adoption metrics in the space right now: as of June, agentic AI use made up 64% of combined Codex and ChatGPT output tokens among enterprise customers, and frontier firms generated 8.3x the output tokens per active user versus typical firms. Sources: https://openai.com/index/how-enterprises-put-ai-to-work/ ; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49281467