Microsoft Copilot stories

B2B marketers say AI answer engines are reshaping buyer journeys, yet 81% admit brand visibility and positioning in AI remain a blind spot.

Teramind has unveiled an AI governance platform to monitor workplace AI tools and shadow agents, aiming to curb hidden data and security risks.

Q4 adds AI-focused optimisation to investor relations sites, helping listed firms surface verified disclosures in answer engines like ChatGPT.

Women in AI and adtech call for bias-free systems, fair leadership paths and cultures where merit, not gender, defines success.

Ataccama adds AI-driven data observability to its ONE platform, unifying pipeline monitoring, alerting and governance for regulated users.

AI assistants are reshaping B2B discovery, forcing CIOs, CTOs and CMOs to rebuild content for zero‑click, conversational buying journeys.

Multipole AI has launched AIMSOO, a free platform to help SMEs boost visibility in AI-driven search and chat interfaces.

Rubrik unveils Agent Cloud, promising real-time oversight, guardrails and rollback for risky AI agents embedded in enterprise systems.

Clarity launches Surfacd, a tool tracking how B2B brands are portrayed across AI search and assistants such as ChatGPT and Perplexity.

Optimizely secures Leader spot in Gartner's 2026 Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines, underscoring AI-led, warehouse-first strategy.

Canva integrates with ChatGPT to auto-apply Brand Kits, letting teams generate editable, on-brand designs directly from chat prompts.

OpenAI will levy a 4% fee on Shopify merchants for sales made via ChatGPT's integrated instant checkout from late January 2026.

Microsoft has unveiled its Maia 200 AI chip, claiming up to 10 PFLOPS FP4 performance to power large-scale inference and “reasoning AI”.

Accountants double down on everyday AI tools, as optimism stays high but scepticism, job fears and data security worries all intensify.

GWI launches Agent Spark, plugging its first-party audience data into ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot to ground AI marketing insight in reality.

Harmonic finds six genAI apps drive 92.6% of enterprise data exposure risk, with ChatGPT alone responsible for more than 70% of cases.

INVNT appoints James Nicholas Kinney as its first Global Chief AI Officer, tasked with scaling client-facing AI innovation, led from APAC.

AI's next wave in business will be sector-specific, process-led services as firms shift from generic tools to trusted, compliant platforms.

Anthropic donates its Model Context Protocol to the new Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation to standardise agentic AI tools.

Linux Foundation unites Anthropic, Block and OpenAI in new Agentic AI hub to standardise tools and protocols for autonomous AI agents.