Curated AI news from the last 24 hours — models, agents, enterprise, and developer tools.
Microsoft overhauled Copilot into three components: Home, which integrates Word, Excel and PowerPoint natively into the chat interface; Code, which lets non-technical employees build apps and automations with natural language via GitHub Copilot technology; and Autopilot, which runs persistent background agents. The company calls it the biggest update to Copilot to date.
blogs.microsoft.com ↗xAI released Grok 4.7, its most capable model yet for coding and agentic knowledge work, featuring a 500k-token context window with text and image inputs. xAI says the model works longer on difficult tasks, checks its own work more carefully, and ships with its best-calibrated safeguards to date.
x.ai ↗Rockwell Automation deployed AI trained on decades of institutional shop-floor knowledge to help factory workers diagnose and fix equipment issues faster. The case study details how the manufacturer paired its domain expertise with AI tooling to reduce downtime and speed up troubleshooting on the production line.
news.microsoft.com ↗Google is piloting a direct checkout flow for select Indian shoppers, showing a "Buy" button on Flipkart product listings inside Gemini and Google's AI Mode that leads straight to a Flipkart checkout. The test is limited to a small set of users and product categories including smartphones and electronics, signaling a push from AI shopping search toward completed transactions.
techcrunch.com ↗Cursor launched two new bots for Teams and Enterprise plans: Rollouts, which watches deployments as they go out and reports per-environment health, and Security Review, which flags exploitable bugs on every pull request. Both extend Cursor's agent tooling beyond code generation into deployment and security monitoring.
cursor.com ↗Cursor detailed changes to its agent harness that cut token costs by 7% without sacrificing output quality, including trimmed system prompts, dynamically loaded tools, better cache reuse, and compressed file reads. The improvements target longer-running agent sessions where token overhead compounds.
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