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Microsoft Agent 365: Governance for AI Agents
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-05-07As organizations move from experimenting with AI assistants to deploying autonomous and semi‑autonomous agents, a new challenge emerges: governing what those agents actually do at runtime.This isn’t about who built an agent—it’s about what it can access, what actions it can take, and whether it’s operating safely inside the enterprise. That’s the problem Microsoft Agent… -
Small Local Models: Why Tiny AI Is Having a Big Moment
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-05-06The narrative around artificial intelligence has long been dominated by bigger equals better. Models with trillions of parameters, trained on internet-scale datasets, powered by massive GPU clusters—these were the benchmarks of progress. But something interesting is happening at the other end of the spectrum. Small models—measured in billions, not trillions of parameters—are proving they can… -
Intelligence Economy Shift: From Dread and Dreams to Practical Reality
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-05-04In the fast-moving world of artificial intelligence, the narrative is shifting. We are moving away from a speculative era shaped by fears of total job replacement and existential risk, and into a more pragmatic phase where the real costs, physical constraints, and human complexities of AI are coming into focus. The End of the AI… -
ServiceNow AI Control Tower Overview
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-05-02ServiceNow AI Control Tower is a centralized governance and oversight platform designed to give enterprises visibility, control, and accountability over AI systems across their organization. Launched at Knowledge 2025, it addresses a critical challenge facing large enterprises: the inability to see, manage, and govern the rapidly expanding fleet of AI agents and models running throughout… -
AI Governance & Orchestration Vendors (May 2026)
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-05-02The AI orchestration market is projected to grow from $11.02 billion in 2025 to $30.23 billion by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate of 22.3%. This rapid growth is attracting investment from both specialized AI companies and large platform vendors, creating a crowded and evolving competitive field. Please see companion blog posts on Microsoft… -
The Future of Work: Microsoft Copilot Cowork
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-05-01It is funny how things change… a couple of days ago I posted about: Microsoft Copilot Growing Up – How to remove Copilot from your Device , and today… At a recent showcase in Sydney, Microsoft unveiled a glimpse into the next evolution of productivity: Agentic AI. This isn’t just about a chatbot answering questions;… -
Microsoft Copilot Growing Up
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-04-29My own relationship with Microsoft Copilot started with high hopes, followed by the “trough of disillusionment.” Like many, I grudgingly launched it yesterday only because I needed to handle confidential data within our enterprise security layer. I went through my standard procedure to manually override the default—and then I saw it: Claude Opus in the… -
Microsoft Enables Copilot App Removal
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-04-28For the past year, Microsoft Copilot has felt like the uninvited guest that wouldn’t leave. Forced onto taskbars and integrated into nearly every corner of Windows 11, the AI assistant was met with mixed reviews—and significant pushback from enterprise IT departments concerned about data privacy and “AI bloat.” Following the April 2026 Patch Tuesday update,… -
NVIDIA DGX Systems and Microsoft Intune
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-04-27As enterprises accelerate their investments in AI, NVIDIA DGX systems have become the backbone of many high‑performance computing and machine learning environments. These platforms deliver enormous GPU density and performance, enabling everything from model training to large‑scale inference. At the same time, IT organizations are standardizing on Microsoft Intune to manage and secure endpoints through… -
AI: Don’t Just Chat — Practical Roadmap
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-04-22For the last few months, I’ve been working on a new book series called AI: Don’t Just Chat. I wrote it because the pace of AI has become exhausting for a lot of people. The tools change constantly. The advice shifts. What worked a few months ago can already feel outdated. Even people who are deep… -
Standardizing on New Outlook for Windows
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-04-22Standardizing on New Outlook for Windows (and Removing Outlook Classic) As organizations modernize their Windows 11 environments, Outlook often becomes a source of confusion. Much of that confusion comes from assuming Outlook is part of Windows itself. In reality, Outlook behavior on Windows 11 depends heavily on what is installed after the operating system—particularly Microsoft… -
Agent Zero FAISS Memory Error: What It Means, What to Keep, and What to Reset
By Jorge Pereira • 2026-04-21To learn more about Local AI topics, check out related posts in the Local AI Series If you are using Agent Zero and suddenly see this error, you are not alone: “`text ValueError: Could not find document for id 6oqX1vwBxV, got ID 6oqX1vwBxV not found. “` This problem can show up repeatedly, sometimes with different document…
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