Microsoft Agentic AI Governance Tools

Hi everyone,

Microsoft has launched Agent 365, a centralized platform for managing AI agents securely, giving organizations control over identity, compliance, and operational oversight while providing insight into agent activity and governance across apps and cloud environments.

Google is rolling out Gemini 3 with generative interfaces and a Gemini Agent, bringing smarter multimodal reasoning, interactive layouts, and adaptive task orchestration across apps, offering a glimpse into more proactive AI assistants.

Windows is also evolving, adding new tools to securely run and manage AI agents, giving developers and IT teams more control across local and cloud environments with governance, agent workspaces, and developer-friendly APIs.

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• 🤿Deep Dive: Agent 365 for AI governance from Microsoft

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• 🖼️AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art

• 🤿Deep Dive: Gemini 3 and Gemini Agent bring adaptive AI interfaces

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• 🤿Deep Dive: Microsoft updates Windows to manage AI agents

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Microsoft Launches Agent 365 for Enterprise AI Governance

Intelligence: Microsoft introduced Agent 365 as a unified control system to manage AI agents using the same identity, security, and compliance tools organizations already trust.

• IDC projects 1.3 billion agents by 2028, and Microsoft’s strategy is to manage agents like people using existing infrastructure instead of building new systems.

• Agent 365 provides centralized visibility with telemetry, dashboards, and alerts so IT teams can monitor all agents in use, in development, or incoming.

• Governance includes five pillars - Registry, Access Control, Visualization, Interoperability, and Security, with features like Entra-backed agent inventory, policy templates, and an Agent Store for safe discovery.

• Insight tools offer maps of agent resource connections, role-based reporting, ROI tracking, task adherence, and audit readiness with logging, e-discovery, and retention.

• Agents can access Microsoft 365 apps and business data with Work IQ context, and developers can build across Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, Agent Framework, and the Agent 365 SDK, with support for Adobe, Databricks, NVIDIA, SAP, ServiceNow, Workday, and open-source agents from Anthropic, LangChain, OpenAI, Perplexity, and others.

• Security combines Microsoft Defender and Entra for real-time protection, while Purview manages sensitive data risks. Organizations can start in the Microsoft 365 admin center via the Frontier early access program.

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Google Unveils Gemini 3, Generative Interfaces, and Gemini Agent

Intelligence: Google is rolling out a major Gemini app update featuring the Gemini 3 model, new generative interfaces, and a Gemini Agent for orchestrating complex tasks, with phased access starting today.

• Gemini 3 improves reasoning, multimodal understanding, coding, and formatting, launching globally with a Thinking mode. Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra users retain higher limits, and U.S. college students get a free year of Google AI Pro.

• The app introduces a cleaner layout, easier chat starts, a My Stuff folder for saved content, and a stronger shopping experience powered by the Shopping Graph with over 50 billion listings.

• Generative interfaces debut with visual layout and dynamic view, turning responses into interactive magazine-style pages or real-time custom interfaces, such as a three-day Rome itinerary or a Van Gogh gallery guide.

• Gemini Agent handles multi-step tasks in Gmail, Calendar, and the web, including inbox cleanup, to-do prioritization, reply drafting, and budget-based booking, while always seeking confirmation for key actions and allowing user control.

• The agent draws on Gemini 3 and Project Mariner, using tools like Deep Research, Canvas, Workspace connections, and live browsing. It is now available on the web for Google AI Ultra users in the U.S., with a broader rollout to follow.

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Microsoft Advances Windows as a Secure Platform for AI Agents

Intelligence: Microsoft is enhancing Windows with new capabilities to support the secure deployment of enterprise-grade AI agents across local and cloud environments.

• Native MCP support arrives with an on-device registry for discovering agent connectors and an MCP proxy that enforces authentication, authorization, and auditing.

• Built-in agent connectors for File Explorer and System Settings enter public preview, enabling file management and natural language search on Copilot Plus PCs, along with system adjustments under user control.

• Agent Workspace enters private preview as a policy-controlled desktop for agents, and Windows 365 for Agents brings the same model to Cloud PCs with APIs for provisioning and managed execution.

• Governance features include Agent ID for auditable actions, distinct agent accounts, least privilege defaults, trusted signing, mandatory consent prompts, and IT controls via Intune, CSP, GPO, and event logs, with more coming in 2026.

• Microsoft Foundry adds public preview APIs for Video Super Resolution, Stable Diffusion XL, and app content search, while Windows ML enables local execution across CPU, GPU, and NPU with support from AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and Qualcomm.

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