Microsoft is introducing new capabilities aimed at showing organizations whether artificial intelligence agents deliver measurable value while expanding how Copilot can create and analyze surveys.
Research released around the recent Black Hat USA 2026 conference suggests that artificial intelligence is increasing the speed and scale of cybersecurity activity without replacing the attack methods defenders already face.
Microsoft is encouraging organizations to expand threat-modeling exercises to uncover cryptographic dependencies that could leave applications and data vulnerable to future quantum computing attacks.
The vast majority of education organizations (98%) expect their AI infrastructure budgets to either increase or hold steady over the next year, according to a recent report from cloud storage provider Wasabi.