ZoomInfo Data Now Integrated With Microsoft Copilot Studio and Available in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Dynamics 365, Excel, and Word

ZoomInfo Data Now Integrated With Microsoft Copilot Studio and Available in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Dynamics 365, Excel, and Word

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Microsoft PowerToys will soon take full advantage of the same AI that powers Copilot+ PCs

Microsoft PowerToys will soon add on-device support for Phi Silica. Microsoft called that small language model (SLM) "small but mighty" when announcing it in 2024. Now, that model is available for Advanced Paste in the latest PowerToys preview.Advanced Paste is a utility in PowerToys that formats content from your clipboard. It supports several formats, including plain text, markdown, and JSON. You can also use it to extract text from images usi…

Copilot Studio: Major Update Unpacked

Copilot Studio overhaul unpacks Power Virtual Agents legacy, GitHub Copilot integration and new agent reasoning for devs Copilot Studio: The video explains a fundamental rebuild of Copilot Studio’s authoring experience and AI core, shifting from simple copilots to agents designed for complex, multi-step business work.It frames this update as a structural change, not just new features. Enhanced orchestration runtime: Microsoft added a new orches…

Copilot Readiness Isn’t About Licensing but Data Exposure

Most organizations still approach Copilot readiness from a procurement standpoint. They confirm the prerequisites, budget for the per-user add-on, assign licenses, and turn it on. And they assume that once they complete those steps, the hard part will be done. But the hard part hasn’t even started. That’s because Microsoft Copilot uses the access model each organization already has in place. Every file, message, and site it can reach is somethin…