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Copilot faces existential crisis: internal memo admits failure with 4.5% paid adoption and 39% enterprise share drop, leading to feature cuts (Notepad, Photos, Snipping Tool) under Jacob Andreou and shift to own MAI models for Excel/Word to cut costs. Service Agent GA with 70+ MCP tools, Claude Sonnet 5 GA in M365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot adds Kimi K2.7 Code. Gong MCP partnership. Microsoft merges enterprise/consumer chatbots under Andreou. Claude GA in Foundry but European enterprises cannot deploy due to data residency gap. Azure Skills for AI coding agents launched. GitHub Copilot CLI removes PAT dependency. VS Code agent architecture documentation published. Power Platform roundup includes voice agents guide, Copilot CLI for Power Apps, Dataverse skills. Copilot Studio enables agentic workflows. New: Microsoft adds a mid-meeting toggle in Teams to disable Copilot AI (user revolt response) – now rolling out. New: Azure AI Foundry agent session management documentation published. New: Copilot Cowork and Microsoft Scout compared. New: Dynamics 365 Finance release plan for April–September 2026 includes MCP for ERP Analytics. New: Microsoft 365 price hike bundles Copilot (43% increase, unified Copilot app plan). New: Microsoft strikes AI news deal with Nine Entertainment in Australia. New: Agent 365 vs TrueFoundry comparison published. New: Agentic AI ROI cases show 171% average ROI across six Microsoft-based deployments. New: Microsoft open-sources APM (Agent Package Manager). New: No Code, No Tools guide for Power BI/Fabric documentation. New: Microsoft announces MXC (Microsoft eXtensible Control) – policy-driven containment layer for AI agents. New: Shared and delegated mailboxes now supported in Copilot Chat for Outlook. New: Microsoft Foundry June 2026 roundup: Claude GA, autopilot agents with Entra ID, Toolboxes expansion, Agent Optimizer, Memory TTL, OpenEnv standard, Local on Azure Local, Voice API updates, SDK convergence. New: Teams built-in agent governance rolling out July 2026. New: Critical 'GitLost' vulnerability disclosed – prompt injection in GitHub Agentic Workflows can leak private repositories. New: Visual Studio June update adds token-based Copilot billing tracking, MCP trust validation, C++ modernization agent GA. New: Microsoft shifting to own MAI models for Excel/Word to cut costs, reducing reliance on OpenAI/Anthropic. New: Offboarding workflows for Loop and Copilot Pages now documented. New: Integrate existing agent in Copilot Studio (AB-620 exam deep-dive). New: CHANGELOG for AI Agents for Beginners course migrates to Responses API. New: Copilot Studio error: Developer environments don't support proactive Teams messages. New: Sync M365 Message Center to SharePoint Lists using Power Automate. New: Cloud Rebuild for Windows 11 recovery now in testing. New: Microsoft 365 E7 and the Rise of AI Agents – LevelBlue article reframes AI agents as new identities requiring governance, reinforcing least privilege and monitoring. Newly read: Microsoft 365 Copilot Pricing: 2026 Buyer's Guide – practical pricing breakdown for IT leaders. Newly read: Two Microsoft 365 Copilot Changes That Just Make Sense – thread persistence and memory management improvements. Newly read: Copilot Studio new experience: end-user credential tools bug in Teams – missing Entra Agent ID connector permissions. Newly read: Dynamics Certs Went All-In on AI – legacy certs retired, AB series launched, signaling agent-first future. Newly read: Controlling Automatic Microsoft Teams Environment Creation – governance gap with workaround. Newly read: Copilot Studio Enterprise Agent Development 2026 – licensing, use cases, cost model, governance controls. New: Hugging Face models now deployable on Foundry Managed Compute with enterprise guardrails – announced at Build, bridging open-source flexibility with Azure governance. New: Windows 11 storage bug fix (KB5095093) rolling out via optional June 2026 update – resolves Capability Access Manager WAL file consuming up to 500GB.