Meta is opening its Muse AI agent to small businesses, connecting it to tools such as Shopify, QuickBooks, Slack, and Zoom. The rollout gives Muse access to business software and Meta account data, while paid plans offer more usage than the free tier.

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Oracle’s new Fusion Claw runtime lets Fusion applications handle extended business tasks, including revising staffing plans and reconciling accounting entries, with the option to execute approved changes. Oracle says customers can set permissions and approval rules, while an “Outcome Receipt” records the policies and actions behind each completed task.

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Meta is launching the Meta Enterprise Platform to sell its AI tools to businesses, with former MongoDB CEO CJ Desai leading the new unit. Desai will report to Mark Zuckerberg; MongoDB shares fell more than 18% after his departure, while Meta’s stock slipped about 4%.

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Microsoft is extending Fabric app development to Power BI Pro and Premium Per User customers, giving them access to Fabric Apps and a small Fabric database at no additional cost. The upcoming preview pairs the tools with coding agents, potentially letting business users turn analytics workflows into apps without starting from scratch.

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Microsoft is expanding Microsoft Fabric with a preview Database Hub for managing multiple database types, new observability tools, and agents that can help investigate operational issues. Announced at FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona, the updates also bring Fabric business context into Copilot and add new ways to build AI-powered applications.

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Microsoft has confirmed a Microsoft Word bug that can send PDFs created from documents on network shares or mapped drives to a hidden Windows cache folder instead of the selected location. The files may also receive random names, making them appear to have vanished.

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Meta’s Muse has reached No. 1 on the U.S. Apple App Store’s free-app chart, intensifying the debate over Meta’s AI comeback and the rise of consumer AI agents. Alex Kantrowitz and Ranjan Roy discuss whether Muse’s early momentum signals a shift away from frontier models toward practical products built around integrations, tool use, and trust. They also examine dopamine sites, which simulate online shopping for the pleasure of browsing rather than receiving products.

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Microsoft 365 Business with Copilot is Microsoft's latest packaging of its productivity cloud for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs): the AI assistant Microsoft 365 Copilot is no longer sold only as a separate add-on but is built directly into the Business Standard and Business Premium subscriptions. The two new plans, Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot and Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot, have been generally available since July 1, 2026. This article explains what the bundles contain, what they cost, how Copilot accesses your business data, and which limitations you should know about.

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Microsoft’s Copilot super app will combine a monthly subscription with usage-based charges for advanced AI, including Cowork, Code, and Autopilot. The model adds a financial control problem to the unified work hub Microsoft recently unveiled with Autopilot and Office inside Copilot.

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Meta has formally launched Meta Enterprise Platform, turning its previously announced enterprise AI unit created to monetize its massive infrastructure investment into a named business. The platform will package Meta’s models, agents, infrastructure, and developer tools for organizations competing with Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic.

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Meta is creating a dedicated enterprise AI business as it seeks returns from more than $100 billion in planned infrastructure spending this year. The new unit will package Muse, coding tools, AI models, and business agents, with former MongoDB CEO Chirantan “CJ” Desai leading it under CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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Microsoft has confirmed that an error deleted data from some nonprofit Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscriptions before their retention periods ended. The company says recovery has failed and it cannot determine which files were deleted—or whether data was lost in every affected tenant.

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A new Exchange administrator deleted roughly 300 GB of transaction logs after an IT director told him they were safe to remove. The decision crashed a centralized email system serving a 24/7 business, forcing an emergency weekend recovery. Such incidents rarely attract media attention when human administrators are responsible, which can skew public opinion in favor of human decision-making over AI.

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New Outlook will gain an optional spell check that interrupts sending when Microsoft detects possible spelling errors. The feature is scheduled to begin rolling out in October 2026, with wider availability expected by mid-December.

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Microsoft is defending Copilot after a viral “does anyone use Copilot?” post, pointing to more than 30 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats. The debate comes as Microsoft expands the product into a broader work platform with Chat, Cowork, Code, Office, and Autopilot in one app, as Microsoft’s Copilot super app takes shape.

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Microsoft has paused KB5002907 after confirming that the optional Microsoft 365 Apps repair update could deactivate valid Office installations—and in some cases remove the apps entirely. The update follows reports that Office 2016 and 2019 licenses were suddenly deactivated, with affected users now receiving a manual recovery procedure.

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Microsoft is consolidating consumer Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Cowork, coding tools, and long-running agents in one redesigned Copilot super app. Its three-tab interface also brings full Word, Excel, and PowerPoint experiences into Copilot, while the most autonomous features will carry additional usage-based charges.

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Microsoft is moving Dataverse closer to Microsoft 365 Copilot, potentially giving agents native access to business records alongside email, chats, and files. The broader strategy also points toward “headless Office,” where Copilot becomes the main interface while Outlook, SharePoint, and Dynamics increasingly operate as back-end services.

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Microsoft will retire the Windows 11 Microsoft 365 companion apps People, Files, and Calendar on December 16, 2026—but they will not uninstall themselves. After Microsoft stopped updates and automatic installations, users and administrators must remove existing copies and prevent them from being redeployed.

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