Oracle AI Workspace will put ChatGPT in front of Oracle’s business applications and data, letting employees request information and approved actions in one place. The integrations cover Fusion Applications, NetSuite, Oracle AI Database, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), while retaining organizational permissions and approvals. The announcement expands Oracle and OpenAI’s partnership from cloud infrastructure into enterprise software.

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Microsoft’s new Teams federation controls can help organizations restrict unwanted external chats, but they’re off by default. That matters as a threat report found IT-support impersonation attempts in about 30% of the organizations it monitored—a figure that does not show how common the attacks are across all Teams tenants.

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Microsoft plans to add automatic replies based on inbox rules and saved templates to New Outlook for Windows and Outlook on the web in December 2026. Users will be able to send preset responses when incoming messages meet conditions such as sender or other rule criteria. The feature fills a gap with Outlook Classic, though Microsoft has not detailed how it will be configured.

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Oracle is adding 25 prebuilt AI agent applications to Oracle Fusion Cloud, spanning ERP, HCM, supply chain, and customer experience. Fusion Companion can route a business goal to the right workflows and agents, while Oracle is placing controls closer to the database to limit what those agents can access and do.

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Microsoft is separating Copilot interactions from Teams retention policies and adding Purview retention support for Copilot memory. That means tenants with older policies covering both Teams chats and Copilot prompts and responses will need a dedicated policy for “Microsoft Copilot experiences.” The interaction-policy change is scheduled to roll out from late October through mid-November 2026.

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Google’s privacy policy now allows Gmail, Drive, and Photos data to inform personalized ads when users connect those services to other Google tools. The exception, effective October 16, applies to features such as Gemini’s Personal Intelligence and AI Mode in Search. Google says ads won’t be based directly on inboxes or photo libraries, but information shared with those tools may shape ad personalization.

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Apollo finds revenue per employee among the Magnificent Seven climbing from about $550,000 in 2022 to nearly $800,000 in 2026, with profit margins rising too; the other 493 S&P 500 companies have barely budged.

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Denmark has ended a 38-employee pilot of Collabora as an alternative to Microsoft Office, and the trial will not resume. The decision followed an election, leaving the government without a formal comparison of the two office suites. Reports of formatting problems had surfaced during the test.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has floated an annual fee of about $2,000 per GPU for software that runs AI agents in “AI factories.” The price is not confirmed, and Nvidia has not identified which products it would include or when it could take effect. The proposal also leaves open how it would fit alongside Nvidia AI Enterprise, listed at $4,500 per GPU for a one-year subscription.

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The GitHub app for Microsoft Teams brings repository notifications into chats and channels. Now, teams can reply to an issue or pull request notification, mention GitHub, and ask Copilot to investigate the work and prepare a code change for review—all without leaving the conversation.

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The point of Zoom’s Unified Context Layer is to give AI business context it can use to help an individual participant during a conversation—not just transcribe what was said. In principle, an assistant could use that context to surface a relevant answer or suggestion. Zoom says its planned Live Meeting AI Agent will provide proactive help, including finding answers and keeping meetings on track, but hasn’t specified whether its suggestions will be private to one participant or how they will appear.

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Google Sheets now creates box-and-whisker charts directly from numeric data, adding a quick way to visualize distributions without helper formulas. The cloud-based spreadsheet also preserves these charts when importing from or exporting to Excel.

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New Outlook for Windows is Microsoft’s email client for managing messages on Windows PCs. Microsoft is rolling out its All Accounts view, a Unified Inbox that lets users handle email from several connected accounts in one place. Copilot search is also arriving, but it currently focuses on the primary account.

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Copilot Prioritize uses AI to rank Outlook emails so users can focus on messages that need attention. Microsoft now says its removal, starting October 26, 2026, is expected to continue through the end of March 2027—not just mid-November as an earlier timeline indicated. The feature will disappear from all Outlook clients.

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Microsoft Teams can now start up to 20% faster on hardware-constrained PCs with Efficiency Mode, while its Android app is 40% more responsive than it was a year ago. The mode turns on by default on devices with older processors and 8 GB of RAM or less, and users can also switch it on or off in settings.

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Microsoft says admins can restore Exchange Online apps disrupted by EWS blocking by temporarily re-enabling the API, but that workaround ends in April 2027. The change follows the EWS app allow-list enforcement; Microsoft’s longer-term advice is to update affected apps to use Microsoft Graph instead.

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A scheduled Azure Automation runbook can preserve mail flow rule report data beyond Exchange Online’s 10-day limit, building a weekly history of suppressed messages by spam domain. It stores the accumulated counts in a CSV file in SharePoint Online, where admins can analyze them with Power BI or other tools. The approach uses managed identities and Microsoft Graph API requests to work around Graph SDK file cmdlets that fail in Azure Automation.

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The guests are Arvind Krishna, chairman, president and CEO of IBM, and Nikesh Arora, chairman and CEO of cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks. On the All-In Podcast, they discuss the approaching quantum threat to encryption, the trade-offs between frontier and open-weight AI models, and AI’s impact on cybersecurity. Krishna urges organizations to begin moving toward post-quantum cryptography before quantum computers can break widely used encryption. Arora and Krishna also consider how AI could reshape software businesses, security practices, and competition.

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Despite Microsoft’s push toward the Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), Enterprise Agreement (EA) renewals remain a major sales focus. Customers may face less experienced account teams incentivized to sell Microsoft 365 E5, E7, and Copilot, making renewals harder to negotiate. Starting early, documenting past concessions, and escalating beyond the account team can help protect your organization’s position.

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