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Microsoft Build 2026 produced two announcements that, read together, describe something more interesting than the usual conference launch cadence: a plausible scenario in which enterprise AI stack decisions made in the next 12 months could become significantly harder to reverse. The operative word is "could". Several pieces of the announced architecture are not fully shipping yet. But the direction is clear. The News Microsoft delivered two related announcements at Build 2026. The first came from Jay Parikh , EVP of CoreAI: the model is not the differentiator ; the system governing it is. Microsoft's answer is a six-step loop. Agents are built in GitHub, contextualized with Microsoft IQ, which grounds them in enterprise data from Microsoft 365, core business systems, knowledge bases, and the web, run in Foundry, governed via Agent 365, and continuously improved through a hill-climbing optimization cycle. Agent 365, combined with Entra, Purview, and Defender, catalogue...

The contemporary B2B sales landscape is currently drowning in its own engineering achievements. For the past decade, the holy grail of outbound sales development was scale: how many touches could an automated sequence tool squeeze out of a Sales Development Representative (SDR) per day? The answer was always "more". With the mainstream infiltration of generative artificial intelligence and LLMs, the marginal cost of creating more text collapsed to zero, well, almost. Predictably, this did not produce a renaissance of enlightened business communication; it merely triggered an existential crisis in the recipients’ mailboxes. TL;DR If you want to watch the full CRMKonvo, please go ahead here (optimized for smartphones) or here (optimized for tablets/computers). Else, be my guest and continue to read. Or do both … When any entry-level sales rep can prompt a system to instantly parse a prospect's digital footprint and draft a customized icebreaker, personalization is no mo...