Microsoft 365 Copilot's two new AI agents can speed up your workflow

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET Millions of working professionals rely on the Microsoft 365 suite of applications for their daily workflows. To speed up some of these everyday business processes, the company is now adding two new AI agents to its Microsoft 365 Copilot offering. Also: Google releases 'most intelligent' experimental Gemini 2.5 Pro - here's how to try it On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled its Researcher and Analyst deep-reasoning agents for work capable of conducting higher-level research and data analysis. Both agents leverage existing OpenAI models to deliver more advanced, personalized support tailored to the specific needs and workflows of Microsoft 365 users. Researcher The Researcher agent functions similarly to OpenAI's and Google's Deep Research features, sifting through robust amounts of information from the web and outputting that information into a neat report with sources. Moreover, Microsoft's Research Agent is powered by OpenAI's Deep Research model in combination wit ... Read full article.