State of AI Report 2026 | AI Research, Industry and Policy

Three of our nine predictions for the next 12 months are: An agent halves its failure rate on new tasks after a month of customer work, without a model upgrade. This will be a practical measure of continual learning. An autonomous AI team beats human-led model...

Enterprise AI Needs A Governed Context Layer, Not Just Data

Microsoft is steadily repositioning Fabric from a unified analytics platform into a governed context layer for enterprise AI. An agent answering a revenue question needs to know which measure applies, how customers and transactions relate, and what information it may...