Weekly newsletter
Every Tuesday, a short field note on what was approved, who owns the decision, and what evidence survives after deployment.
July 28, 2026
Microsoft's Agent 365 registry, generally available May 1, 2026, answers the question governance committees spent two years on: how many agents do we have. It does not answer how many of them carry an authorization record, a named owner, and a review date that has not lapsed, and no vendor release is coming for that number.
Read issue 20 →July 21, 2026
The EU deferred the AI Act's high-risk obligations by sixteen months on June 29, 2026. The obligations themselves did not change a word, and every agent deployed during the extension ships without the accountability records the original deadline was forcing into existence.
Read issue 19 →July 14, 2026
Microsoft enabled built-in Teams agents by default for Copilot-licensed users in July 2026 and moved them out from under the org-wide app setting. The authorization record for those agents has no requester and no approver.
Read issue 18 →