Microsoft Assembles Engineering Team to Integrate OpenClaw into M365 Copilot
Microsoft is done pretending that copilots are good enough. The company is assembling a dedicated engineering team with one clear mandate: integrate OpenClaw — the open-source autonomous agent framework — directly into M365 Copilot. The earliest preview is expected to debut at Microsoft Build 2026 in June, and if the framing holds, it represents the clearest signal yet that the “chatbot era” of enterprise AI is ending. From RAG to Real Autonomy Right now, M365 Copilot is a very sophisticated search engine. It retrieves documents, summarizes them, drafts emails. Those are genuinely useful things. But the architecture underlying all of it is Retrieval-Augmented Generation — a model that finds and reports, not one that acts. ...