Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw
5 hours ago
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- Microsoft has introduced Scout, an autonomous AI agent for Microsoft 365 that operates continuously to complete tasks without constant prompts.
- Scout connects to applications like Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint, accessing data from chat, email, calendar, and contacts while functioning across cloud, desktop, and web environments.
- The agent is designed to reduce mundane tasks such as scheduling meetings and identifying risks like stalled decisions, with availability as an experimental release to Frontier program customers.
- This launch follows Google's Spark agent for Workspace, and Scout is built on the OpenClaw framework with promises of enterprise-grade security, despite prior scrutiny of OpenClaw's security flaws.