Copilot Cowork turns Microsoft 365 into your AI employee

PLUS: Anthropic opens Claude Marketplace with zero fees & OpenAI ships Codex Security. OpenAI's robotics chief quits over Pentagon deal, Cursor adds always-on Automations.

In today’s agenda:

1️⃣ Microsoft launches Copilot Cowork, turning its chatbot into an autonomous task-executing assistant across 365 apps

2️⃣ Anthropic unveils enterprise marketplace letting customers buy third-party software with existing spending commitments

3️⃣ OpenAI launches AI security agent that scanned 1.2 million commits in first 30 days

  • OpenAI's robotics director publicly resigns over Pentagon deal concerns

  • Cursor introduces always-on agents that run on schedules with self-verification

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H-FARM CLUB Artificial Intelligence

H-FARM's AI Club is a monthly community meetup that brings up to 500 people together in our beautiful H-FARM Campus to cut through the AI noise with real news, real cases, real debate. Join us on March 12 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. On stage this edition:

  • Latest news & updates by Diego Pizzocaro (CEO, H-FARM AI): A practical, up-to-date selection of news, newly released or updated tools, and best practices useful across industries.

  • Automating Workflows with AI by Emilio Turco (Senior Account Executive, n8n): How is AI automation evolving? From agentic workflows and human-in-the-loop systems to reliability at scale — real-world use cases, lessons learned, and best practices around governance, security, and evaluation to discover how the most advanced companies are building cutting-edge solutions today.

  • More speakers to come.

MAIN AI UPDATES / 9th March 2026

🚀 Copilot Cowork turns Microsoft 365 into your AI employee 🚀
Microsoft's Copilot evolves from chatbot to autonomous assistant that executes multi-step tasks across Office apps.

Microsoft has launched Copilot Cowork, a major upgrade that transforms Copilot from a conversational chatbot into an active task-executing assistant inside Microsoft 365. Users describe what needs to be done in natural language, and Cowork breaks it into steps, completing them across Outlook, Teams, and Excel using existing work data. It can reschedule meetings, prepare client documents, research companies, or plan product launches — all running in the background while checking in when needed. This deep integration into 365 workflows gives Microsoft a distribution edge in the agentic AI race. The system stays within Microsoft 365's security and compliance framework throughout.

🔮 Anthropic opens Claude Marketplace with zero fees 🔮
Enterprise customers can now buy third-party Claude-built software through existing spending commitments.

Anthropic has unveiled the Claude Marketplace, a new enterprise platform allowing customers to purchase third-party software built on Claude using their existing Anthropic spending commitment. The marketplace operates with zero commission on transactions, with Anthropic handling all invoicing for partner spend. Launch partners include major players like Snowflake, Lovable, GitLab, Harvey, Replit, and Rogo. This pricing model could significantly boost enterprise stickiness and ecosystem lock-in. The company is actively seeking additional partners to expand the marketplace, signaling aggressive growth ambitions as it competes with OpenAI and Google for enterprise AI dominance.

🔒 OpenAI ships Codex Security to scan vulnerabilities 🔒
New AI security agent analyzes codebases and proposes ready-to-deploy fixes in sandboxed environments.

OpenAI has launched Codex Security, an AI-powered application security agent now available in research preview for Pro, Enterprise, Edu, and Business customers. The tool analyzes repositories, builds deep context around codebases, and identifies high-impact vulnerabilities before proposing fixes. In its first 30 days, Codex Security scanned over 1.2 million commits, surfacing 792 critical and more than 10,500 high-severity findings across open-source projects. This rollout positions OpenAI to compete directly with established application security tools, leveraging AI's ability to understand complex code relationships at scale.

INTERESTING TO KNOW

📱 OpenAI's robotics chief quits over Pentagon deal 📱

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's robotics director who joined from Meta's AR glasses team in November, has publicly resigned over the company's controversial Pentagon deal. She stated the decision was "about principle, not people," claiming the deal was pushed through "without the guardrails defined" on AI in warfare. The regulation concerns have triggered competitive pressure: Claude climbed to No. 1 on the App Store while ChatGPT subscription cancellations reportedly surged.

⚡ Cursor adds always-on Automations for agentic coding ⚡

Cursor has introduced Automations, enabling developers to build always-on AI agents that run on schedules or trigger via webhooks. Automated agents spin up their own cloud sandboxes and self-verify their output, while a built-in memory tool lets them learn from past runs. This shifts coding from reactive assistance to proactive, autonomous maintenance — positioning Cursor as a leader in the agentic coding space.

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