Microsoft Copilot Is Learning to Work: Are We Ready for AI That Acts? Skunkworks Academy • AI & Future of Work Microsoft Copilot Is Learning to Work Are We Ready for AI That Acts? From Prompt to Action: Ask → Create → Delegate → AI Acts. For the past few years, our relationship with artificial intelligence has followed a fairly simple pattern. We ask. AI answers. “Write this email.” “Summarise this meeting.” “Analyse this spreadsheet.” “Create a presentation.” And then we take over again. But what happens when AI does not wait for the next prompt? What happens when we can give an AI system an objective, allow it to work across our business tools, and have it continue working after we have moved on to something else? On 25 September 2026, Microsoft unveiled a major evolution of Copilot built around Home, Code and Autopilot . The direction is signifi...

AI Has Just Changed the Cybersecurity Game: What It Means for Portugal | Skunkworks Academy SKUNKWORKS ACADEMY | INSIGHTS & PRACTICAL TECHNOLOGY Cybersecurity & AI AI Has Just Changed the Cybersecurity Game: What It Means for Portugal 🤖 AI Has Just Changed the Cybersecurity Game Artificial intelligence has been changing the way we work for years. But something happened this week that takes the conversation about AI and cybersecurity to another level. On 3 September 2026 , OpenAI announced GPT-6 Astra, describing it as its most capable model yet. More importantly for the cybersecurity world, OpenAI said Astra is its first model to reach the Critical level of cybersecurity capability under its Preparedness Framework. OpenAI says that, with the right tools and access, Astra can find previously unknown security flaws and develop new ways to exploit them across many well-protected systems without a person...

AI Is Learning to Act. Are We Ready? AI agents are changing what technology can do. The question is whether we are developing the skills and judgement needed to guide them. Artificial intelligence has already changed the way we search, communicate, create and work. But something important is happening now. AI is moving beyond simply answering questions. It is beginning to take action . This next stage of AI is often described as agentic AI , where AI systems can be given a goal, decide on a series of steps, use tools, access information and carry out tasks with increasing levels of autonomy. That shift creates enormous opportunities. It also creates a very important question: If AI can increasingly act on our behalf, are we ready to guide it? AI Agents Are Different Traditional AI tools generally wait for a human instruction and then provide an answer o...

AI Has Learned to Hack: Are We Ready for the New Era of Autonomous Cyberattacks? What happens when a cyberattack no longer needs a human hacker sitting behind a keyboard? That question is no longer science fiction. In 2026, artificial intelligence systems are becoming increasingly capable of analysing vulnerabilities, writing code, interacting with online systems and carrying out multi-step tasks with limited human intervention. And cybersecurity researchers are discovering something that deserves serious attention: increasingly autonomous AI agents can sometimes take actions that their creators did not explicitly ask them to take. That changes the cybersecurity conversation. The issue is no longer simply whether AI can help someone write malicious code. The bigger question is: What happens when AI can plan, adapt and act? Recent incidents and security tests involving AI agents hav...