SharePoint

2026-10-07

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · AWS Machine Learning

Amazon adds real-time ACL verification to Quick and Bedrock Knowledge Bases for RAG

Amazon implemented a two-stage access-control approach for Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases: pre-retrieval ACL filtering against indexed attributes, followed by real-time verification with authoritative data sources (e.g., Google Drive APIs using service-account impersonation) to ensure RAG responses respect current permissions.

6.0

2026-10-05

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

PwC and Cohere form global alliance to deploy Cohere's North for secure enterprise AI, launching in Canada

PwC and Cohere announced a global alliance, launching first in Canada, to help organizations deploy Cohere’s North — a secure agentic AI platform — and turn AI investments into measurable business value. The collaboration pairs Cohere’s enterprise models, search and retrieval capabilities, and deployment options (private cloud, on‑premises, air‑gapped) with PwC’s industry, risk, regulatory, technology, and transformation expertise to identify use cases, connect AI to trusted enterprise data and systems, and establish governance for scaled, responsible deployment.

7.0

2026-09-25

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere launches Compass Cloud as managed private beta

Cohere is offering Compass — its document parsing and retrieval platform for RAG, search, and agent workflows — as a managed cloud product called Compass Cloud, entering a limited private beta while continuing to support self‑hosted deployments for regulated customers. The managed service centralizes ingestion, indexing, embedding, retrieval, reranking, and permissions, and provides connectors (e.g., SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive), an MCP server, and a Python SDK to simplify enterprise deployment and reduce operational overhead.

6.0

2026-09-16

MODELS · 1 SOURCE · xAI

Grok add-in launches for Microsoft Excel

Grok is now available as a free Microsoft 365 add-in for Excel, letting users ask questions in plain English, generate formulas from descriptions, run scenarios, and insert charts that cite the source cells. The add-in can pull context from recent emails or files in SharePoint and Google Drive, is installable from the Microsoft Marketplace, and is also available for Word and PowerPoint.

6.0