Google, Microsoft Back Draft AI Agent Discovery Spec - AIskimIQ Daily Brief - 2026-06-19

AIskimIQ — Daily AI News Brief · Jun 19, 2026 · 11m

Microsoft dominated today's AI news with a sweeping Copilot expansion — launching the agentic Copilot Cowork system, revising its pricing model, and pushing AI agents beyond chat — while Google and Microsoft jointly backed a draft specification for AI agent discovery, signaling growing industry momentum toward interoperable agentic frameworks. xAI's Grok Imagine Video 1.5 also made headlines by topping AI video leaderboards at 86% lower cost than Sora, underscoring intensifying competition in generative media. — Podcast voice is synthetic and episodes are produced with AI workflows.