Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting
28-08-2026 12:29 via theregister.com

Microsoft's virtual intern Teams Facilitator will be late for the meeting

Microsoft has pushed back detection and question answering by the Teams Facilitator to November, after initially scheduling General Availability for June. Teams Facilitator is an AI assistant that joins meetings. It tracks agendas and can take notes, if enabled. The next stage in its development is to have it pop up and answer questions if it detects a knowledge gap. For example, somebody might ask "What is this Teams Facilitator thing?" and, if nobody answers, Facilitator will show a prompt off
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