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Digimarc Corporation (DMRC) announced that it is extending its agent-native provenance and verification infrastructure capabilities to the leading platforms used to build and deploy autonomous systems, including LangChain, ServiceNow (NOW) Action Fabric, Salesforce Agentforce, Google (GOOGL) Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, and Microsoft (MSFT)Copilot Studio. These extensions of the Digimarc platform allow any AI agent created in these agentic ecosystems to cryptographically stamp outputs at the moment of creation, establish authenticity of ingested content before taking action via submission to Digimarc's multi-layered verification engine, and retrieve a complete lineage chain from the Digimarc Lineage Vault for audit, incident response, and compliance reporting.

Dell (DELL) has been awarded a $1.44B firm-fixed-price call order under blanket purchase agreement for the Microsoft (MSFT) enterprise license agreement renewal. This contract provides for Microsoft 365 E3/E5 and F-series enterprise software licenses, software assurance, and associated subscription services. Work will be performed at Round Rock, Texas, and various locations, and is expected to be completed by April 30, 2029. This contract was a sole source acquisition. FY26 operations and maintenance funds in the amount of $208.82M are being obligated at time of award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center is the contracting activity.

Several development studios in Microsoft's Xbox unit, including Compulsion Games and Double Fine, are in active talks to spin off as they attempt to ward off closures, Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports, citing people familiar with the company's plans. Meanwhile, "Hellblade" studio Ninja Theory is also in negotiations with Xbox, as are a number of other studios across the portfolio at risk of being closed, the author notes.