Jeff Teper says persistent agents in Copilot Studio can each have an account, so people can email them, add them to Teams or mention them in Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The first features are in preview now. For most industrial companies on Microsoft 365, this is where agents will show up first.
Jerry Liu released ExtractBench Pro, a benchmark for pulling data from long, messy documents with tables, charts and handwriting. Spec sheets, MTRs and turnover packages are exactly that kind of document.
A vision model finds the symbols and plain image processing finds the connections, then it exports CSV, SQL, GraphML and Cypher. The author tested it on one dense open dataset sheet, not on the workflows he lists.
For process and chemical engineers: once a drawing is a table, you can ask which valves sit between a pump and a tank, or what a valve isolates, then check the answer against the sheet.
AI vision reads the symbols and tags, code traces the lines, and the output is scored against public answer keys. The repo says every extracted item is unverified until reviewed, and that no operations review has been done yet.
For controls and reliability teams: it targets the first step of a digital twin project, retyping tag lists by hand, and it ranks items by review risk so engineers know what to check first.