{"id":1014989,"date":"2026-06-17T08:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014989"},"modified":"2026-06-17T08:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:59:46","slug":"microsoft-launches-ai-agent-with-pay-as-you-go-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/microsoft-launches-ai-agent-with-pay-as-you-go-pricing\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft launches AI agent with pay-as-you-go pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is changing how it charges for its software for the first time in two decades, moving to bill customers with a pay-as-you-go model each time they use its new AI agent. <\/p>\n<p>The change, prompted by the soaring cost of artificial intelligence, came Tuesday as the company launched Copilot Cowork &#8212; an AI &#8220;agent&#8221; that can independently carry out office tasks like drafting documents, building spreadsheets and sending emails. <\/p>\n<p>The tool still requires a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription, but now every task it runs is billed separately, based on how much computing power it consumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is changing how it charges for its software for the first time in two decades, moving to bill customers with a pay-as-you-go model each time they use its new AI agent. The change, prompted by the soaring cost of artificial intelligence, came Tuesday as the company launched Copilot Cowork &#8212; an AI &#8220;agent&#8221; that can independently carry out office tasks like drafting documents, building spreadsheets and sending emails. The tool still requires a paid Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription, but now every task it runs is billed separately, based on how much computing power it consumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015012,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014989\/revisions\/1015012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}