Microsoft Research released Aurora 1.5, an updated Earth-system foundation model for weather forecasting, adding 22 weather variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecastin…
Microsoft Research introduced Flint, an open-source visualization intermediate language that enables AI agents to generate polished charts from compact specs. Flint supports 46 chart types and can com…
GraphRAG, a retrieval-augmented generation method from Microsoft Research, uses knowledge graphs to connect entities and relationships, improving AI's ability to answer complex queries accurately. Thi…
Microsoft Research unveiled Memora, a memory system for AI agents that decouples storage from retrieval to provide scalable long-term recall. The system reduces context token usage by up to 98% while …
Sean Xuefeng Du will present a new hallucination-detection method, Answer-agreement Representation Shaping (ARS), at ICML 2026 in Seoul on July 9. The work, developed at Nanyang Technological Universi…
A chatbot built to mimic human texting gradually broke character over long conversations, outputting markdown and lists despite a system prompt banning them. Researchers found this isn't a prompt-writ…
Researchers from Microsoft Research, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and Columbia University developed generative causal testing (GCT), a method that distills black-box brain-prediction models into tes…
Microsoft Research's AutoGen framework enables multi-agent AI systems where specialized agents collaborate through structured conversations to solve complex tasks. The open-source framework, which gai…
A 2025 experiment by research nonprofit METR found that 16 experienced open-source developers using AI tools on familiar codebases were actually 19% slower, despite expecting a 24% speedup and feeling…
Researchers from Renmin University of China and Microsoft Research introduced Arbor, a persistent hypothesis tree that helps AI coding agents remember and refine learnings over long research sessions.…
Microsoft researchers detailed an exploit chain called AutoJack that turns an AI browsing agent into a delivery vehicle for remote code execution. The flaw sits in AutoGen Studio, the open-source prot…
Klarna cut hundreds of customer service roles in 2024 to replace them with an AI chatbot, but after customer complaints, it began hiring gig workers instead of full-time agents. This shift illustrates…
Researchers at Renmin University of China and Microsoft Research released Arbor, an open-source framework that outperformed OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code by more than 2.5 times in average…
Global data center electricity demand grew 17% in 2025 and is projected to nearly double to 950 TWh by 2030, driven largely by AI inference workloads, according to the International Energy Agency. On-…
Microsoft Research has released SkillLens, an open-source framework designed as a "microscope" for analyzing how AI agents absorb and utilize skills. The framework provides a complete pipeline for ext…
Microsoft Corporation released an artificial intelligence chatbot named Tay on Twitter on March 23, 2016, designed to mimic a 19-year-old American girl and learn from user interactions. Within 16 hour…
Mukul Singh transitioned from Microsoft Research to the Office Product Group two years ago to deliver agentic AI capabilities in Excel, now known as edit with Copilot in Excel. The feature, initially …
Researchers from over 30 institutions worldwide, including the University of Tokyo, Microsoft Research, and Tsinghua University, have developed ChatPaper, a tool that enables users to explore and inte…
Microsoft Research's ARTIST framework trains LLM agents to discover when and how to call tools through reinforcement learning, using only outcome-based rewards rather than step-by-step annotations. At…
A new study from Microsoft Research, DELEGATE-52, found that 19 large language models, including frontier systems like Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT 5.4, corrupt an average of 25% of document content during …