GitHub Copilot CLI, Microsoft's command-line AI agent, can automate C++ dependency management and project setup, as demonstrated in a Pure Virtual C++ 2026 session where it built a CMake-based CLI app…
Microsoft reported that customers across industries moved from AI experimentation to deploying AI for real-world business outcomes in FY26, with the emergence of Frontier Firms embedding AI at the cor…
Microsoft introduced Project Perception, a new agentic security system designed for the age of AI, which coordinates red, blue, and green team agents to continuously perceive, reason, and act against …
Microsoft is launching The Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent's Playbook, a four-part livestream series starting August 18, 2025, to help developers and technical teams build, extend, ground, and evaluate de…
Microsoft has released the Agent Framework Harness, a stable, batteries-included runtime for building agents in Python and .NET that provides loop, planning, memory, context management, approvals, and…
Microsoft announced a $60 million investment in the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission to accelerate AI for science, including $40 million in Azure compute and AI credits and $20 million in soluti…
Microsoft is expanding its Azure AI and HPC infrastructure with AMD's latest Helios AI platform and next-generation EPYC datacenter processors, introducing three new virtual machine offerings: HDv2 fo…
Building effective agent experience (AX) evaluations requires six structural components—representative prompts, accurate and unambiguous criteria, multiple runs, and clean and representative environme…
Microsoft published its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report, detailing progress against its 2020 baseline amid rapid AI growth. The company acknowledges increased demand for energy, water, and ma…
GitHub announced a free virtual training event, "Let's Learn GitHub Copilot App," scheduled for July 16, to teach developers and technical professionals how to use the new agent-driven development des…
A developer's agent evaluation results can vary across machines due to hidden environmental variables like operating system and shell, which influence the agent's command fluency, error recovery, and …
The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) launched its third cohort of researchers to study artificial intelligence's impact on work, jobs, and productivity. The 23-member cohort from global institutions will a…
Microsoft announced Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating business focused on AI-driven transformation, backed by a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 industry and engineering experts. The compan…
Public AI benchmarks like SWE-bench measure performance on popular open-source repositories but fail to predict how models will perform on proprietary codebases, team-specific conventions, and real-wo…
Microsoft announced the public preview of WSL containers at Build 2026, enabling developers to run Linux containers natively on Windows without third-party tools. The feature includes a new CLI (wslc.…
Microsoft released a setup LSP skill for the C++ language server plugin in Copilot CLI, enabling developers to generate compile_commands.json for CMake, MSBuild, and custom build systems. The skill si…
Microsoft found that AI coding agents ignore documentation tips because they form plans before reading. To redirect agents, developers must explicitly state that the agent's current plan will fail, no…
Microsoft is transforming its software development lifecycle into an agentic platform where AI agents collaborate across planning, coding, security, and operations. The company reports that 62% of its…
Microsoft disrupted over 200 command-and-control servers by targeting two cybercrime tools, Amadey and StealC, simultaneously using AI-assisted analysis and the RICO statute. The operation, conducted …
When AI coding agents encounter proprietary code unseen during training, they fall into a 'closest-match trap' by generating plausible but incorrect code based on similar public APIs. Baseline evaluat…