Microsoft's Global AI Diffusion Report found that worldwide AI usage reached 18.8% of the working-age population in June 2026, up about 1% from the first quarter, with the UAE at 73.3% and Singapore a…
Microsoft is running a four-part live series, "From Model to Agent: The Agent Framework Harness, Live in C#," streaming on the .NET YouTube channel and Microsoft Reactor on four consecutive Thursdays …
A developer's ski resort demo compared two multi-agent architectures — specialist agents invoked via Agent-to-Agent (A2A) versus distributed Agent Skills and typed tools served over Model Context Prot…
A Microsoft developer's evaluation of GPT-5.6 Luna's knowledge of Dev Proxy versions was invalidated because the coding agent located a local Dev Proxy installation and source checkout on the host mac…
GitHub released the GitHub Copilot SDK, which lets developers embed the runtime behind Copilot CLI into their own applications, and published Interview Coach, a .NET sample that uses the SDK to run a …
A framework for safe participation with AI for the next generation was published, according to the post's headline. The source provides no further details, figures, or named organizations behind the f…
A comparison of GPT-6 Astra and Claude Sonnet 4.6 across three code upgrade scenarios in GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code on Windows found Astra cost 2.4x to 5.6x more per run while deliverin…
Microsoft published its 2026 Responsible AI Transparency Report, detailing progress in building and deploying AI responsibly, with a focus on adaptive governance, technical risk management, and practi…
Anthropic has made five Claude capabilities—Structured outputs, Web search, Web fetch, MCP connector, and Tool search—available on deployments hosted on Azure in Microsoft Foundry, eliminating the tra…
Microsoft announced Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) in Preview for Visual Studio, enabled by default across Community, Professional, and Enterprise SKUs, allowing developers to connect to Microsoft Foundr…
Microsoft has launched the Azure SQL Database Foundations series, four videos covering Hyperscale database setup, migration, optimization, and AI integration, each with accompanying GitHub repos. The …
Anthropic's 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report reveals that engineers use AI in roughly 60% of their work but can fully delegate only 0–20% of tasks, highlighting the need for AI agents to integrate wi…
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…