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…
Microsoft has reduced its datacenter water use effectiveness by nearly 90% since the early 2000s, achieving a WUE of 0.27 L/kWh in 2025. The company replenished more water than it withdrew in FY25, re…
Microsoft released the Agent Framework, enabling developers to build custom agent harnesses with minimal code. The framework bundles function invocation, history persistence, planning, and web search …
Microsoft announced the general availability of the Azure Copilot Observability Agent, an AI-powered tool that correlates signals across agents, applications, infrastructure, and services to help orga…
A new analysis argues that claims about large language models having preferences, such as 'Claude prefers React,' are misleading because models lack preferences and instead reflect training data and c…
Microsoft announced a multibillion-dollar datacenter campus in Pecos, Texas, adding approximately 2 GW of capacity to meet surging AI and cloud demand. The project will support over 6,000 construction…
The carbon footprint of AI is projected to grow at a CAGR of nearly 44% through 2025, with computational costs doubling every few months. Training a single large NLP model can emit as much carbon as f…
Microsoft warns developers that overloading AI coding agents with redundant documentation wastes tokens and degrades performance. The company advises measuring baseline model knowledge first, then bui…
AI coding agent extensions can degrade performance when installed together due to token competition, vocabulary collisions, and guidance conflicts, even if each extension works well in isolation. Deve…