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At Microsoft Build on Tuesday in San Francisco, the company debuted Microsoft Scout, a new personal agent for work that The post Microsoft debuts “Scout” at Build, a new personal agent for work appeared first on The New Stack.
The good old terminal has been through a bit of a comeback in recent months, largely thanks to the popularity The post With Intelligent Terminal, Microsoft is reinventing the Windows terminal appeared first on The New Stack.
At its Build developer conference on Tuesday, Microsoft is launching so many new features for developers, it’s hard to keep The post Microsoft really, really, really wants developers to love Windows again appeared first on The New Stack.
Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new "flagship" model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year - before then, it had relied on OpenAI's models. The two companie
Microsoft’s new Majorana 2 quantum chip. | Image: Microsoft Microsoft claimed last year that it had made a key breakthrough in quantum computing with Majorana 1, the company's first quantum processor. While physicists were immediately skeptical of Microsoft's claims, the software giant is announcing
Microsoft Corp. today announced it’s bringing agentic development capabilities into the hands of developers with a new desktop form factor supercomputer called the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. Developed with Nvidia Corp.’s newly announced RTX Spark processor under the hood, it’s capable of delivering
Microsoft Corp. announced an expansion to its artificial intelligence models and agentic AI infrastructure today that brings more data and context into the hands of developers and business users as they deploy. During the company’s Microsoft Build annual developer conference in San Francisco, the co
A team inside Microsoft has been quietly building a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows. The first two concept devices, a desktop hub and a wearable badge, are headed to pilots with some big-name businesses. Read More
Microsoft's Build conference showcased the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. This powerful machine features an Nvidia chip, promising to bring advanced AI directly to personal computers. Microsoft aims to enhance AI safety for its Windows users and compete with rivals in the cloud and PC markets.
The company demoed Solara on an Echo Show-style smart display and a smart key badge.
Microsoft's Work IQ could make enterprise AI agents dramatically smarter, but the shift to agent-first IT brings serious questions about cost, governance, data exposure, and operational risk.
The specification lets developer, compliance and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.
Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.
No more angrily Googling commands to figure out why it didn't work.
For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflows with increasing autonomy. What the industry has not done, at least not with any consistency, is ans
Microsoft on Monday unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact desktop computer designed to let software developers run large AI models on their desks instead of paying for cloud computing — a move that directly challenges the per-token pricing model that has defined the AI industry's economi
The development device delivers up to 1 petaflop compute and features up to 128GB RAM — it can run 120B parameter models locally without cloud GPUs.
Microsoft is kicking off its Build developer conference today with a promise of making Windows a trusted platform for development. As the company continues to focus on performance and reliability fixes for Windows 11, it's also creating a developer-optimized experience that bundles a lot of useful t
Over the past several years, Microsoft has largely managed to withstand populist calls to break up Big Tech while peers faced sweeping lawsuits. But a probe by the Federal Trade Commission suggests that grace period could be nearing an end. Earlier this year, Bloomberg outlined the contents of civil
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