Microsoft announces Scout, an always-on enterprise AI agent built on OpenClaw, appearing as a Microsoft Teams contact to automate tasks like scheduling and more
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Discussion
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Omar Shahine
Omar Shahine
on linkedin
Introducing Microsoft Scout, the first autopilot agent from Microsoft - 57 days after starting my new job, we are launching Microsoft Scout to our Frontier customers. …
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@josephcox
Joseph Cox
on bluesky
New from 404 Media: we've seen internal documents that show Microsoft is explicitly planning to “make people addicted” to its new AI assistant ‘Scout’ which the company just announced. It is a clear goal according to the documents, with addiction being the first phase www.404med…
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@emanuelmaiberg
Emanuel Maiberg
on bluesky
internal company documents show that Microsoft plans on getting users “addicted” to AI agents. Not language Microsoft employees we talked to are thrilled about or believe in. www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...
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@jasonkoebler
Jason Koebler
on bluesky
New: Internal Microsoft planning documents say the company's goal is to “make people addicted” to its new Scout AI assistant — www.404media.co/microsoft-wa...
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r/ChatGPT
r
on reddit
Microsoft Wants to ‘Make People Addicted’ to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
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@bdsams
Brad Sams
on x
This is the first time, in several years at Build, that Windows has a future.
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@xenopanther
Xeno
on x
Coreutils coming to Windows! [image]
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@mweinbach
Max Weinbach
on x
Wow, Microsoft is really working on Windows to make it just so much more dev and AI agent friendly Fantastic! https://www.youtube.com/...
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@windowsdev
@windowsdev
on x
Unmetered intelligence delivered on Windows with new on-device SLMs, Aion 1.0 Instruct and Aion 1.0 Plan, and the expansion of Windows AI APIs to more Windows 11 PCs across CPUs and GPUs 🧠 #MSBuild See how we are helping accelerate local AI development: https://blogs.windows.com/…
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
on x
Microsoft's new developer-optimized Windows experience embraces Linux even more. Microsoft has created Coreutils for Windows from the uutils open-source project, and is launching new WSL containers in a bid to make Windows a trusted platform for devs👇 https://www.theverge.com/...
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@uutils@mastodon.social
@uutils@mastodon.social
on mastodon
Exciting to see Microsoft using uutils as the basis for Coreutils for Windows. — https://github.com/... https://www.theverge.com/... Bringing cross-platform, Rust-based coreutils to more developers is exactly why this project exists: familiar Unix tools, native performance, a…
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
on x
will be interesting to see where Microsoft goes with Project Solara. It has tried and failed to build platforms for many devices in the past - Band, Cortana devices, Windows Phone, the list goes on. This time it's using a version of Android, anticipating future AI agent hardware …
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@microsoft
@microsoft
on x
What changes when agents become both a new unit of programming and an emerging new unit of human-to-machine interaction? The mission of Project Solara, a new software platform coupled with tailored hardware solutions, is to pioneer agent-first experiences that are shaped around […
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
on x
Microsoft's Project Solara is an OS for AI agent gadgets. The company showed off two devices at Build: a desk concept and a badge concept. Details 👇 https://www.theverge.com/...
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@donasarkar
Dona Sarkar
on x
I actually like this badgey thing. This can be SUPER useful for retail popups and a whole bunch of stuff in the service industry like bars, restaurants etc. #MSBuild [image]
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
on x
Best Buy, CVS, Target and others are already exploring ideas with Project Solara! Now we're rolling a Qualcomm video in the device lab showing off some of the reference designs
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@cristianoamon
Cristiano R. Amon
on x
We're shifting from apps and operating systems to agents, and that changes the device experience end to end. Great conversation with @satyanadella on what comes next. Watch our discussion from #MSBuild. Read the OnQ blog post for more. https://www.qualcomm.com/... [video]
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@mweinbach
Max Weinbach
on x
I like Solara because I wrote this a few months ago that dedicated devices don't make sense, use what we have and have the agents adapt to you and what you want to use/use already [image]
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@markhachman
Mark Hachman
on x
Project Solara by Microsoft appears to be Microsoft's entry into smart devices, one for the desk, powered by Mediatek and Qualcomm. “Think of it as a secure ambient device for work.”
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
on x
The first device for Project Solara is a desk device concept, powered by a MediaTek SoC that can basically be an ambient always-on, always-available device that can handle your agents for you.
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@mweinbach
Max Weinbach
on x
Microsoft Project Solara seems really cool. Platform to build unified agents on any hardware type [image]
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
on x
Project Solara is about 3 things: * Being enterprise ready * JIT UI that adapts to the form factor * Extstensible so you can bring your own agent But enough of that, onto the devices!
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
on x
Steve is on stage talking about Project Solara and he's asking “what's the form factor?” what will the form factors be of the computer. “The next computer isn't one device, it's all devices working together as one system.”
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@microsoft
@microsoft
on x
Introducing Project Solara, a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven experiences, including two new concept devices that reimagine how this comes to life. Together, these updates simplify how you set up, build, and run across environments, bringing everything…
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@robbwitmer.info
@robbwitmer.info
on bluesky
Been saying for years that the one thing keeping Ai from being useful is the ability to harness the power of Bing [embedded post]
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@swyx
@swyx
on x
uhhh did Mustafa just leak the Mythos FLOP count?? was this public knowledge before, even if its an estimate i dont get what you gain out of this [image]
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@satyanadella
Satya Nadella
on x
Great to be back at Microsoft Build today. For us, it is not about any one piece of technology or even the platform. It is about how we can build a frontier intelligence ecosystem together. Sharing some of our big announcements today ...
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
on x
Chainsmokers are doing a set tonight at Build. All the devs are gonna do so many lines tonight... of code
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@marcusash
Marcus Ash
on x
Being able to talk in normal human language to the terminal is going to make the power of things like PowerShell available to so many more Windows users. ❤️ this work.
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@altryne
Alex Volkov
on x
.@satyanadella just put the whole “water” debate to rest. Datacenters run on a closed loop cooling system, the water usage of a datacenter for an entire year is roughly equivalent to a usage of 1 restaurant! [video]
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
on x
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has dialed into Microsoft Build from Computex to talk about the partnership with Microsoft. The pair have been working on RTX Spark for around 3 years [image]
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@tomwarren
Tom Warren
on x
Satya Nadella discussing Windows at Build, and the new Surface devices with Nvidia chips [image]
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
on x
So the big first news is that more Windows AI APIs are coming ot more PCs on CPU, GPU, NPU. So no more are you limited to just a Copilot+ PC. There are two new models too Aion 1.0 plan, local reasoning and tool calling model for agentic apps. And Aion 1.0 Instruct, an SLM built
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
on x
The new stuff in Windows 11 that @cinnamon_msft is showing off is super slick. Unsurprisingly, I love the Intelligent Terminal the most — there is a new native container experience in Windows too. #MSBuild
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@altryne
Alex Volkov
on x
BREAKING: @satyanadella just announced a Dev ready windows, including ZSH, intelligent terminal (hello @warpdotdev) and Homebrew on windows + WSL native containers 📦 during $MSFT BUILD This will all make the new RTX Spark machines running local AI loads. [image]
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@caseynewton
Casey Newton
on bluesky
Help, I'm trapped in the Microsoft Execution Container and the walls are closing in [embedded post]
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Brenna Robinson
Brenna Robinson
on linkedin
Exciting work over the last few weeks leading new launches today at Microsoft BUILD! — That is especially true around our release of Scout …
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r/nottheonion
r
on reddit
Microsoft Wants to ‘Make People Addicted’ to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal
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Jordi Ribas
Jordi Ribas
on linkedin
As Satya shared in today's keynote at Build, we just launched Microsoft Web IQ - our next generation search engine for AI agents. …
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Charles Lamanna
Charles Lamanna
on linkedin
Today at #MSBuild, we announced the new Work IQ APIs - generally available June 16. — They give you direct access to the intelligence layer behind Microsoft 365 …
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@orenme
Oren Melamed
on x
The GitHub Copilot app is now available for more people, good time to try it I'm learning new things every day, for example the way it renders the plan with updates is absolutly beutiful! [image]
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@github
@github
on x
The next frontier of agentic development is here, and you are in control. Today we announced releases that will keep you in the flow with your agents, all on the GitHub platform. ⬇️ [image]
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@github
@github
on x
The GitHub Copilot app, an agent-native desktop experience built on GitHub, is now in an expanded technical preview. 🧑🍳 You decide what agents tackle, how much autonomy each agent gets, and what ships. Go from issue to merged pull request without leaving the app. [video]
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Luke Hoban
Luke Hoban
on linkedin
I've been excited about many of the things we've shipped over the last year, across GitHub Copilot CLI, SDK, Cloud Agents, and more. …
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Adam Sheppard
Adam Sheppard
on linkedin
We Shipped! 8 weeks, tiny but mighty, “Oceans 11” team who'd never worked together, across two continents. …
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Jeff Teper
Jeff Teper
on linkedin
Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent in Teams with WorkIQ + OpenClaw — https://lnkd.in/... Congrats Omar Shahine and team who worked super hard on this! …