Microsoft unveils a Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, featuring Nvidia's Arm-based RTX Spark, 128GB of unified memory, and a 100W thermal envelope, for local AI tasks
The Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is designed for local-first AI development. … Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra …
Microsoft announces Scout, an always-on enterprise AI agent built on OpenClaw that appears as a Microsoft Teams contact to automate tasks such as scheduling
Microsoft's OpenClaw-style agent appears in Teams, just like a human colleague, and automates your dull office tasks.
Microsoft unveils Majorana 2, a quantum chip that it developed using AI tools for materials science, and says it will have commercial quantum machines by 2029
Microsoft (MSFT.O) on Tuesday unveiled a new quantum computing chip that it redesigned with the help of AI …
Microsoft announces developer tools for Windows: a set of Linux-like command line utilities called Coreutils, WSL containers, an Intelligent Terminal, and more
UNIX-style core utilities for Windows.Windows Developer Blog:Build 2026: Furthering Windows as the trusted platform for developmentHamza Usmani /Microsoft:Announcing Intelligent Terminal 0.1Michael La...
Microsoft unveils Project Solara, an Android-based platform for agent-first devices, with concept hardware and pilots planned at Best Buy, Target, and others
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An interview with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman on Microsoft's models catching up to the state of the art from months ago, refusing to distill AI, and more
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Microsoft announces seven AI models, including a reasoning one and an “ultra efficient” coding one fine-tuned for GitHub, for businesses and to lower its costs
Frontier models for reasoning and coding... …
Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning AI model, trained “from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models”
MAI-Thinking-1 is one of seven new models announced at Build 2026. … Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models …
Microsoft releases ASSERT, an open-source framework that lets developers generate and run AI behavior tests using natural-language descriptions
Most AI systems start with a specification: product requirements, policies …Sarah Bird /Microsoft:Build agents you can trust across any framework with open evals and a control standardCommand Line:Tur...
Microsoft debuts MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning AI model, trained “from the ground up on clean data, without distillation from third-party models”
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