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Microsoft details how AI agents are transforming large-scale codebases like Windows and Azure, shifting verification from manual review to automated formal methods to ensure trustworthy transformations.
A new Microsoft-backed book examines how AI is reshaping education and work, warning that uneven global access risks deepening divides unless systems adapt responsibly.
An entomologist used Microsoft’s Discovery app to adapt an AI-driven insect monitoring system to track the Asian citrus psyllid, a pest spreading a devastating citrus disease, compressing weeks of research into days.
Volkswagen Group will deploy Microsoft Copilot to over 330,000 employees, aiming to enhance efficiency across engineering, production, procurement, and sales while prioritizing employee-centered AI adoption.
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system, MAI-DxO, outperforms physicians in accuracy and cost efficiency across complex and routine medical cases, according to benchmark tests using real clinical data.
Microsoft introduces Flint-interactive, a language for creating interactive data visualizations, enabling users to explore charts dynamically rather than rely on static images.
Microsoft and the Public Library Association launched a free AI literacy program for public library workers and patrons, expanding access through trusted local institutions.
TK Elevator equips 25,000 technicians with AI agents built on Microsoft Azure and Azure OpenAI to streamline maintenance, diagnostics and debriefing, cutting manual research time and improving service reliability.
Researchers at Microsoft have resolved the 31-year-old Kannan–Lovász–Simonovits conjecture, proving a fundamental principle in high-dimensional geometry that impacts sampling and algorithm efficiency.
Microsoft released a PowerToys update adding mouse utilities, Command Palette shelf, ZoomIt dictation, and new command-line tools to streamline Windows tasks.
NHS England plans to deploy Microsoft Copilot to 505,000 staff to reduce administrative burden and free up clinicians’ time for patient care.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust uses Copilot to reduce administrative workload, aiming to free clinicians for patient care while targeting measurable operational improvements.
Volkswagen Group has deployed Microsoft Copilot to over 330,000 employees, enhancing productivity and decision-making across its operations through AI integration.
Microsoft opened a €1m STEM and AI learning hub at its Grange Castle campus, offering hands-on sessions to over 5,000 students annually while supporting local digital infrastructure careers.
Saint-Gobain and Microsoft used AI to accelerate research into lower-carbon cement additives, cutting analysis time from a year to hours and reducing construction waste by 30%.
Microsoft unveiled expanded Microsoft Sovereign Cloud features in Paris, aiming to give organizations more control over sensitive workloads across public and private cloud environments.
Formula One race strategists use AI and cloud computing to make split-second decisions on tire choices and pit stops, turning data into race-winning advantages.
Microsoft announced Windows 11 updates improving responsiveness by up to 20%, memory efficiency, and new search actions, alongside enhanced phone integration and Photos app features.
Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University launched PRAISE, a mentorship program pairing junior engineers with senior preceptors to adapt to AI-driven software development while preserving engineering accountability.
Bar-Ilan University introduced an AI agent on its Moodle platform to help students catch up on missed lectures by summarizing course materials and generating quizzes, with plans to expand its use.
Microsoft describes how it built an AI agent to diagnose and fix production network incidents autonomously, emphasizing that safety depends on layered controls rather than smarter models.
Microsoft researchers introduce StudentSim, an AI system that simulates individual student responses to tutor guidance to accelerate AI tutoring system development before real-world testing.
Microsoft announced plans to expand its Azure Maia AI inference chip family, scaling deployments to multi-gigawatt levels by 2027 to support core products like Copilot and emerging AI workloads.
Microsoft launched Microsoft-Decision-1, a model designed for fast, structured decision-making, outperforming LLMs in speed and accuracy while offering calibrated confidence scores.
Microsoft’s AX Practitioner Playbook provides a structured method to assess and improve how AI coding agents interact with specific technologies, addressing recurring errors in SDK selection, authentication, and setup...
Microsoft Power Platform integrates AI into existing business applications, enabling organizations to enhance current systems and create new solutions without starting from scratch.
Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report highlights how AI is transforming cybersecurity by accelerating both attacks and defenses across interconnected systems.
Microsoft introduced MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming for real-time transcription in 60 languages and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, optimized for multilingual conversational AI at low latency...
AI is being embedded into healthcare workflows to reduce administrative burdens, accelerate research, and improve decision-making, with organizations reporting measurable gains in efficiency and clinician time.
Microsoft’s Discovery app assisted researchers in building a cloud-based bioinformatics pipeline to identify bacteriophages against drug-resistant bacteria, accelerating phage therapy workflows without claiming...