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Microsoft's official free course "AI Agents for Beginners" has expanded to 18 lessons, covering everything from basic concepts of AI Agent development to production deployment, with written tutorials, videos, and runnable Jupyter Notebook code examples.
Microsoft plans to bring Xbox 360 games to PC as part of its backward compatibility efforts, with a gradual rollout between 2027 and 2028, and is also working on a disc-to-digital program for physical game licenses.
Microsoft Research introduces Orchard, an open-source framework for scalable and cost-effective agentic AI research, with reusable infrastructure supporting software-engineering, web-navigation, and personal-assistant agents across domains.
Microsoft open-sourced Skill Recorder, a tool that records the screen and uses GitHub Copilot to analyze the user's intent and action steps, converting them into reusable Skills or automated workflows for AI agents. Unlike traditional RPA, it's smarter and tends to use native tools rather than replaying click operations.
Microsoft is testing a new native real-time voice model, MAI Realtime, in early access on its MAI Playground. The full-duplex system supports multiple languages, low latency, and configurable turn-taking, positioning it as a competitor to OpenAI's GPT Live and Sesame.
Microsoft is raising Xbox prices in Europe and the UK by up to €200 or £170, citing AI-driven demand for memory and storage driving up component costs. The increases affect multiple Series X and Series S models, with the 512GB Series S jumping over 43%.
A conference talk at EMF 2026 where researcher Rairii presents findings on hacking Microsoft's Windows 365 Link thin client, bypassing its locked-down 'secure-by-design' architecture including EFI Secure Boot and BitLocker.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares a memo detailing four strategic priorities for fiscal year 2027 to return the division to player and revenue growth after a major 'reset' involving layoffs and studio changes.
Best Buy is offering Microsoft's 13.8-inch Surface Laptop with 16GB RAM and Snapdragon X2 Plus chip for $999.99, a significant discount from its original price.
LinkedIn plans to keep its compute and storage footprint flat for the next fiscal year by improving GPU efficiency, bucking the trend of aggressive data center expansion by other big tech companies.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is openly positioning the company against OpenAI and Anthropic, urging enterprises to use multiple models and avoid vendor lock-in as Microsoft pushes its own AI models and Copilot agents.
Microsoft reports record FY26 Q4 results with 18% revenue growth to $90B, driven by strong demand for Microsoft Cloud (Azure surpasses $100B) and Microsoft 365 Copilot reaching 30 million paid seats.
Microsoft reported a $3.2 billion gain from its Anthropic investment in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2026, while its OpenAI investment was written down by $600 million, though it gained $5 billion for the full year.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that the company is developing a 'super app' that integrates Copilot's chat, coding, and agentic capabilities, set to launch this year for both consumer and commercial use.
Microsoft's Q4 2026 earnings report shows Xbox revenue declining 10% while cloud and AI revenue surged to $59 billion, driven by Azure and Microsoft 365 Copilot growth.
The article explores the growing conflict between open-weight and closed AI models, highlighting the debate over distillation and US-China tensions, with Microsoft and many tech giants supporting open weights.
Anthropic's Mythos AI model has been uncovering critical and important bugs in Microsoft's SharePoint and other software at a rate that outstrips Microsoft's ability to patch them, raising urgent security concerns about adversaries exploiting the same vulnerabilities.
Microsoft's Mage-Flow models appear to have been removed from HuggingFace (404), though community quantized versions remain available elsewhere.
Microsoft confirms that the recent Xbox outage shouldn't have prevented disc-based games from working, blaming an external licensing service for the issue and planning a fix.
Microsoft unveils Mage, a family of compact 4B-parameter multimodal models for visual understanding and generation, designed for easy training and deployment on modest hardware while staying competitive with larger open models.