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Austin Berke, Lead AI Product Engineer at Harmonic, shared how they used LangChain's Deep Agents framework to rebuild Scout, quadrupling user retention from week 1 to week 4. The core approach is to use the file system as shared storage to manage context, connecting agents, frontend, and deterministic processes, allowing the model to build context on demand.

Microsoft has begun rolling out Scout, an always-on AI agent that operates across Microsoft 365, to organizations in the Frontier program. The agent can perform multi-step automations, integrate with Zapier-like orchestration, and work with local files.

Internal Microsoft documents reveal the company's strategy for its new AI assistant Scout is to intentionally make users addicted before expanding it into an agentic platform.

Microsoft Build 2026 featured major announcements including a new Surface dev box with Nvidia Arm chip, Windows improvements like native Linux utilities and Intelligent Terminal, an AI assistant called Scout, and seven new in-house AI models including the reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1.

Microsoft launches Scout, an AI assistant built on the OpenClaw framework, designed as an always-on agentic assistant integrated into Microsoft 365 with persistent memory, customizable skills, and security protections.

Microsoft is set to launch a revamped Copilot super app; leaked screenshots show it powered by an AI agent named Scout.