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Five ways we’re confusing AI capability and AI reality—and how to bridge the gap
Microsoft partnered with Lectures on Tap to present Build on Tap, where CTO Kevin Scott addressed a growing perceptual disconnect in the tech industry.
Introducing Command Line, and the new rules for builders
Agentic AI is here, and the traditional software development lifecycle is broken. Get ready for what comes next by shifting your workflows and your mindset.
Composing a new platform for agent-first devices
New interaction technology enables new types of computers.
Microsoft Scout: From personal project to enterprise-ready personal agent
Omar Shahine and Jakob Werner talk shop about building an always-on, enterprise-secure, personal AI agent.
The agent optimization loop and how we built it in Foundry
By reframing the challenge of AI agent optimization, we arrived at a new understanding of what moves the needle and built out a plausible and novel solution.
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Grounding at scale: Engineering the retrieval system for the agentic web
Today at Build, we introduced Web IQ, a new grounding system for the agentic web.
Turn specs into evals for any agent with ASSERT
Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing (ASSERT) is an open-source framework for converting natural language behavior requirements into executable evaluations of AI models and agents.
Introducing Agent Control Specification: Portable runtime governance for AI Agents
ACS is an open, vendor-neutral standard that defines how runtime governance is applied across the agent lifecycle, independent of framework, runtime, or policy engine.
Disposable agents, durable memory: The architecture behind Squad
What we learned building Squad: a file-backed, human-led agent team where memory is inspectable, orchestration is explicit, and governance moves from prompts into code.
Inside the Microsoft Agent Framework: How we designed a layered SDK
Agent loops, workflows, and harnesses let developers choose the right architecture to support simple assistants and complex multi-agent systems.
Introducing Microsoft’s EngThrive framework: Understanding developer productivity in the agentic AI era
By looking at Speed, Ease, Quality, and Thriving, EngThrive aims to make it faster and easier for engineers to do great work.
How Excel got agentic: An interview with Microsoft Director of Science Mukul Singh
We sat down with Microsoft Director of Science Mukul Singh to learn how his team leveraged two years of research to bring agentic capabilities to Excel and beyond.