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Office Agent in Copilot chat, powered by Anthropic models, brings presentation and document creation into a chat-first interface.
In Copilot Studio, users will be able to build, orchestrate, and manage agents using Anthropic models for reasoning, workflow automation, and other agentic tasks.
‘AI adoption is being driven by a young workforce, strong digital infrastructure, and a thriving ecosystem of startups and multinationals’
Don’t think of AI as a threat but as an amplifier, advises Microsoft CPO Aparna Chennapragada.
Microsoft confirmed that trusted testers can apply for API access to the model.
VibeVoice can produce up to 90 minutes of synthetic dialogue with as many as four distinct speakers.
92% of leaders are considering AI-specific positions, while 57% expect teams to build multi-agent systems for complex tasks.
While contributing to IndiaAI Mission, the tech giant is also devising solutions to societal challenges in India.
Microsoft said it plans to spend a record $30 billion in the first quarter of this fiscal year.
New features on Microsoft Edge are designed to enhance web browsing efficiency by enabling users to perform tasks more effectively while minimising clutter.
With at least 20 hires from DeepMind in just six months, Microsoft is engaged in a fierce competition for top AI talent, intensifying the hiring war among tech giants.
The agreement is valued at around $2.4 billion and involves a non-exclusive license, allowing Windsurf to remain independent.
Microsoft is enhancing the AI models capable of running on a single GPU to include reasoning capabilities.
As part of the integration, Replit is connecting with several Microsoft services, including Azure Container Apps, Azure Virtual Machines, and Neon Serverless Postgres on Azure.
The GitHub Copilot Chat extension is now open source.
According to Media reports, Microsoft plans to continue utilising OpenAI’s technology under its existing commercial agreement, which is set to expire in 2030.
The 330 million parameter model was trained using Azure’s A100 GPUs and fine-tuned through a multi-phase process.
Over three years, Amazon saw the highest rise in emissions, at 182%, followed by Microsoft (155%), Meta (145%), and Alphabet (138%).
The AI-powered video generation capability can be accessed on mobile devices through Microsoft’s Bing app and will soon be available for desktop users.
The collaboration supports the IndiaAI Mission and brings low-latency, secure AI solutions to sectors such as healthcare, finance, retail, and manufacturing.
‘Writing new code is just one small part of the job. The rest of a developer’s day is packed with designing systems, digging through docs, debugging, refactoring, and wrestling with legacy code.’
Magentic-UI is powered by AutoGen’s Magentic-One system and includes five specialised agents, namely, Orchestrator, WebSurfer, Coder, FileSurfer, and UserProxy.
From sandstorms to cyclones, Aurora predicts the weather with precision and forecasts a broad range of environmental events
Hugging Face now hosts close to 2 million models and supports over 8 million developers.
The company will integrate AI capabilities directly into the core of VS Code, bringing them into the same open source repo that powers the world’s most loved developer tool.
“WSL could never have been what it is today without its community.”
Microsoft announced an early preview of Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration in Windows 11, positioning it as a foundational layer for secure and interoperable agentic computing.
Twilio SIGNAL promises to empower more than 10 million Twilio developers alongside thousands of Microsoft-managed customers to build the future of AI-driven customer interactions.
The layoffs come despite Microsoft reporting $25.8 billion in quarterly net income and providing an upbeat forecast in late April.
While some say AI-driven efficiency is behind the layoffs, others cite the cost of building AI infrastructure that is making companies reduce headcount.
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