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Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This milestone indicates that the API surface is stable and feature-complete ...

Just like algae blooms in the ocean and pollen in the spring, there’s been an explosion in the past year or two of new software, related tools and lingo from the IT and mainstream/consumer side. Some ...

Anthropic research shows developers using AI assistance scored 17% lower on comprehension tests when learning new coding ...

Speechify's Voice AI Research Lab Launches SIMBA 3.0 Voice Model to Power Next Generation of Voice AI SIMBA 3.0 represents a major step forward in production voice AI. It is built voice-first for ...

Bruno, Fx, ActivityWatch, DDEV, and TLDR Pages are all dev tools that you should try out because they're much better than ...

W3C proposal backed by Google and Microsoft allows developers to expose client-side JavaScript tools to AI agents, enabling ...

Google’s Chrome team previews WebMCP, a proposed web standard that lets websites expose structured tools for AI agents instead of relying on screen scraping.

Google and Microsoft's new WebMCP standard lets websites expose callable tools to AI agents through the browser — replacing ...

David Nield is a technology journalist from Manchester in the U.K. who has been writing about gadgets and apps for more than 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Durham ...

Spraying a fast-drying clear coat onto a vehicle at Flow Lexus in Kernersville, N.C. There’s an iron law in the paint business: The faster it dries, the worse it looks. But then AI took a crack at it.

Empowering education systems, educators, and students to thrive in the AI-era. Classrooms are places of possibility where curiosity meets knowledge, and potential becomes reality. At Microsoft, we’ve ...