Microsoft's Copilot AI system is getting more control over Windows and local files, as part of the company's Hybrid Intelligence concept.

The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed. Microsoft ThinkingBox grades AI agents on the records they leave behind, not the sentences they generate, and then asks whether they can do it twenty times in a row.

Takeaways − DeBERTa-v3-small is a 44M-parameter English encoder with a 128K vocabulary from Microsoft Research. Uses ELECTRA-style replaced-token-detection training instead of masked language modeling for better sample efficiency.

At a glance End-to-end forecasting: A machine learning pipeline uses forecast-time solar-wind information to generate location-specific risk estimates for…

At a glance Quine (opens in new tab) is a research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology and an interactive harness connecting models,…

On July 24, 2025, Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore (MSRA – Singapore) opened its doors as Microsoft’s first research lab in Southeast Asia.

Most tools give you a fixed set of screens and ask you to fit your work into them.

Author(s): Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ Originally published on Towards AI.

Broad refactors and migrations often have to land as one change. Stacked pull requests are a great way to split work into smaller changes, which makes reviews…

At a glance Challenges a core assumption in robotics AI: Our research shows that running physical AI inference exclusively on onboard GPUs can limit robot…

Pinecone BYOC: Trusted AI Knowledge in the Customer Cloud Today, we are announcing the general availability of Pinecone Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, bringing Pinecone’s trusted AI knowledge platform to where enterprise data needs to live. AI becomes transformative when it works with a company’s proprietary knowledge.

At a glance We report on the recent publication of our retrosynthesis model RetroChimera in the journal Nature (opens in new tab).

The GitHub Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app, and GitHub Copilot SDK are all backed by the Copilot agent runtime, an agentic harness that can be embedded into…

When an agent makes a change to your code, you want to review it, run it, and see what changed.

Global conflicts, shifting tariffs, trade disruptions and regulatory uncertainty are forcing companies worldwide to rethink how they manage supply chains. For many, the challenge is not only moving goods from one place to another but understanding, in real time, how a disruption in one part of the world could ripple through factories, suppliers, inventory, transportation costs and customer demand.

Two years ago, Kier Group plc decided to embrace AI – with a little help from work friends and peers. Executives at the UK construction and infrastructure firm were excited by AI’s promise to boost productivity and enhance safety practices.

At a glance The Flash family extends GigaPath and GigaTIME with dramatically improved efficiency, making large-scale pathology research more accessible and…

Over the past few weeks, we have announced several important steps to expand sovereign AI by increasing access to local infrastructure capacity. Earlier this summer, we announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft to increase compute capacity in Europe.

At a glance Skala 1.1 demonstrates the continuously improving nature of Microsoft Research’s deep-learning DFT approach: trained on 2.5× more data than…

At a glance MindTopo is a new benchmark for testing topological reasoning in AI, evaluating whether multimodal models can understand concepts such as…

Research Note: CARE-X is a research model and not a Microsoft product offering or medical device.

Imagine an office worker clicking on a phishing link at 2:13 a.m. As the IT team sleeps, an AI agent detects unusual login behavior and disables the compromised account.

Artificial intelligence is already helping clinicians spot patterns in diagnostic images and detect signs of disease. But many of today’s pathology AI systems are built for a single task and must be rebuilt for each new application.

At a glance Orchard is an open-source framework for scalable and cost-effective agentic AI research, built around Orchard Env, a reusable environment service…

Much of what AI knows about the world comes from data most people never see and from technical processes that determine what’s included or left out. As AI becomes increasingly influential in daily life, a new platform aims to help communities participate in that foundation being built behind the scenes to ensure they’re portrayed accurately and fairly, especially in imagery.

AI workloads are scaling faster than any single infrastructure approach can support — with more models, new agent-driven workloads and surging compute demand driving the need for greater specialization across the stack. To meet this need, Microsoft continues to evolve Azure’s infrastructure, including expanding its AI fleet with AMD’s most advanced AI and high-performance computing (HPC) solutions.

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opened to the public on July 4. He led the Rough Riders, became the youngest U.S. president and inspired the teddy bear — but Theodore Roosevelt probably never imagined anything like this.

Cancer treatment has gotten more precise over time, as doctors first classified the disease by where it began in the body and, more recently, by the mutations found inside cancer cells to help find the right drugs to treat it. But why can two people with seemingly similar cancers respond so differently to the same medication?

AI has arrived in the enterprise, and the shift is happening all at once. Every function, every role, every workflow is being reshaped. At the same time, a new class of organizations is emerging, one that will look fundamentally different from the companies that defined the last era of business.