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So that’s the future of Windows Microsoft is selling right now: deep integration for AI agents to use apps on your PC, if you want, and more ways for app developers to create AI features that use your PC’s hardware rather than cloud servers. Now all that’s left is to see how it all shapes up in reality.

Microsoft recently laid off about 3% of its workforce — some 6,000 people. A big chunk of those were reportedly software engineers, aka coders.

At Microsoft Build, Microsoft lays out what agents and agentic AI will mean for Copilot and you, with updated apps and a future where AI can control functions on your PC.

In the spirit of a technology developed by AI company Anthropic, Microsoft sees the future of AI where there are lots of different systems, created by lots of different companies, all working together, in peace and harmony. Or to put it in the same words that Microsoft used, create an "agentic web".

“You need to know good at what it’s not… it’s a mix of tooling that you will use to transform your business process.” Microsoft’s enterprise AI strategy positions it to lead the next ...

Neowin noticed that the latest version of the Copilot app (1.25044.93.0) has planted a new choice to invoke Copilot when working with certain files on your Windows 11 desktop.

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the USC School of Advanced Computing and the Keck School of Medicine, working alongside experts from the Microsoft AI for Good Lab, Amref Health Africa, and Kenya's Ministry of Health,

Researchers created an AI model to predict child malnutrition in Kenya six months in advance using clinical and satellite data.

It was all about AI agents at Microsoft's Build developer conference, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joining to talk about the future of AI coding.