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Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...
The company has also previously introduced agents that are able to complete tasks, Cowork and Copilot Tasks.
Microsoft open-sources Harrier embeddings model to boost AI agent grounding, accuracy, and multilingual performance for the ...
The new open-source initiative is led by European vendors including Nextcloud, Proton, and Ionos, and built on existing open-source project OnlyOffice.
Microsoft has banned the developer accounts of high-profile open-source projects, leaving them unable to publish software ...
Microsoft has suspended developer accounts used to maintain multiple high-profile open-source projects without proper ...
Microsoft is testing OpenClaw-like capabilities within its Microsoft 365 Copilot suite rather than launching a separate ...
Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0 but Azure's agent stack still spans too many surfaces while Google and AWS offer cleaner developer paths.
Microsoft is exploring OpenClaw-like bots for Microsoft 365 Copilot, signaling a bigger push into enterprise AI agents, ...
Alexander Hagenah previously exposed issues affecting Windows Recall with his TotalRecall tool, prompting Microsoft to ...
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