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Microsoft Agent Framework is at Python 1.22 and .NET 1.25: Harness agents, functional workflows, channels, and why AutoGen users should migrate now.

Copilot for Word AI worm: hidden prompts in a Word document hijack Copilot, alter financial data and self-propagate across documents. What HN thinks.

An open letter from Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and 30+ signers defends open-weight AI models. What it argues, who stayed out, and how HN reacted.

Resource2Skill, a Microsoft paper, turns tutorials, repos, articles, and reference artifacts into executable agent skills with provenance. What to copy from it.

Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) sandbox AI agents with JSON policies on Windows, Linux and macOS. The TypeScript SDK, backends and setup.

Microsoft Agent Framework unifies AutoGen and Semantic Kernel in one SDK: architecture, installation, migration, pricing, and when to pick it over LangGraph.

Microsoft Work IQ APIs give agents pre-assembled, permission-trimmed Microsoft 365 context. What the domains, protocols and pricing mean for developers.

Microsoft's MAI models from Build 2026, including MAI-Code-1-Flash in GitHub Copilot. What the MoE designs, benchmarks and rollout mean for your toolchain.

MAI-Code-1-Flash, Microsoft's in-house coding model, signals Copilot becoming a routing layer for cost, latency, and review quality. A routing matrix to steal.

Modern browser automation from Microsoft. Auto-wait, role-based selectors, cross-browser, fast in CI.

Microsoft PHI-4 is an MIT-licensed 14B model that matches Llama 3.3 70B on key benchmarks. See its specs, how to run it locally with Ollama, and when to use it.