Microsoft released ThinkingBox, an open-source, MCP-compatible sandbox and paired benchmark (ThinkingBox-Bench) that evaluates AI agents by the database state they actually change…
In August 2026, Microsoft moved multi-tenant AI agent management into public preview in the Microsoft 365 admin center, letting administrators see a consolidated inventory of AI a…
On August 17, 2026, Microsoft released Agent Lightning v1.0, an MIT-licensed, open-source reinforcement-learning framework that trains and optimizes AI agents without changing the…
On August 12, 2026, Microsoft AI moved MAI-Thinking-1, its first from-scratch reasoning model trained without distilling from OpenAI or other providers, into public preview in the…
On August 11, 2026 ZoomInfo announced its GTM data is integrated with Microsoft Copilot Studio and available in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Dynamics 365, Excel, and Word, via a GTM MCP…
On August 5, 2026 Visual Studio Code 1.132 shipped Agent Host, an architecture that runs AI agents in a separate process, fully isolated from the extension host, so a hung Copilot…
On July 27, 2026, Microsoft unveiled Project Perception, an agentic security system that coordinates red, blue, and green AI agents in a continuous loop to find vulnerabilities, t…
On July 21, 2026 Microsoft and Mistral expanded their strategic partnership, making Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 available in Microsoft Foundry, adding Mistral Medium 3.5 to Copil…
In mid-July 2026, Microsoft moved hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service to general availability, offering a managed runtime for agents that run for hours to weeks, with SLAs and…
On July 10, 2026, Microsoft released a public preview of Microsoft Agent Framework for Go, a Go implementation of its agent framework for building, orchestrating, and deploying AI…
Visual Studio Code 1.128, released July 8, 2026, lets a single Claude agent session hold multiple related chats so developers can compare approaches, branch from an earlier turn,…
On July 7, 2026, Microsoft announced general availability of Sales Agent and Service Agent, two AI agents that operate inside Microsoft 365 Copilot and Dynamics 365 and work on li…
Microsoft brought its Copilot Sales Agent to general availability in Microsoft 365 Copilot, letting sellers pull CRM and Microsoft 365 work data into the flow of work, and added A…
Microsoft made Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code available in public preview on Microsoft Foundry starting July 1, 2026, adding the open-weight, token-efficient coding model to its man…
In release 1.127 (July 1, 2026), Microsoft introduced sandboxing for terminal commands run by the VS Code agent on macOS and Linux: commands run with network access blocked and fi…
Microsoft’s pg_durable appeared in the June 8 AI infrastructure trends as an in-database durable execution project for PostgreSQL. The project is notable because durable workflows…
Microsoft Intelligent Terminal appeared in the June 6 Product Hunt digest as Windows Terminal with native agent integration. The signal shows OS-level terminal environments becomi…
Microsoft released MarkItDown 0.1.6 with an OCR layer service for embedded images and scanned PDFs, a fix for linear memory growth in PDF conversion, deeper security-posture docum…
The daily market brief on AI agents, developer tools, and platform systems: OpenAI Codex, AWS Agent Registry, Microsoft Foundry, Azure MCP, Anthropic, and Google are converging on…