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 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 ...

GRANGER, Ind. (WSBT) — Construction of the Microsoft data center in Granger could begin in late April or early May. The exact date of the ground breaking has not been released. St. Joseph County ...

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A Copilot setting lets the AI access data from other Microsoft products. The goal is to help personalize your Copilot conversations. You can disable this if you're worried about your privacy. Like ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...

Researchers at Microsoft have created a data-storage system that can remain readable for at least 10,000 years — and probably much longer. In the digital age, the need for data storage is ballooning.

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Microsoft today confirmed that customers will be able to run cloud workloads from its Saudi Arabia East datacenter region from Q4 2026, marking a major milestone in the company’s long-term investment ...

Microsoft’s MSFT-0.46%decrease; red down pointing triangle earnings surge failed to energize investors on Wednesday as it reported higher-than-expected spending on data centers and other AI ...

The focus of this new AI accelerator is inference— the production deployment of AI models in applications. Its architecture combines high compute performance with a newly designed memory system and a ...