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At Build 2026 Microsoft unveiled Majorana 2, a next‑generation quantum chip, and a broad set of agentic AI platform updates — from Discovery moving to general availability to new runtimes, tooling, and cloud and local

Zavarovalnica Triglav has rolled out Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot agents across its 5,000+ employees, supported by 40 digital mentors and governance controls, to speed back‑office work, legal drafting and claims

Microsoft EVP Jay Parikh argues that India’s developer scale, fast enterprise adoption and mature digital public infrastructure are enabling a shift from AI pilots to large — scale production;

Microsoft South Africa and the Youth Employment Service’s YES × Microsoft AI Skills Initiative won the Tech Impact Award at Sentech Africa Tech Week in Cape Town after its first year of delivering AI and digital

Researchers synthesized tetragonal tantalum phosphorus (TaP) identified by MatterSim‑v1 and measured its thermal conductivity at 152 W/m/K-close to silicon.

At SAP Sapphire 2026 Microsoft and SAP announced an Azure‑centered set of initiatives aimed at moving enterprise AI from pilots into production, centered on a shared Frontier Transformation vision and a new Microsoft IQ

An experimental stack — MagenticLite (harness/UI), MagenticBrain (planner/coder) and the Fara1.

Vega is a Rust‑built proof system that generates zero‑knowledge proofs from government‑issued credentials on a user’s device in under 100 ms, requires no trusted setup, supports fold‑and‑reuse for repeated presentations,

On May 21, 2026 EY and Microsoft announced a joint investment of over $1 billion across five years to pair Microsoft engineers with EY practitioners, move AI deployments beyond pilots, and scale Copilot across EY’s

The paper’s authors issued a follow — up explaining that their study used the DELEGATE‑52 benchmark as a controlled stress test of long‑horizon delegated workflows, finding 19 — 34% semantic fidelity loss in evaluated

Microsoft says it has deepened its investment in PostgreSQL with 345 commits to the latest release, a team of upstream committers, and a portfolio of managed services and developer tools intended to bring AI capabilities

Thai schools are rolling out Microsoft AI features and a national educator — training drive that aims to certify more than 150,000 teachers this year;

Costa Rica’s Dos Pinos has rolled out about 80 narrowly scoped AI agents built with Copilot tools, including a packaging “AI inspector” created by creative lead Jhojan Rodríguez that went live in late 2025 and,

At Cosmos Conf 2026, speakers and customer sessions argued that AI workloads require schema flexibility, instant serverless scale, integrated semantic search, and agent‑friendly database interfaces — shaping the next

GridSFM is a lightweight foundation model that approximates AC optimal power flow (AC‑OPF) in milliseconds for transmission grids.

Porsche Cup Brasil deployed an AI-driven crash analysis workflow built on Azure services and Microsoft Foundry during the early 2026 season.

Researchers have released an open-data pipeline and dataset that create geographically grounded, electrically coherent transmission models across 48 U.S.

A new entry in the Azure IaaS series describes a defense‑in‑depth platform security model driven by Secure Future Initiative principles — secure by design, by default and in operation — covering hardware roots of trust,

Microsoft researchers and engineers will present 11 papers at NSDI ’26 (May 4–6) covering datacenter networking, disaggregated memory, optical traffic engineering, AI systems, and cloud infrastructure, and will also

Ory Mangiri, who began teaching in Nduga Regency in 2010, completed an AI for Educators program and the Microsoft Certified Educator exam and now uses Microsoft Copilot to design lesson plans and tailor materials

Microsoft has begun rolling out 'Xbox Mode' to Windows 11 PCs, including desktops, laptops, and tablets, in select markets.

A comprehensive study by Microsoft Research reveals that interconnected AI agent systems harbor unique, emergent risks that are absent when agents operate in isolation.

Microsoft has announced robust third — quarter results for fiscal year 2026, showcasing significant growth driven by its Cloud and AI segments, with the AI business alone surpassing an annual revenue run rate of $37 billion.

Microsoft has open-sourced PC — DOS 1.00, the foundational operating system for the original IBM Personal Computer, under a permissive MIT license, offering unprecedented insight into the early days of personal computing.