Microsoft announced the Azure Functions serverless agents runtime in public preview at Build 2026, turning the event-driven compute service into a platform for building and hosting AI agents. The ...

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Microsoft has moved its Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Azure Functions to General Availability, signaling a shift toward standardized, identity-secure agentic workflows. By integrating ...

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Editor's take: Microsoft is doubling down on its plan to turn Windows 11 into an "agentic AI" platform, and in the process seems determined to strip away the last bits of user agency left in the OS.

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web content, aiming to prevent potentially risky code from executing. As Microsoft ...

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As agent-based AI systems grow more sophisticated, developers are moving well beyond basic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) into a new era of autonomous, tool-integrated, and multi-agent ...

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