Microsoft pitches Work IQ to feed agents enterprise context and Agent 365 to govern them.
“Context is the key to an effective agent.”
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PepsiCo partnered with Microsoft to build an agentic AI solution on a unified lakehouse data platform.
“so many companies believe if they don't have the right data infrastructure, the right data, the right secure data, quality data, AI projects are kind of doomed to fail”
Microsoft Foundry lets developers deploy advanced code-based agents via a layered runtime, intelligence, and collaboration stack.
“you can kind of choose the level of simplicity or control that you want for your agents”
Azure introduces agentic AI tools like a resiliency agent in Copilot and Azure MCP to discover and mitigate resiliency gaps.
“in the real world failures are not an exception. They are expected.”
AMD's developer acceleration team is introducing playbooks and ROCm 'lemonade routers' to speed agentic AI coding on Windows AI PCs.
“I really want to talk about fundamental shift that's happening underneath that that's enabling those playbooks and experiences.”
Microsoft unveils improved topological qubit material and a new quantum processing unit, paired with an AI-quantum-HPC stack for scientific discovery.
“We're happy to announce that we develop much better material that gives us enormous improvement in lifetime. And we also built a new quantum processing unit with this”
Azure Boards and Pipelines users can now harness GitHub Copilot's Cloud Agent without migrating off Azure DevOps.
“Now, users of Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines can now really harness the agentic power of GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent in their work.”
On-device AI inference on Intel Panther Lake NPUs eliminates per-token cloud cost and latency for agentic systems.
“every token has a round trip. It has latency. It is a cost item associated with it.”
Visual Studio remains the premier tool for professional C#/C++ developers in the agentic AI era.
“it is the tool for professional C# and C++ developers on Windows.”
Your job is no longer to build software faster, but to help your coding agent build software faster by closing the loop.
“it's all about closing the loop”
Fireworks AI's managed inference and training service is now available on Microsoft Azure.
“Fireworks is a managed service where we do both AI inference performance as well as AI training all as a managed service that you can now use on Microsoft Azure.”
Azure's Fairwater AI data centers in Wisconsin and Atlanta use liquid cooling and dense networking to power AI workloads.
“You can see there's enough cabling to wrap the earth four times in one of these.”
Hugging Face expands EVA-Bench to 3 domains, 121 tools, and 213 scenarios for agent evaluation.
Visual Studio adds AI agent workflows to its profiler for finding and fixing performance bugs.
Microsoft's local AI stack for Windows is now generally available, enabling on-device inference across 1 billion PCs with no cloud, tokens, or network.
“shifting from always running your AI workloads in the cloud to running them locally using just the hardware on everyday PCs and only going to the cloud when your workload truly needs it”
Microsoft introduces Rayfin, a code-defined backend SDK/CLI that deploys to Microsoft Fabric for the agentic coding era.
“Rayfen is the back-end for this new AI coding era.”
Microsoft's Azure Linux is a Fedora-upstream distro adding enterprise reliability, compliance, and predictable patch cadence for Azure.
“So you get a lot of that upstream open source innovation and that upstream open source speed, but with the programmatic reliability that customers want for Azure.”
.NET Aspire is being extended to simplify building and deploying agent-based distributed apps.
“The latest way we've been talking about Aspire is that any modern distributed app you could pick anything out of any of these boxes.”
GitHub Copilot is expanding 'anywhere' via remote control CLI sessions and cloud execution sandboxes for developer choice.
“your best ideas don't always come from when you're sitting behind the computer”
Coding tools are converging on an 'agent command center' form factor as agent supervision becomes the core skill.
“the level of abstraction is really shifting from managing individual agents”
Oracle and Microsoft launched MCP servers for Oracle AI Database@Azure to accelerate AI app development with GitHub Copilot.
Microsoft's Foundry IQ connects AI agents to enterprise knowledge via agentic retrieval.
“Foundry IQ is the thing you use to connect agents to knowledge.”
Microsoft Foundry offers a single hub for pre-built and third-party agent tools with enterprise-grade scalability.
“Tool calling is what enables your agent to perform an action, and this is how your agents provide real business value.”
Azure announces Container App Sandboxes, a private preview of fast, isolated, stateful infrastructure for running AI agents.
“introducing Azure Container App Sandboxes. This is a private preview of fast, isolated, and stateful infrastructure on demand.”