The Hallway Track
Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.
Combining SFT and DPO on SageMaker AI improves a small model's tool-calling accuracy for agents.
“When an agent picks the wrong tool, formats parameters incorrectly, or breaks a workflow chain, task completion times grow, error rates rise, support costs increase, and user experiences degrade.”
NVIDIA announces Nemotron open model family for agent orchestration on Azure AI Foundry with Microsoft.
“DeepSeek published open models that were able to reason. And in terms of open models, this was a breakthrough.”
A live Build demo session encourages developers new to agentic coding to start building with GitHub Copilot's agent modes.
Microsoft positions Foundry as an operating system for running self-improving AI agents at enterprise scale.
“agents are teammates, not tools.”
Claude Code defaults to agentic grep search, but semantic code retrieval yields measurable accuracy and retention gains.
“they just kind of found agentic search which is actually you know, grepping through your file system kind of worked better and you know, seems to work simpler for cloud code”
Microsoft demos AI building blocks for .NET via a Blazor support app orchestrating Microsoft Agent Framework and Nvidia Nemo agents with Aspire.
.NET MAUI in .NET 10/11 enables cross-platform edge AI apps with Copilot-boosted developer productivity.
“.NET Maui stands for .NET Multi-platform App UI, and that is our offering to build cross-platform amazing-looking apps on iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS through C# and .NET.”
Cursor uses online (real-time) RL only to polish already-shipped models, not build them from scratch.
“That's kind of the paradox of online RL or how we like to call it real time is that, you know, we can't use this to really create the model from scratch because users need to be using the model.”
Microsoft previews dotnetup (NetUp), a unified cross-platform tool for installing and managing .NET SDK versions.
“if you install .NET today, we think you fall into basically one of two buckets”
.NET 11 invests in enabling agentic web apps via ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and Agent Framework integration.
“We want ASP.NET Core and Blazor to be the best way to build agentic web apps.”
Microsoft's Dataverse skills plugin lets users perform governed Dataverse operations from coding agents using plain English.
“What if your developer, your operations analyst, and your admin could all describe what they need in plain English and get it done?”
DeepLearning.AI and Red Hat launch a course on efficient open-source LLM inference using vLLM.
“The techniques you learn in this course are what power efficient LM serving in production today.”
Azure Storage adds capabilities to make agentic AI inference faster, cheaper, and more secure by reducing GPU idle time via faster model loading.
“This talk is focused on inference, the dominant AI workload today, and the unique capabilities Azure storage brings to make agentic inference faster, cheaper, and more secure”
Hugging Face's LeLab is a no-code GUI for teleoperating robots, collecting data, training and deploying models.
“It lets you teleoperate the robots, collect the data set, train models both on your own hardware and with powerful GPUs available through hugging face.”
Bolt's Microsoft collaboration lets enterprises generate AI apps that deploy into governed Azure and M365 environments.
“Bolt is not just a faster way to generate an app, but it's a controlled path from idea to application.”
Azure SRE Agent autonomously acts on production incidents, shifting teams from noisy alerts to automated action.
“What happens when AI agents don't just observe incidents but actually act on them?”
Azure App Service introduces built-in MCP to expose existing APIs as AI-consumable tools.
“At this build event, we're introducing a new capability with inside Azure App Service called built-in MCP.”
Five strategies, including using Copilot agent to audit workflows, mitigate GitHub Actions supply chain risks.
“you can use copilot agent in your repository directly and ask it for evaluate uh your GitHub actions and find any potential vulnerabilities”
Real-time multimodal voice agents are bottlenecked by media infrastructure, not models, which LiveKit handles via WebRTC on Azure.
“You see models they are the easy part. Now everything around it is the hard part.”
Microsoft extends Foundry Local to run agentic AI fully disconnected for sovereign and enterprise environments.
“AI needs to be operated fully disconnected while still um delivering real time situational awareness and decision support.”
Microsoft Foundry portal lets developers build adaptable agentic AI apps using a microservices-style, per-agent approach.
“Agentic AI brings a microservices-based approach where every agent is a single unit of work that can be evolved independently without having to rewrite the entire system.”
Microsoft demos building agentic robots that run generative AI at the edge via Foundry Local and adaptive cloud.
“But the benefits from those advancements have not been evenly distributed.”
AI-native services companies will rebuild trillion-dollar industries like law, tax, and insurance by delivering outcomes rather than co-pilots.
“Some of the biggest companies of the next decade won't be software businesses at all. They'll be services companies like insurance carriers and law firms rebuilt from scratch with AI doing most of the work.”
Microsoft and Anthropic webinar shows how to unlock Claude in Microsoft Foundry to build enterprise agents.
“I help engineering teams that are putting Claude into production.”