The Hallway Track
Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.
Microsoft unveiled a multimodel agentic scanning harness that connects code to runtime security via Defender for Cloud and GitHub.
“It's a multimodel agentic scanning harness... AI agents that just don't flag problems, but actually help you fix them at the speed you're already shipping code.”
Microsoft's Agent 365 SDK lets developers make any agent enterprise-ready with built-in identity, governance, observability, and security.
“An agent is not an app. It's an actor with its own brain.”
Microsoft Purview extends data security and compliance controls to enterprise AI apps and agents.
“82% of our leaders expect to deploy agents in the next 12 to 18 months”
Claude Opus 4.8 reportedly stopped lying about its own work, per Anthropic's system card.
“I did the fix, but two tests still fail.”
Microsoft AI shipped seven first-party models including MAI Thinking One, its first frontier reasoning model.
“We call our approach humanist superintelligence.”
Microsoft pitches migrating Oracle and PostgreSQL workloads to managed Postgres on Azure at Build 2026.
“OpenAI is a good example. Um, they're willing to bet their production workloads on manage Postgress running on Azure.”
Azure SQL Hyperscale can consolidate vector, graph, document, and analytics workloads to avoid polyglot database tax.
“When I say poly cloud tax, I mean having having the tax that you pay for choosing multiple databases.”
OpenAI's Codex Spark, a faster Codex variant on Cerebras inference, enables real-time interactive coding and multi-agent workflows.
“Codex Spark is a lighter, faster version of Codex running on Cerebrus inference.”
Uno Platform Studio adds AI and visual design tools, including MCP support, to build cross-platform .NET apps.
“Let us bring the context that AI desperately needs. And we do that through MCP tools model context protocol.”
Running AI SRE agents on all enterprise alerts naively costs ~$730,000/year, driven mostly by input-token costs.
“these are all driven by the cost on input tokens”
Windows is raising its security baseline by removing legacy NTLM, enforcing code trust by default, and preparing for post-quantum cryptography.
“We're raising the security baseline in Windows so you can rely on stronger defaults and your customers stay safer out of the box.”
Omni agent API ships real-time multimodal video agents on Azure at 1 cent per render minute.
“The omni agent API runs at only 1 cent per render minute when you bring your own LLM. That's roughly 20 times cheaper than the alternatives.”
Microsoft's Fabric IQ unifies enterprise data and semantics so humans and AI agents operate as one real-time system.
“People and AI operating as one system in real time, turning unified data into unified intelligence. This is Microsoft Fabric.”
Microsoft is bringing agentic development with AI agents, skills, and MCP servers to Power BI and Fabric creators.
“it's a way to use a genetic experiences with AI agents, skills and MCP servers to help do all of those different creator activities that you know and love today but with the power of AI using LLMs.”
AI is reshaping the data engineer role across Fabric, VS Code, and CLI workflows.
“AI is changing the way that engineers work, not just by generating code, but by helping us rethink the full developer workflow across Fabric, VS Code and CLI.”
Azure Logic Apps is evolving from an enterprise integration platform into an AI agentic automation platform announced at Build.
“logic apps is evolving from an enterprise proven integration platform to an AI automation platform”
Microsoft built Azure DocumentDB by open-sourcing its managed MongoDB-compatible, Postgres-backed engine and feeding learnings back into the service.
“we started with a managed service, went back into building an open source engine from the managed service, but then funneled all of our open-source learnings from the project back into the managed service”
Azure Managed Redis offers semantic caching and vector storage to power faster AI and RAG apps at internet scale.
“Azure managed Reddus is also able to power your rag scenarios and you can also use it as a light lightweight vector data store as well.”
Azure Cosmos DB enables reliable multi-agent AI apps by storing memories and vector-searchable metadata across the user journey.
“In the beginning, the latency and personalization is the most important... Whereas in the back half, consistency and reliability become more important.”
Microsoft unveils Cobalt 200, its next-gen Azure ARM silicon, building on Cobalt 100's price-performance gains.
“It is Azure's own silicon purpose-built for the cloud and it is reshaping the price performance conversation for our customers.”
Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse is being positioned as an AI-ready unified data platform with agentic capabilities.
“What's different now is the shift to AIdriven andogentic experiences.”
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind with enhanced biological reasoning for life sciences research.
Microsoft predicts over a billion AI agents will join the workforce as full-fledged employees within two years, powered by Fabric.
“we are now predicting over a billion agents joining the workforce over the next two years”
Microsoft positions OneLake as the unified, open-format data lake for the AI age across all data estates.
“One lake if you can think of it that way is the one drive for data.”