Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights

Microsoft's SkillOpt brings deep-learning discipline to AI agent skills, replacing manual prompt tweaking with mathematically ...

Researchers trained an open source AI search agent, Harness-1, that outperforms GPT-5.4 on recalling relevant information

Harness-1 suggests that the future of agentic AI lies in building better environments for models to work within, rather than ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft open sources AI evaluation framework for enterprise agents

A new tool enters a growing AI testing market as analysts say most organizations still do not evaluate agent behavior before ...
Microsoft

Reconstructing AI activity in investigations

Learn how to investigate AI activity in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Azure AI services using a structured, telemetry-driven ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Developing Agentic Systems in .NET: From Concept to Code

ZioNet founder Alon Fliess previews his Visual Studio Live! San Diego session on building true agentic systems in .NET -- covering the cognitive loop, MCP tool integration, multi-agent orchestration ...
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Perplexity Lets AI Agents Write Their Own Search Code

Perplexity introduced Search as Code as a reference architecture for AI-written Python search workflows, following its 2025 real-time Search API. The new approach shifts the pitch from repeatedly ...