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 ...
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 ...
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 ...

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 ...