Why cloud-native and multi-agent are converging The shift from "a chatbot" to "a fleet of workers" A single LLM call is a stateless function: text in, text out. A multi-agent system is something ...

We just concluded Microsoft IQ Deep Dive with Python, a three-part livestream series all about Microsoft IQ. We showed how to use the four IQs to ground your AI applications and agents: Work IQ...

July was a clean-up-and-level-up month. Four releases shipped for the Foundry Toolkit for VS Code: 1.6.3, 1.6.4, 1.6.5, and 1.6.6. The theme this month wasn't a single headline feature — it was mak...

Ever shopped online and felt like the app had no idea who you are? You browse jackets every week, you told the chatbot you hate polyester, and yet it keeps showing you the same generic recommendation...

A practical, engineer-to-engineer guide to taking an AI agent from a developer laptop, into Microsoft Foundry Agent Service, and out to end users inside Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 — using the ...

The AI bill is higher than expected. Now what?   Finance wants to understand what is driving the cost. Engineering leaders, on the other hand, want to preserve the productivity gains behind the i...

There is a quiet standardization happening underneath the AI agent boom, and it has a name: the Model Context Protocol (MCP). If you build agents, wire tools into Copilot, or ship anything that lets ...

Building a Microsoft Foundry hosted agent has historically meant juggling multiple surfaces — looking up a model deployment in the Foundry portal, wiring toolboxes and skills by hand, copying an endp...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is the open standard for connecting AI models to tools and data. It was first introduced to the world by Anthropic in November 2024, and is now the most widely adopte...