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Microsoft's Apache-2.0 4B agent model chooses GUI actions or shell commands each turn and reports 66.0% on 361 OSWorld-Verified tasks.
Microsoft AI's MAI Image 2.7 launches in preview for edits like relighting and text changes, and says it ranks No. 3 on Arena's edit board.
MAI-DxO solved 83% of hard NEJM cases on Microsoft's own benchmark against 22% to 36% for physicians. A Beth Israel study will test it on real patients.
Microsoft says a China-aligned group used ARTEX agents after the ConnectWise Cloud Backup breach, trying 2,250+ Microsoft 365 tenants. What to check.
Scope, an MIT-licensed research preview, gives Copilot and Claude Code one task, scores runs on a criteria graph with an LLM Judge, and keeps the evidence.
Editing Copilot Studio agents inside Teams ends in January 2027 and the app leaves Teams in February. Agent management moves to the Copilot Studio web app.
Microsoft's 15 October post says MAI-Base-2 pre-training is finished. Business Insider reports a staff remark that it beat the model behind GPT-5.6 Sol.
Microsoft says Copilot for legal is generally available for Microsoft 365 Copilot commercial licenses. Word desktop turns the plugin on by default.
A 13 October Xbox post says a small Xbox Labs group will turn emerging ideas into things players can try. It also says Xbox will keep stewarding its IP.
Scott Guthrie says Azure Maia 300, Microsoft's third in-house inference chip, begins production deployments in 2027 and is meant to be the company's main inference system. The efficiency figures are Microsoft's.
Microsoft is putting Word, Excel and PowerPoint inside the Copilot app for Frontier customers. A prompt can open a real Office file beside the chat. The post gives no price or general release date.
The Register reports a Norwegian startup billed about $17,600 for Claude in Microsoft Foundry after assuming its startup credits applied. Each vendor's support pointed it to the other for a refund.
WSL 3.0.1 shipped on 29 September with WSL containers out of preview: a wslc.exe CLI (alias container.exe) and a containers API on NuGet. Here is what to run, how to update, and what 3.0.2 adds.
Microsoft says Execution Containers are generally available, with a JSON policy for files and network destinations enforced at runtime. Entra agent identity and Agent 365 controls are still described as coming soon.
Microsoft opened pre-orders on 7 October for Surface Laptop Ultra at $2,599.99 and the RTX Spark Dev Box from $5,999.99. Laptop Ultra availability starts 16 October.
Microsoft says GitHub Copilot will, by the end of October, choose local or cloud models per task, and let developers pick a local model. On-device MAI Code 1.1 Flash figures are Microsoft's own tests.
Microsoft's September 23 Surface launch never says Copilot+ PC, and a Surface executive told Windows Central the new machines are not called that, though Microsoft has announced no formal retirement.
