Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

New proprietary models reduce Microsoft's dependence on its biggest AI partner, even as the two maintain a fragile alliance.

Microsoft launches three in-house MAI models for transcription, voice and image generation through Foundry, hedging its ...

GRANGER, Ind. (WNDU) - Microsoft plans to break ground next month on a data center campus in Granger, according to St. Joseph County Councilmember Dan Schaetzle. Schaetzle made the comments during an ...

Microsoft Corp. and Meta Platforms Inc. each committed nearly $50 billion in additional data center leases in their most recent quarters, underscoring an escalating bet the tech industry is making on ...

KENT COUNTY, Mich. — Microsoft is looking to build a data center in Gaines Township along 76th Street near Patterson Avenue, on land that is currently primarily farmland — but the proposed site also ...

After a 10-month delay, Microsoft has begun work on its $1 billion data center projects in Catawba County. Several commercial building permits were issued to the tech giant between November and ...

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Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...

Researchers at Microsoft have created a data-storage system that can remain readable for at least 10,000 years — and probably much longer. In the digital age, the need for data storage is ballooning.