In the news | The Wall Street Journal
When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works
Nontra Yantaprasert couldn’t wait to take her husband’s shorter and easier-to-pronounce last name. She didn’t know what kinds of problems it would cause. His last name is Null, the same word used by computer scientists to mean “no value” or…
Introducing Muse: Our first generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation
| Katja Hofmann
Today Nature published Microsoft’s research detailing our WHAM, an AI model that generates video game visuals & controller actions. We are releasing the model weights, sample data, & WHAM Demonstrator on Azure AI Foundry, enabling researchers to build on the…
Ideas: Quantum computing redefined with Chetan Nayak
| Gretchen Huizinga and Dr. Chetan Nayak
Microsoft announced the creation of the first topoconductor and first QPU architecture with a topological core. Dr. Chetan Nayak, a technical fellow of Quantum Hardware at the company, discusses how the breakthroughs are redefining the field of quantum computing.
In the news | TheSequence
One of the Best Agent Frameworks in the Market Just Got Way Better
AutoGen has undergone significant evolution since its inception, driven by the need for more efficient, flexible, and scalable agentic AI systems. The release of AutoGen v0.4 introduces a fundamental architectural shift, addressing prior inefficiencies and enhancing its capabilities.
In the news | The Pragmatic Engineer
Developer productivity with Dr. Nicole Forsgren (creator of DORA, co-creator of SPACE)
Nicole is one of the foremost experts in developer productivity, and author of the book Accelerate. She details how to think about, measure & improve developer productivity.
In the news | Social Media Fails Many Users. Experts Have an Idea to Fix It
Remaking “Prosocial” Media
E. Glen Weyl and his coauthors have proposed a new "prosocial" structure for social media, where posts are flagged with the context of where they are socially accepted and users can navigate to see opposing perspectives on divisive issues.
In the news | Github Blog
New GPT-4o Copilot code completion model available now in public preview for Copilot in VSCode
A new code completion model, GPT-4o Copilot, can now be enabled by VS Code users (opens in new tab). This new model based on GPT-4o mini has additional training on over 275,000 high-quality public repositories in over 30 popular programming languages. As…
In the news | Science News Explores
High-speed lasers write data — to last millennia — inside glass
The library, robot, laser, microscope and platters of glass are all part of a research program named Project Silica. Richard Black directs this project at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. “Project Silica is a new approach to storing data,” he…
In the news | Oceanographic
Artificial intelligence is now used to locate ghost nets in the ocean
Every year, 20% of all fishing gear in the world’s oceans is lost and an estimated 50,000 tons of lost fishing nets or ‘ghost nets’ end up in the oceans, posing a danger to a variety of marine wildlife. To…