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Fara1.5 – A family of frontier computer use agent models

May 21, 2026

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MagenticLite, MagenticBrain, Fara1.5: An agentic experience optimized for small models

May 21, 2026 | Microsoft Research AI Frontiers

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MagenticLite: A full-stack agentic experience powered by Small Models

May 14, 2026 | Harkirat Behl, Weili Shi, Hussein Mozannar

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SocialReasoning-Bench: Measuring whether AI agents act in users’ best interests

May 11, 2026 | Tyler Payne, Will Epperson, Safoora Yousefi, Zachary Huang, Gagan Bansal, Wenyue Hua, Maya Murad, Asli Celikyilmaz (opens in new tab), Saleema Amershi

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Whimsical Strategies Break AI Agents: Generating Out-of-Distribution Adversarial Strategies at Scale

May 6, 2026

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Webwright: A Terminal Is All You Need For Web Agents

May 4, 2026

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Red-teaming a network of agents: Understanding what breaks when AI agents interact at scale

April 30, 2026 | Gagan Bansal, Shujaat Mirza, Keegan Hines, Will Epperson, Zachary Huang, Whitney Maxwell, Pete Bryan, Tyler Payne, Adam Fourney, Amanda Swearngin, Wenyue Hua, Tori Westerhoff (opens in new tab), Amanda Minnich, Maya Murad, Ece Kamar, Ram Shankar Siva Kumar, Saleema Amershi

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The Art of Building Verifiers for Computer Use Agents

April 21, 2026

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Ideas: Steering AI toward the work future we want

April 9, 2026

New Future of Work 2026 | Jaime Teevan, Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman, Rebecca Janssen

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Memento: Teaching LLMs to Manage Their Own Context

April 8, 2026

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