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Agents2026-06-08 · source-backed
At Build 2026, Microsoft introduced Autopilots, always-on agents that hold their own identity and act on your behalf, with Scout as the first, shipping for Windows 11+ and macOS 12+. Hosted Agents in Foundry hit GA by end of June with hypervisor-isolated environments, per-agent Entra ID, and built-in content safety. Per-agent identity and runtime isolation moving into the platform layer is the right direction. An agent with its own Entra ID is auditable in a way a shared service account never was.
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Nothing AI-specific (The Register), but it's the kind of thing that silently kills a scheduled agent run on a Windows host. If a pipeline started failing this week for no apparent reason, this is a candidate. ---
microsoft/skill-recorder (2,233 stars since July 29, pushing daily) is an Electron app that records clicks, window switches and optional narration, then uses the GitHub Copilot CLI to reconstruct the session as an intent plus ordered steps. The design choice that matters: gene...
Ars Technica quotes researchers describing it as a "powerful primitive" likely chainable into paths beyond the initially demonstrated exploitation. If you're running Windows build agents or dev VMs, this is patch-now rather than patch-next-Tuesday. Build agents are a particula...
Alongside the MAI models at Build 2026, Microsoft put MXC into preview, enterprise-grade sandboxed environments for running agents. Source: Microsoft Blog Read it next to the RCE story and Willison's WASM sandbox. Everyone's converging on the same conclusion at once: agents ne...
Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash at Build, its first model that turns written descriptions into source code for apps and websites, explicitly aimed at lowering developer costs and cutting its dependence on OpenAI (CNBC). Same week, Google pushed Gemini 3.5 Flash to general...
Windows Latest covered the September 5 post from Fowler, an 18-year Microsoft veteran who leads Aspire, arguing developers now own architecture, testing, performance and security review while agents produce code. Supporting numbers in the coverage: Nadella's 20-30% AI-written...
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