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Find longer articles in the blog, explore a topic through the guides, or browse earlier news.SkillOpt trains agent skills as editable artifacts, not model weights
SkillOpt is a Microsoft Research project and arXiv paper that treats natural-language agent skills as trainable external state, using scored rollouts, bounded edits, and held-out validation instead of model fine-tuning.
Read updateZoomMate turns meeting context into governed post-meeting workflows
ZoomMate is generally available in North America as a $20-per-user Zoom AI work surface for turning meeting conversations into search, workflow actions, and finished deliverables across enterprise apps.
Read updateGitHub Copilot Sandboxes Put Agent Command Execution Behind Local and Cloud Isolation
GitHub Copilot's new public-preview sandboxes give Copilot CLI local and cloud isolation for agent-run shell commands, with policy controls, cross-device cloud sessions, and usage-based cloud billing.
Read updateNVIDIA Cosmos 3 gives robotics teams an open world model stack to test
NVIDIA launched Cosmos 3, an open physical-AI world model family for reasoning, world generation, and action generation. The practical question is whether robotics and vision teams should test it as a synthetic-data and simulation layer before collecting more real-world data.
Read updateMicrosoft Build 2026 puts agent context, Scout, and MAI models into one developer stack
Microsoft used Build 2026 to frame its agent platform around Microsoft IQ, the Scout personal agent, new MAI models, Frontier Tuning, Agent 365, and local or cloud sandboxes for agent execution.
Read updateGitHub Copilot app opens wider as Copilot CLI adds scheduled prompts
GitHub widened the Copilot app technical preview to existing paid Copilot customers and updated Copilot CLI with experimental scheduled prompts, voice input, rubber duck review, and a redesigned terminal UI.
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