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Microsoft updated its Copilot with “”Pages,”” a ChatGPT Canvas-like feature It allows users to collaborate with Copilot, asking the assistant to tweak, expand, or polish its responses Notable it doesn’t seem to have coding capabilities like Canvas https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1921597040905097496
CEO Satya Nadella says up to 30% of Microsoft’s code is now written by AI | TechSpot https://www.techspot.com/news/107749-ceo-satya-nadella-up-30-microsoft-code-now.html
Rowan Cheung on X: “Microsoft announced it’s embracing Google’s Agent2Agent protocol, bringing it soon to Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio A2A will allow Microsoft’s customers to build agentic applications that interoperate and work together across platforms by design https://t.co/BeospxLvVT” / X
https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1920384544336715776
Microsoft announced X-REASONER Towards Generalizable Reasoning Across Modalities and Domains https://x.com/_akhaliq/status/1920752791405863000
Agents are evolving from single-use bots to collaborative systems. The open Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, coming soon to Azure AI Foundry and Microsoft Copilot Studio, makes it possible. Learn more: https://x.com/MSCloud/status/1920147789977125229
This was one of Microsoft’s big advantages: Copilot worked well with Sharepoint. Now it looks like Deep Research does as well…”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1922128609847746676
Microsoft also announced it’s adopting Google’s Agent2Agent (A2A) framework, launching it soon on Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio The move will enable enterprises to develop AI agents that interoperate across platforms by design https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1921597063478817247
Microsoft dropped Pages, a new Copilot feature that allows users to collaborate with the AI assistant on answers It works pretty much like ChatGPT Canvas, but doesn’t seem to have coding capabilities https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1921815704900112546
If you’re a good data engineer, or an engineer who loves looking at data creating datasets for games, video, images, audio, text … please send me a message here or on LinkedIn. We still have plenty of data jobs at @MicrosoftAI – but hurry 😅”” / X https://x.com/NandoDF/status/1922362860820165019
OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft for new funding and future IPO, FT reports | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-negotiates-with-microsoft-unlock-new-funding-future-ipo-ft-reports-2025-05-11/
Microsoft and OpenAI may be renegotiating their partnership | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/11/microsoft-and-openai-may-be-renegotiating-their-partnership/
Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/08/microsoft-employees-are-banned-from-using-deepseek-app-president-says/
Tencent hires WizardLM team, a Microsoft AI group with an odd history | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/tencent-hires-wizardlm-team-a-microsoft-ai-group-with-an-odd-history/
In talking to smart people in the real world it is clear how much how the AI labs have undermined use with naming & unclear instructions: “Why is 4o sometimes worse than o3, the number is higher?” “If I want to give it data, should I use a PDF or Excel?” “What does Canvas mean?””” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1922355618918048172
Predicting and explaining AI model performance: A new approach to evaluation – Microsoft Research https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/predicting-and-explaining-ai-model-performance-a-new-approach-to-evaluation/
Microsoft is getting ready to host Elon Musk’s Grok AI model | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/659535/microsoft-elon-musk-grok-ai-azure-ai-foundry-notepad
