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BUILD 2026 begins on Tuesday, June 2, and there will be tons of exciting announcements from the Microsoft Agent Framework team, Microsoft Foundry, and all things Microsoft AI. If you're traveling to San Francisco for BUILD, be sure to stop by the Microsoft Foundry booths to chat with folks from the Agent Framework team - there'll be stickers! If you can't make it to SF, you can still register online and check out the great sessions: Register for Microsoft Build Looking for sessions with Microsoft Agent Framework to watch online? Start with these breakout sessions. Times are shown in Pacific time; check the session page for the latest schedule. Session Date/time Speaker(s) Description Claw and agent harness in Microsoft Foundry (BRK243) Wed, June 3, 11:30 AM–12:15 PM PT Glenn Condron, Amanda Foster, Shawn Henry Go deep on multi-agent systems, Claw agent patterns, hosted agents architecture, triggers, state management, and file access. From prototype...

TL;DR Trace-based evaluation for external and hosted agents: Grade real production traces from Foundry, GCP, AWS, or any framework — no hand-curated datasets required. Grok 4.3: xAI's latest model lands in Foundry for advanced agentic and domain-specific workloads. DeepSeek V4: DeepSeek's newest model family expands open-model choice in the catalog. Fireworks AI — May update: DeepSeek V4 Pro and Kimi 2.6 arrive via Fireworks for high-performance open-model inference. GPT-5 Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (Gated GA): RFT graduates to gated GA with enterprise-ready compliance and SLA coverage. MagenticBrain, Fara1.5-9B, MagenticLite: Microsoft Research ships three on-device agent projects for agentic reasoning, screen-based UI automation, and local browser/file-system workflows — with examples in Foundry Labs. SocialReasoning-Bench + STATE-Bench: Two open-source benchmarks for evaluating agent negotiation, coordination, and memory quality. Manage...

Last time, we wrote a coroutine function that cached the result of another coroutine , but it only cached successful calls. It didn't cache failures, so if the inner coroutine fails, the outer one will simply try again the next time it is called. But what if we want to call the inner coroutine only once and cache the failure, too? We now have three states: Never tried, tried with success (and cache the success result), and tried with failure (and cache the failure). We can represent that as a variant with three types, using std:: monostate to represent the "never tried" state.¹ struct Widget : WidgetT<Widget> { std::variant<std::monostate, winrt::Thing, std::exception_ptr> m_thing; wil::unique_event m_busy{ wil::EventOptions::Signaled }; // auto-reset, initially signaled IAsyncOperation<winrt::Thing> GetThingAsync() { auto lifetime = get_strong(); co_await winrt::resume_on_signal(m_busy.get()); auto not_busy ...

Amazon Redshift now allows you to get started with Amazon Redshift Serverless with a lower data warehouse base capacity configuration of 4 Redshift Processing Units (RPUs) in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Canada (Central), Europe (London), South America (Sao Paulo), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions. Amazon Redshift Serverless measures data warehouse capacity in RPUs. 1 RPU provides you 16 GB of memory. You pay only for the duration of workloads you run in RPU-hours on a per-second basis. Previously, the minimum base capacity required to run Amazon Redshift Serverless was 8 RPUs. You can start using Amazon Redshift Serverless for as low as $1.50 per hour and pay only for the compute capacity your data warehouse consumes when it is active. For predictable workloads, Amazon Redshift Serverless capacity reservations with 1-year and 3-year terms provide additional price-performance benefits. Amazon Redshift Serverless enables users to run...

Amazon Connect Customer now supports tag-based access controls for the agent login/logout report, enabling you to apply granular access controls to meet compliance and regulatory requirements for data access. Contact center administrators can use resource tags to control who has access to view login and logout information for specific agents in their contact center. For example, you can tag agents with Department:Customer Service to only enable the Customer Service team manager to see login/logout information for these agents. Amazon Connect Customer agent login/logout report is available in all AWS commercial and AWS GovCloud (US-West) regions where Amazon Connect Customer is offered. To learn more about dashboards, see the . To learn more about Amazon Connect Customer, the AWS cloud-based contact center, please visit the Amazon Connect Customer website . Post Updated on May 26, 2026 at 10:04PM

Today, AWS announces that Amazon Aurora MySQL-Compatible Edition now supports integration with Kiro Powers , enabling developers to build Aurora MySQL-backed applications faster with AI agent assistance. Kiro Powers is a repository of curated and pre-packaged Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, steering files, and hooks that have been validated by Kiro partners to accelerate specialized software development and deployment. This integration bundles direct database connectivity with Aurora MySQL best practices, providing developers with instant expertise in Aurora MySQL operations and schema design through natural language interactions. With this integration, developers can perform both data plane operations (database queries, table creation, schema management) and control plane operations (cluster creation and management) through conversational commands instead of complex syntax. The Kiro agent dynamically loads task-specific guidance for Aurora MySQL Serverless scaling, migration f...

AWS Glue now offers large and memory-optimized workers in the AWS Europe (Spain) Region, giving customers in this region more power to handle complex data processing workloads. The new additions include two general compute workers (G.12X and G.16X) as well as four memory-optimized workers (R.1X, R.2X, R.4X, and R.8X). With these options, you can now tackle more complex transforms, aggregations, joins, and queries while processing higher volumes of data quickly using AWS Glue. The G.12X and G.16X workers extend the existing G worker lineup with additional compute, memory, and storage which makes them ideal for large, resource-intensive workloads. The R-series workers (R.1X, R.2X, R.4X, and R.8X) offer double the memory of their G counterparts, making them well-suited for memory-intensive Spark operations such as caching, shuffling, and aggregating. You can select any of these worker types through AWS Glue Studio, using notebooks or Visual ETL , or programmatically via the Glue Job AP...

AWS Deadline Cloud now supports browsing job attachment files directly within the Deadline Cloud monitor. AWS Deadline Cloud is a fully managed service that simplifies render management for teams creating computer-generated graphics and visual effects, for films, television, broadcasting, web content, and design. The Deadline Cloud job attachments feature simplifies managing input and output files for render jobs by handling uploads and downloads through Amazon S3. Previously, you could download all outputs for a job but couldn't easily see which specific files were attached as inputs or generated as outputs. With this new browsing capability, you can now view all attached files for a given job directly from the monitor in the browser or desktop application, clearly organized by inputs and outputs. You can also download individual files as needed, making it easy to retrieve specific assets without downloading everything. For more information, please visit the Deadline Cloud pro...

Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup is now available for Amazon S3 continuous backups. You can now scan your S3 continuous backups for malware and identify clean points in time across your entire backup timeline for safe recovery. You can enable full or incremental malware scans for S3 continuous backups within your backup plan, and run on-demand scans up to any restorable point in time. You can now query the malware scan status at any point in time within your continuous backup using the new GetPITRMalwareScanResults API, allowing you to verify whether a specific recovery time is clean before initiating a restore. Support for S3 continuous backups is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection for AWS Backup is supported. You can get started using the AWS Backup console , API, or CLI. To learn more, visit the AWS Backup documentation and Amazon GuardDuty Malware Protection documentation . Post Updated on May 26, 2026 at 11:00AM

For most .NET developers, the best way to get started with GitHub Copilot is not by learning every feature first. It is by using the right Copilot experience for the work already in front of you. Inline completions are part of that story, of course. They help with the everyday C# work that is repetitive but still necessary: filling in tests, building out LINQ expressions, wiring up DTOs, or scaffolding a Minimal API endpoint. But the bigger gains usually show up when you start using chat for reasoning and agentic workflows for scoped execution. That is where the different surfaces matter. Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, the Copilot CLI, and the cloud coding agent each shine on different kinds of .NET tasks. The question is not which one is "most advanced." The better question is: which one fits the job I am doing right now? Start with the task, not the mode The fastest way to get value is to stop asking, "Which Copilot feature should I try?" and start askin...

Starting with .NET MAUI 10, you can opt your Android app into Material 3 (a.k.a. Material You) styling with a single MSBuild property. Material 3 is already live in a large set of controls today, more are on the way in upcoming service releases, and the plan is for it to become the default for Android in a future version. In this post I'll walk you through how to enable it, what controls are covered today, and what's coming next. If you prefer watching over reading, I've got a video walkthrough as well: [iframe width="800" height="450" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eUYEdYK4bNA" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen] What is Material 3 again? Material 3 is the latest version of Google's Material Design system. Compa...

There's a particular rhythm to good development work: you think, you try, you check, you adjust. This month's Visual Studio update leans into that rhythm. Whether you're sketching an approach with the Plan agent before touching a single file, reviewing a wave of changes across many files, or fine-tuning the context Copilot has to work with, the May release adds deliberate, observable steps between an idea and a finished change. Alongside that, we shipped a fresh release of MSVC Build Tools with a long list of C++ improvements, because foundations matter too. Download the Visual Studio 2026 Stable Channel to try everything below. Plan before you build with the Plan agent Ever start writing code, then realize three files in that you should have thought about the design first? The new Plan agent (labelled Plan in the agent picker) is built for that moment. Instead of jumping straight into edits, you collaborate with Copilot on an implementation plan, with no changes made...