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Joined February 2009

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Jul 9
Aurora 1.5 adds 22 more variables, hourly temporal resolution, and probabilistic ensemble forecasting to the Aurora foundation model, making it more useful for real-world weather, climate, and energy applications. msft.it/6017vInGR
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Jul 8
Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, letting AI agents create expressive charts from compact, human-editable specifications. msft.it/6011vxmcl
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Jul 7
Among Microsoft’s 100+ accepted papers, 3 oral presentations, and 1 expo demo at ICML in Seoul, highlights include Fara 1.5 computer-use agents, critique-resilient benchmarking, expanded protein ML benchmarks with FLIP2, and improved LLM reasoning stability.
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Jun 30
AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavior more reliable without changing model weights: msft.it/6012vsvEs
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Jun 29
AI agents can't remember past conversations. They must constantly reload or retrieve context, which grows less efficient as tasks get longer and more complex. Memora solves this with a scalable memory system separating what’s stored from how it's retrieved:
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Jun 26
What do people actually do with AI at work? A new analysis of five million M365 Copilot conversations has answers. Scott Counts breaks it down in a new video. And dive into the analysis here: msft.it/6011vqpbL
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Jun 25
Researchers introduce generative causal testing, which translates black box models into clear hypotheses and verifies them in the scanner, revealing what specific brain regions respond to in language. msft.it/6011vUtRd
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Jun 24
Talos was built to help resolve a major bottleneck in genomic medicine: human review time. The open-source system recovered 90% of in-scope diagnoses while surfacing just 1.3 candidate variants per patient for expert review. msft.it/6014vUBwK
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Jun 23
On the Microsoft Research Podcast, Microsoft’s Jaime Teevan, Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman, and Rebecca Janssen explore how looking at AI as more than a tool for automating tasks people are already capable of might open the door to new possibilities. msft.it/6011vo8cX
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Jun 19
Coding agents understand code, but don't remember it. We released ShadowFrog, a set of open-source skills that build a persistent shadow knowledge base, so agent understanding compounds across sessions. 📝 microsoft.github.io/debug-gym/blog… 💻 github.com/microsoft/Shad… 🧵 ↓ (1/10)
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Shadow-Frog: Coding Agents that Dream and Discover
Shadow-Frog turns idle coding-agent time into autonomous discovery loops, building a shadow knowledge base for any codebase. We evaluate it across retrieval, bug hunting, bug fixing, and feature...
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Jun 18
Can you remember a new password after listening to five hours of stories? A transformer can. AI researchers Subutai Ahmad and Nicolò Fusi explore the fundamental differences between human memory and machine intelligence with Microsoft CVP Doug Burger. msft.it/6016vllRa
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Jun 17
ResNet has received the Longuet-Higgins Prize at CVPR 2026, recognizing research with proven, lasting impact. A decade after its publication, residual connections remain foundational to how modern AI systems are built, with over 320,000 citations and growing.
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Jun 15
30x faster analytics, GPU kernels generated automatically from SQL, AI matched to lab-grown tumor models for cancer treatment, and LLMs that learn across tasks without retraining. Dive into the latest issue of Research Focus: msft.it/6010vcYZ4
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Jun 12
Project Ire examined a timely malware sample and determined its intent through reverse engineering—identifying LOTUSLITE characteristics even as most major EDR tools did not detect it. msft.it/6011viy4N
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