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4 stories, first covered on Oct 10, 2026.
Microsoft is one of the world's largest technology companies. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, it builds software, cloud services, and hardware that billions of people use every day.
Microsoft is most famous for the Windows operating system that runs on most PCs, and the Office suite of programs including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It also offers cloud computing through Azure, professional networking through LinkedIn, and communication tools like Teams.
The company sells the Xbox video-game console and the Game Pass subscription service. According to Asha Sharma, Xbox's chief executive, people spend more than 72 billion hours a year playing Xbox games, which is roughly five times the estimated time spent writing code worldwide.
In October 2026, Microsoft launched Microsoft-Decision-1, a specialized AI model that picks from fixed answer options instead of writing text. Built on Alibaba's Qwen3.5 model, it scored 83.5% accuracy across 36 benchmarks and responds in 85 milliseconds. The Xbox Research team used it to label more than 10,000 reviews at 14 times the speed of larger models and one two-hundredth of the cost. Pricing was set at $0.042 per million input tokens.
Also in October 2026, Microsoft Research released Agensh, an open-source system that lets up to 1,024 AI coding agents work together on the same project without a central coordinator. Tests showed that scaling from one agent to 1,024 agents improved results on tough programming tasks, with performance on the Pandoc task rising from 33.89% to 55.06%.
In October 2026, Microsoft announced Xbox Labs, a new internal team led by Scott Van Vliet, Xbox's chief technology officer. The group will explore AI-powered game modification and porting, with Sharma saying it will "build in the open." Microsoft has also invested in OpenAI, which powers the Copilot AI assistant integrated across many Microsoft products.
Microsoft is best known for the Windows operating system, the Office productivity suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and the Xbox gaming console. It also operates the Azure cloud platform and the LinkedIn professional network.
In October 2026, Microsoft launched Microsoft-Decision-1, a fast and inexpensive AI model that scores fixed choices rather than writing text. The same month, Microsoft Research released Agensh, a system that lets over a thousand AI coding agents cooperate on software projects without a central boss.
Xbox Labs is a new Microsoft team announced in October 2026, led by Scott Van Vliet, that explores AI-powered game modification and porting. It follows a wave of community projects where games are being rebuilt and ported using AI coding assistants.
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How it worksMicrosoft opens a tool that lets 1,024 AI coding agents work together without a bossHerald of AI
It means AI can tackle bigger programming tasks faster by letting dozens or hundreds of agents coordinate on their own.
Made with AIXbox Forms 'Xbox Labs' to Explore AI-Powered Game Mods and PortsHerald of AI
Microsoft is creating a new team to experiment with the wave of AI-generated game remixes, decompiles, and cross-platform ports that modders have been sharing online.
New modelsMicrosoft Unveils Microsoft-Decision-1, a Decision AI Model Built on Alibaba's Qwen3.5Herald of AI
A new kind of AI that picks from a list instead of writing text could make agents faster and cheaper.
New modelsMicrosoft launches Decision-1 to compete in fast-growing AI decision model marketHerald of AI
The new model aims to deliver fast, accurate decisions for routing and classification tasks, adding to a crowded field of specialized AI tools.
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