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March 16, 2026
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Manufacturing at the 2026 inflection point: How Frontier companies are entering the agentic era 

Microsoft is powering manufacturing’s 2026 inflection point—turning AI from pilots into orchestrated, end‑to‑end intelligence.

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How the NPU is paving the way toward a more intelligent Windows 

Category: AI October 2, 2025 How the NPU is paving the way toward a more intelligent Windows By Athima Chansanchai Inside Copilot+ PCs is a tiny but powerful AI engine, an innovation originally used in smartphones and now applied to Windows PCs: a neural processing unit Microsoft developed with silicon partners for its latest line.

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Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework 

Microsoft Agent Framework, now in public preview, and new capabilities in Azure AI Foundry make it easier for developers to build, observe, and govern multi-agent systems.

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