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Safe agents don’t guarantee a safe ecosystem of interconnected agents. Microsoft Research examines what breaks when AI agents interact and why network-level risks require new approaches. Learn more: microsoft.com/en-us/research…

Coming May 14 at Microsoft Research Forum: a new release and demo from MSR AI Frontiers. Plus new work on Agentic GitHub Workflows, Real-time agent verification, Energy-based fine-tuning, and Guiding the AI transition. Register now:

Congratulations to Philippe Laban, Jennifer Neville, and collaborators on their Best Paper Award at ICLR 2026 for “LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation.” This research explores how LLMs perform across multi-turn conversations is shaping how the field thinks about real-world AI evaluation: msft.it/6017vE12f

AutoAdapt automates the design and tuning of domain adaptation workflows for large language models. It improves performance without requiring additional compute, making deployment more accessible: msft.it/6013vDkpX

Today we're sharing a major Skala update: new paper and model release. Skala is a deep-learned XC functional for DFT: 2.8 kcal/mol on GMTKN55, wins 32/55 subsets & surpasses SOTA hybrids in accuracy at semi-local cost. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.14665 Code: github.com/microsoft/skala

In Episode 2 of "The Shape of Things to Come," sustainability leader Amy Luers and optimization expert Ishai Menache join Doug Burger to explore AI's role in climate, from datacenter emissions to energy optimization and sustainability at scale. msft.it/6017vBhjd

LLMs that get lost in conversation. Robots that learn zero-shot. Diffusion models built for imbalanced data. This is the ICLR edition of Research Focus. msft.it/6017vB2nT

A new perspective from Microsoft Research published in Cell makes the case that generative models are what oncology needs next, capable of integrating genomics, imaging, clinical data, and more into a unified system for cancer discovery. msft.it/6013QhkUS

We are thrilled to share Microsoft has been awarded the 2026 Franz Edelman Award by @INFORMS for using ML, optimization, and generative AI to orchestrate cloud fulfillment decisions at global scale. msft.it/6017QC6kP

Microsoft has just received the 2026 INFORMS Prize at the INFORMS Edelman Gala, for their excellence in operations research and analytics. Congratulations! 👏 hubs.ly/Q04bTj-Z0

Just in! Microsoft was announced the 2026 Franz Edelman Award winner! 🏆 Congratulations to ALL six finalist teams, especially Microsoft. Read all about their award-winning project! 👏 hubs.ly/Q04bTqSv0

Congratulations to @Microsoft, the 2026 Franz Edelman Award winner! 🏆

Presentation of the 2026 Franz Edelman Award Winner — Microsoft [YouTube] ▶️ hubs.ly/Q04bT-hd0 Awarded at the 2026 INFORMS Analytics+ Conference in National Harbor, MD.

Congratulations to Dr. Jacki O’Neill on receiving the 2026 ACM SIGCHI Societal Impact Award! As founding director of Microsoft Research Africa, Kenya, she advances human-centered, equitable AI designed to serve communities across Africa and beyond. msft.it/6013Q7u0x

Microsoft Research is at #CHI2026 this week. The question driving our work this year isn't about AI technical capabilities. It's whether it works well for everyone. msft.it/6015Q7PtJ

Newly published in Optica from Microsoft Research: a first-of-its-kind materials-screening framework for glass-based data storage, identifying which intrinsic material properties actually drive performance in femtosecond laser writing. msft.it/6014QfbFo

On the Microsoft Research Podcast, Chief Scientist Jaime Teevan & researchers Jenna Butler, Jake Hofman, & Rebecca Janssen unpack the New Future of Work Report 2025 & explore what an ideal AI-driven working world looks like (it’s not just doing more). msft.it/6016Q4U92

Today, we welcome the 2026 Microsoft Research Fellowship cohort, an inspiring global community of fellows and advisors helping to shape what’s next across science, technology, and society. Join us in celebrating this year’s recipients: msft.it/6013Q45bX These contributions span the following themes: • AI for global and societal impact • AI fundamentals: scalable reasoning, model adaption and evaluation • Biological and scientific modeling • Foundational systems & infrastructure for AI • Human-AI collaboration and interaction • Multimodal & embodied intelligence

For people who speak the world’s most popular languages, AI is helping improve their health care, education and more. But what about the millions who speak less common languages? Microsoft researchers and data scientists are working to close the gap. msft.it/6012QNPVw

In the latest Research Focus: LLM sentiment in cultural context, robot assembly learning, smarter AI agents, verified Rust code, and CHI 2026. msft.it/6016Q2k8K