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Microsoft Agent Framework 1.23.0 establishes MCP 2.x compatibilityThe release migrates MCP transports, errors, schemas and lifecycle handling across the framework, while adding allowlisted argument forwarding for A2A requests. It also makes Docker shell trust requirements explicit and adds Python 3.15 support across several integrations.→Microsoft completes pre-training of 2.8-trillion-parameter MAI-Base-2MAI-Base-2 contains 2.8 trillion total parameters and activates 80 billion per token. Microsoft says it outperformed the open-weight models tested on held-out evaluations and achieved substantially better pre-training compute efficiency, but the model remains in post-training and is not yet generally available.→Microsoft research highlights failures outside standard AI benchmarksThe discussion focuses on failures that emerge when AI systems are tested beyond conventional benchmarks and on the importance of examining the underlying data. It argues that evaluation must include surprising and real-world failure modes rather than relying only on headline scores.→Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted EvilTokens phishing serviceMicrosoft said EvilTokens used AI to analyse victims’ inboxes, select impersonation targets and design fraud strategies. The company attributed more than 12,000 compromised inboxes across 10,000 organisations to the service.→Microsoft adds Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol to Copilot model choiceThe update expands Copilot’s model-selection layer beyond Microsoft and OpenAI offerings. It follows same-day releases of both models and gives enterprise users another route to access competing frontier systems within Microsoft’s product ecosystem.→Microsoft agent-learning 0.9.0 adds reproducible policy replay with input lineageagent-learning 0.9.0 adds policy audit and replay with consumed-input lineage. The release records which inputs contributed to a policy execution so the run can be reproduced and examined later.→Nokia and Microsoft announce an agentic foundation for autonomous telecom operationsThe collaboration targets autonomous voice-over-5G assurance, radio-network analysis, predictive maintenance and fault management across multi-vendor environments. Nokia says the solution is available now and supports hybrid, cloud and on-premises deployments.→Microsoft publishes Humanist AI code for MAI modelsMicrosoft's new code says people should retain meaningful control over MAI systems, including the ability to interrupt, correct or shut them down. It also rules out models expanding their own scope, pursuing unassigned goals or concealing relevant reasoning, while acknowledging that these constraints may reduce capability.→Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI trainingThe Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that their journalism was used to train AI systems without permission. The complaint argues that AI-generated answers can substitute for visits to publisher sites, threatening advertising and subscription revenues.→Microsoft and HUMAIN plan enterprise distribution for ALLAM modelsHUMAIN and Microsoft announced a long-term collaboration centred on making HUMAIN’s ALLAM Arabic-language models available through Microsoft Foundry and the Microsoft 365 Copilot ecosystem. The companies also plan to pair HUMAIN specialists with Microsoft’s forward-deployed engineers to help organisations move from pilots to production across Saudi Arabia and the wider region.→Microsoft receives first production Vera Rubin systems as Nvidia ramps the platformThe delivery was described as supporting frontier-model training as Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform enters full production. The systems are reported to provide about three times GB300 compute and 2.7 times its memory bandwidth, though those figures await independent operational validation.→Visual Studio Code 1.134 makes agent sessions easier to manageThe release lets the same agent session connect to multiple VS Code windows through the Agent Host Protocol and aligns its Copilot agent with Copilot CLI and other Copilot products. It also adds side-by-side chat groups, a prompt timeline with file-change counts, full-text conversation search, and local HTML preview in the integrated browser.→