Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from systems that answer questions to agents that can plan, use tools, navigate digital environments, write software, and execute multistep workflows. Yet the next phase of agentic AI development depends on more than increasingly capable models. It requires infrastructure that can reliably train, test, evaluate, and improve autonomous systems in environments that resemble the real world. Microsoft Research’s Orchard framework addresses that...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving beyond software. For years, the industry's biggest breakthroughs centered on increasingly capable language models, multimodal systems, and autonomous AI agents. Now, attention is shifting toward another frontier, purpose-built hardware designed specifically for interacting with AI. OpenAI's launch of the Codex Micro, its first commercial hardware product, represents far more than the release of a programmable keypad. Although compact in size and...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving beyond chatbots, digital assistants, and text generation into the physical world. The next major transformation in computing is no longer centered solely on software that understands language, but on intelligent machines capable of perceiving, reasoning, planning, and acting in real-world environments. This emerging paradigm, commonly known as Physical AI, represents one of the most significant technological shifts since the rise of cloud computing....