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Jay Parikh, Microsoft executive vice president and head of the company’s CoreAI engineering division, speaks at Build 2025 in Seattle, with the Anthropic

Microsoft employee Joe Lopez, who has spent the past four years working as a firmware engineer in the company’s Azure hardware systems team, was one of the protesters who interrupted Nadella. He was also joined by a fired Google employee,

UI, its first computer use agent, at Build 2025. This human-centred web agent enhances real-time collaboration, ensuring user control and transparency through a visible task panel. It supports various online tasks while prioritizing user consent for irreversible actions.

During its Build 2025 keynote, Microsoft announced a sweeping set of improvements to the Windows developer experience.

Microsoft’s Build developer conference has been interrupted by a protester for the second day in a row. Microsoft’s head of CoreAI, Jay Parikh, was on stage discussing the company’s Azure AI Foundry efforts when a Palestinian tech worker interrupted his keynote to protest against Microsoft’s contracts with the Israeli government.

Microsoft revealed a set of updates to its Azure platform during the Build 2025 conference aimed at improving dev access to AI-powered voice agents, document indexing and vector search integration.

Windows machine learning is one of the highlights of this year’s Microsoft annual developer event. The company is also paving the way to multi-agent artificial intelligence in Windows.

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open-sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit.

Protesters claim Microsoft's Azure and AI technologies are being used to support the ongoing assaults against Gaza.