What better way to learn about cutting-edge AI than creating a "copilot" assistant that can act as a mixologist, suggesting new cocktail recipes based on available ingredients? A mixologist example is ...

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its open-source Agent Framework, positioning it as the production-ready evolution of the project introduced in October 2025 by combining Semantic Kernel ...

Microsoft ships Agent Framework 1.0 but Azure's agent stack still spans too many surfaces while Google and AWS offer cleaner developer paths.

Back in the early 1990s, I worked in a large telecoms research lab, as part of the Advanced Local Loop group. Our problem domain was the “last mile”—getting services to peoples’ homes. One of my ...

Large language models (LLMs) by themselves are less than meets the eye; the moniker “stochastic parrots” isn’t wrong. Connect LLMs to specific data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and you get ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...