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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 announced new tools for companies to develop their own AI services that have analysts confident in the tech giant’s AI momentum and strategy.

Microsoft used to charge $19 for developers to grab a spot for their software or game on its digital platform, but that fee has been ditched.

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,

Microsoft has unveiled new tools and features to help developers build AI agents and contribute to the open agentic web at Microsoft Build, taking place on 19-22 May 2025. “Our goal is simple: help every developer build apps and agents that empower people and organisations everywhere,

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

Repeatedly promoting coal as a power source for data centers, Trump told the World Economic Forum in January that he would be approving power plants for AI through an emergency declaration. He also called on tech companies to use coal as a backup power source.

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.

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.

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.