Orchard: An open framework for scalable agentic AI. The story centres on Microsoft. Reported by Microsoft Research. Bharat Hunt files it under AI Agents and AI Research — the section covering autonomous and tool-using systems, agent frameworks, MCP and orchestration.
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Microsoft has new AI privacy rules for schools. The story centres on Microsoft. Reported by The Verge. Bharat Hunt files it under AI Regulation — the section covering law, policy, courts, standards and government positions on AI. Open the original report for the full detail.
Voice AI startup Navana.ai raises Rs 40 Cr led by Ronnie Screwvala. It centres on Benchmarks, and also names IISc and IIT Madras. Reported by Entrackr. Bharat Hunt files it under AI Funding and AI in India, and tracks it as India coverage — the section covering rounds, valuations, acquisitions and investor moves in AI.
Sparks Fly: NVIDIA Accelerates Local AI at IFA 2026. It centres on NVIDIA, and also names Microsoft and Inference. Reported by NVIDIA. Bharat Hunt files it under AI Hardware and AI Coding — the section covering chips, accelerators, data centres, on-device inference and supply.
MindTopo reveals VLMs’ spatial reasoning abilities. It centres on Benchmarks, and also names Microsoft. Reported by Microsoft Research. Bharat Hunt files it under AI Research — the section covering papers, benchmarks, evaluations, interpretability and safety results. Open the original report for the full detail.