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OpenAI announced GPT-5 last week in "GPT-5 and the new era of work". Working with OpenAI, we rolled out GPT-5 support the day it launched, making sure you can use and build with it and integrate it into your applications immediately. We've got you covered with a dev-focused rundown: GPT-5 availability, new capabilities, and quick-start steps. An...

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly established itself as the go-to standard for seamlessly connecting AI agents with a variety of external tools and services. In just a few months, it has become a prominent topic at developer events and forums, gaining adoption from companies of all sizes. To meet the rapid pace of advancements, we ran ...

MCP has evolved significantly beyond its original goal of "providing context to LLMs." With recent enhancements including resumable streams, elicitation, sampling, and notifications (progress and resources), MCP now provides a robust foundation for building complex agent-to-agent communication systems. In this article, you'll learn: ...

We've been talking a lot about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) lately, including recent blog posts and sessions at Microsoft Build. In this post, I'd like to share some top tips for how you can use MCP servers we've been building to improve your developer productivity. What's the experience like? If you've never used an MCP server, imagine cha...

Get ready for two days of deep technical insight, community connection, and hands-on learning at MCP Dev Days, a virtual event dedicated to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the emerging standard that bridges AI models and the tools they rely on. You can watch MCP Dev Days by registering on our event page: https://aka.ms/mcpdevdays. From th...

For developers building in the field of AI, the industry moves so quickly that we often prioritise speed and execution over everything else. To keep up with the latest changes, many developers and enterprises are turning to open-source AI tools. One of the most popular tools today is LangChain, an open-source framework for building AI applications....

What if your dev tools could take the first pass at a feature, file a bug report, propose a fix—and deploy it? With Agentic DevOps and GitHub Copilot, they can. Here's how agents will reshape every step of the software development lifecycle.

In the fast-paced world of AI development, connecting intelligent applications to the tools and data sources they need can be challenging. That's why Model Context Protocol (MCP) is resonating with some many, an open standard that's transforming how developers integrate AI capabilities into their applications. MCP enables you to "connect once, int...