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 ...

Google has launched Gemma 4, which goes beyond chatbots and creates AI agents that can plan tasks, take actions on their own, generate code even without internet access, and process audio and video.

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

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