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Health
Faster cancer-slide AI cuts computing cost by 50 times, Microsoft Research says
Two new open-weight models shrink the hardware needed to scan thousands of cancer tissue slides, bringing large-scale pathology research within reach of labs that can't afford supercomputer budgets.
4 min read

Frontier Labs
Microsoft's Orchard framework lets small AI agents punch well above their weight
A new open-source toolkit from Microsoft Research trains AI agents that can fix code, browse the web, and manage tasks, using models far smaller than today's frontier giants.
4 min read

Health
One AI model, many cancer tests: meet PRISM2, the pathology system that reads images and reports together
A new research model from Microsoft and Paige matches specialist cancer-detection tools without being rebuilt from scratch for each disease.
3 min read

Explained
GraphRAG vs. plain RAG: the honest scorecard
A knowledge graph can make AI answers far better, but only for certain questions, and the indexing bill can shock you. Here is what five studies actually found.
4 min read