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Customer support is the gnarliest AI problem

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Ryan chats with Ahmad Al-Dahle, CTO at Airbnb, about deploying multi-party AI agents to tackle the uniquely gnarly problem of customer support, how a moving target of rigorous evaluations helps engineers balance latency against accuracy, and the ways in which AI coding tools demand an even higher level of judgment from software engineering teams.
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The language of superstition: jinxes, the Scottish Play, and the hospital Q-word

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1236. In honor of Friday the 13th, we look at words about superstitions, including jinxes, theater curses, and the one phrase you don't say in a hospital.


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Microsoft Foundry with Adrian Twarog: Build Your First Agent

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Duration: 15:49
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Microsoft Foundry is where you build, test and publish AI agents, with usage and billing tracked in Azure.

Developer and YouTube creator Adrian Twarog (@AdrianTwarog) takes Microsoft Foundry from first login to a published agent. He creates an agent, tests it in the playground, deploys models, connects an MCP server with scoped permissions and calls the finished agent from the Azure SDK. Along the way, he shows the model catalog, where models from Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek sit side by side. Then he sits down with Adam Bogobowicz from Microsoft to talk about what it really took to make it look easy.

In the conversation, Adrian explains why he goes through a product three times before he records, why creating an agent in Microsoft Foundry also deploys a model, and why seeing your models, credits and spend in one place matters for enterprise teams.

This episode is for developers and IT teams trying Microsoft Foundry for the first time, and for anyone who needs to keep AI costs visible as agents move toward production.

Resources
- Microsoft Foundry portal https://ai.azure.com
- More Azure resources! https://azure.com/AzureEssentials

Connect
- Adrian Twarog: https://www.youtube.com/c/AdrianTwarog
- Adam Bogobowicz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adambogobowicz

Chapters
00:00 Why Adrian Twarog took on Microsoft Foundry
02:00 Set up a Microsoft Foundry account
03:53 Build, test and deploy your first agent
07:01 Connect an MCP server with scoped permissions
09:55 Publish your agent and call it from code
10:40 How Adrian makes a complex tool look simple
15:59 Microsoft Foundry is built for enterprise teams

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How to Validate JWT Tokens in ASP.NET Core in Offline and Air-Gapped APIs

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In a normal ASP.NET Core API, the AddJwtBearer extension method points the Authority property at your Duende IdentityServer instance. On startup, the handler fetches the discovery document at /.well-known/openid-configuration and the JSON Web Key Set (JWKS), caches the validation keys in memory, and from then on validates every incoming token against them. You never think about offline authentication because connectivity and the keys are simply there.
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Go 1.25.14-2 Microsoft build now available

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Go 1.25 is end-of-life and no longer supported. We’ve published this release as a one-time measure to help users who still rely on Go 1.25 to mitigate this specific certificate revocation security issue. Please upgrade to a supported, secure version of Go such as the latest patch release of 1.26 or 1.27.

Microsoft build of Go 1.25.14-2 is a one-off release to backport the upstream fix for CVE-2026-111943. This release includes no other CVE fixes and still contains known, unpatched security vulnerabilities.

This release is available for download. For more information about this release and the changes included, see the table below:

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v1.25.14-2 go1.25.14 release notes

The post Go 1.25.14-2 Microsoft build now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

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Build an AI software factory (an experiment in .NET) - Sandboxes: running an agent with no permission prompts

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In the introduction I said the answer to unattended agents is to give them full permissions inside something where full permissions can't hurt you. That's probably easier said than done, and in this blog post I will explore the options for that.
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