Kurt Shintaku's Blog

All the announcements from the keynote are summarized on the Build 2026 Live Blog which has short synopses of each event. I highly encourage taking a look at the live blog because frankly, it can be overwhelming – the amount of information that was announced!

• Microsoft Build 2026 Live:
  https://news.microsoft.com/build-2026-live-blog

Here’s shortcuts to the full overviews of each:

• Updates and new capabilities for Windows AI APIs
• Surface RTX Spark Dev Box delivers local AI compute to devs
• Windows 365 extends support for developers
• Developer-optimized Windows 11 experience to build and ship faster
• More improvements to developer-optimized Windows 11 experience
• Infrastructure updates for the agentic era
• NVIDIA, Microsoft join forces on unified stack
• Introducing Project Solara, a new platform for agents
• Azure HorizonDB brings PostgreSQL into the agentic app era
• New class of GPU-accelerated analytics to give developers a boost
• Microsoft Web IQ: A new standard for AI grounding
• Organizations can unlock collective intelligence with Microsoft IQ
• OpenClaw on Windows now in preview
• Windows 365 for Agents brings Cloud PCs to agent workloads
• Microsoft Foundry updates: agents you deploy, improve and trust in production
• The GitHub Copilot app for agentic development
• Rayfin delivers enterprise-grade app backends
• The latest on MDASH
• A new look for Microsoft Copilot
• Microsoft Scout, the new always-on personal agent for work built on OpenClaw
• Frontier Tuning gives companies domain-specific, high-efficiency AI
• The next-gen in-house Microsoft AI models
• Microsoft Discovery now generally available
• Introducing Majorana 2, Microsoft’s next-gen quantum chip

If you watch Satya Nadella’s Build 2026 keynote in it’s entirety, here’s a list of all the shortcuts they posted in the video:
(I’ll put descriptions of each later but I wanted to get these into the post before I forget)

• https://aka.ms/WindowsAIapis
• https://aka.ms/AIon1
• https://microsoft.com/devbox
• https://aka.ms/win365developer
• https://aka.ms/maia200updates
• https://aka.ms/cobalt200vms
• https://aka.ms/projectsolara (Steven Bathiche)
• https://aka.ms/AzureHorizonDB
• https://aka.ms/GPUAcceleratedFabricDW (7x query Perf for reporting and apps)
• https://aka.ms/WebIQ (The best answer quality, lowest latency, most token efficient)
• https://aka.ms/MicrosoftIQ
• https://aka.ms/MicrosoftExecutionContainers
• https://aka.ms/OpenClawWindows (OpenClaw Windows Companion using MXC… ClawFather Peter Steinberger)
• https://aka.ms/hostedagents
• https://aka.ms/FireworksAIonFoundry
• https://aka.ms/GithubCopilotApp
• https://aka.ms/Rayfin
• https://aka.ms/A365SDKGA
• https://aka.ms/A365Local
• https://aka.ms/MDASH
• https://aka.ms/MicrosoftScout (Autopilots)
• https://aka.ms/MicrosoftDiscoveryGA
• https://aka.ms/Majorana2