You have an idea. Now take it beyond the scoreline. ​ Build something that changes how football is understood, told, or experienced with AI.

Knowing when to use AI and when to question its output is part of learning to build. Watch @shanselman, software engineer Julia Gao, and CMU’s Dr. Michael Hilton discuss PRAISE and how to support the next generation of developers. youtube.com/watch?v=BglzGRnH…

Classification is a key use case for decision models. Check out how accurately and quickly Microsoft-Decision-1 can categorize a variety of queries compared to GPT-6 Sol.

Microsoft-Decision-1 achieved the highest accuracy in our 36-benchmark comparison, spanning nearly 150,000 questions across benchmarks kept blind from training.

The challenge starts now. Build an AI-powered solution that turns synthetic football data into match intelligence, narratives, recaps, or personalized fan experiences. Register by Oct. 20. Submit by Oct. 27: msft.it/6018aUKYq

Today, we announced the next step in the Project HydraFusion vision: local models and intelligent routing for GitHub Copilot on Windows. @cinnamon_msft shows what this can mean for your everyday coding workflows.

Grounding ties extracted values to source evidence. Confidence scores flag uncertainty. A developer-defined JSON schema gives your app structured output. Together, they help you validate results or route them for review before your app or agent acts.

In Azure Content Understanding, OCR and layout models preserve text, tables and reading order in Markdown before an LLM extracts fields. The perception layer reads the page. The LLM reasons over that representation.

Our tests showed LLMs outperforming specialized models on contracts and agreements, where meaning lives in the words. On tax forms and mortgage applications, where layout carries meaning, our existing approach still won. Match the approach to the document.

An agent reported 46.1 dB for F-03’s ORL at 1310 nm. That cell was empty. It borrowed the value from the 1550 nm column after extraction flattened the table. For your document pipeline, preserving structure is part of preserving meaning.

WSL containers API Access functions to run Linux containers programmatically in your native Windows apps – unlocking scenarios like running local AI workloads or using cloud-based containerized applications locally.

WSL containers CLI wslc.exe to directly build, run and deploy Linux containers on Windows, or use its built-in alias container.exe to run the same familiar container commands