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Microsoft has released .NET 11, spanning C# 15, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI and Windows development, with hundreds of runtime optimizations and faster SDK tooling. The release emphasizes AI-powered development and agentic capabilities, letting developers build web, cross-platform and AI applications with less overhead.
Kirt McMaster, co-founder of the defunct Cyanogen, has launched Kora Systems, a Linux-based desktop OS that bakes AI models and autonomous agents directly into the computing experience, letting them work across apps, access files, and retain context between tasks. The free OS is slated for 2027 with support for Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm Snapdragon PCs, built by a roughly 50-person team using AI coding tools like Codex and Claude.
Anthropic updated its IPO filing to offer 825 million shares at $70-78 each, raising up to $64.35 billion and implying a fully diluted valuation of up to $1.405 trillion, well above its $965 billion mark in May. Seven giants including AMD, Nvidia, Microsoft, Google and TSMC will concurrently purchase $26 billion of Class N shares at the IPO price. Revenue hit $33.24 billion in the first nine months, up roughly 1200% year over year, while net loss reached $104 billion amid growing investor caution on AI valuations.
Microsoft released .NET 11 runtime RC 2, whose main change is raising minimum hardware instruction set requirements on x86/x64 and Arm64 and updating ReadyToRun compilation targets to exploit newer hardware. Windows on Arm64 now requires the LSE instruction set, while Linux and Apple minimums are unchanged. The runtime also improves a consistent event model for async state machines and profiler logging support.
Anthropic withdrew an IPO pricing filing hours before its roadshow that would have offered roughly 867 million shares at $70-80 apiece, raising up to about $69.3 billion, saying the details were inaccurate. The same filing disclosed a concurrent $26 billion private placement subscribed by Alphabet, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Microsoft and TSMC at the final IPO price, bringing combined deal size near $100 billion. Yet valuation expectations have slid from $2 trillion to as low as $1.1 trillion.
Microsoft has filed patent application US 2026/0341309 A1 describing a system that rewrites live speech almost in real time: an AI agent monitors audio and flags words to alter or remove based on preset rules or viewer profiles (age, language, residence), then generative AI replaces the audio, smooths transitions and regenerates mouth movements to match, with playback delayed roughly 1 to 10 seconds. The filing also covers live translation and deployment on AR glasses, phones and cameras, but examiners rejected the relevant claims on July 29, 2026, and Microsoft has not confirmed any product plans.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella floated a hypothetical in which the company's 200,000 employees work alongside 2 million to 20 million AI agents, likening the shift to the 1980s spread of office typists. He said he already runs 100 concurrent CLI agent sessions and that Microsoft built an 'agent development environment' to manage the cognitive load.