Microsoft Research Focus – Edition #97 microsoft.com

Microsoft Research’s edition 97 podcast, hosted by Sowbhagya Suresh, highlights research on AI agents, workplace Copilot use, teacher support and weather forecasting. It reports that ForkPilot reduced processing demands by up to 59%, coding agents struggle to understand unfamiliar codebases, and Microsoft’s BioEmu2 protein model is now in public preview.