New Alibaba AI framework skips loading every tool, cutting agent token use 99%

A new framework called SkillWeaver tackles AI agent tool routing by skipping full-library loading, cutting token use 99% on ...

DeepSeek open sources DSpark, a new framework to speed up LLM inference by up to 85%

DSpark can make decoding faster, but acceptance quality still determines how much speed the system actually realizes.
Visual Studio Magazine

Uno Platform Helps Ship First Stable SkiaSharp 4.0 Release for 2D .NET Graphics

SkiaSharp 4.148.0 marks the first stable release in the SkiaSharp v4 line. The project is now co-maintained by Microsoft's .NET team and Uno Platform, reflecting a broader open-source collaboration.
Virtualization Review

As Mythos & Fable Flounder from Feds, Claude Flies on Foundry

While Anthropic is dealing with a government-ordered suspension of its newest Fable and Mythos models, Microsoft is emphasizing a more enterprise-ready Claude path through Microsoft Foundry.
Visual Studio Magazine

Support Vector Regression with SGD Training Using C#

Support vector regression can predict numeric values effectively, and this article shows how to implement and train a kernel SVR model in C# using stochastic sub-gradient descent.