Microsoft Comic Chat, the pioneering IRC client that transformed conversations into comic-book panels and introduced Comic Sans to the world, is now open source.
Open source is the foundation for AI and, as AI workloads scale, developers need that foundation to be more secure, more predictable, and easier to build apps and agents.
Conductor is an open-source CLI (MIT license, Microsoft org) that takes a different approach: you define your multi-agent workflows in YAML, and the routing between agents is deterministic.
At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam, we’re making announcements that reflect the goal of bringing the operational maturity of Kubernetes to today’s workloads and demands.
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) Hyperlight project delivers faster, more secure, and smaller workload execution to the cloud-native ecosystem.