Microsoft Build decoded: Solara, Scout, AI models, GitHub’s woes and more with Mary Jo Foley
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🗓️ 6 June 2026
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Summary
Microsoft's Build conference was a firehose: in-house AI models, agent-first devices, new coding tools, and a Copilot "super app" that got teased but never shown. Todd Bishop and Mary Jo Foley sort through what's real and what's not quite fully baked, from Project Solara and the Scout agentic assistant to Microsoft's push for AI self-sufficiency and the mounting pressure on GitHub.
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| 0:00.0 | voice interaction. The keyboard in the mouse is going to be replaced or at least supplemented by |
| 0:05.5 | talking to your devices. And I just really struggle with that when it comes to the PC. It just |
| 0:11.0 | doesn't make sense to me. No, it doesn't. And we're not talking about cursing at your PC. That's a |
| 0:15.6 | different thing. |
| 0:24.7 | Hi and welcome to Geekwire. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm Geekwire co-founder Todd Bishop. |
| 0:33.4 | Microsoft held its build developer conference in San Francisco this week, and it was basically a fire hose. |
| 0:40.0 | New AI models, new chips, new developer tools, new devices, new agent platforms, deals with Nvidia and the Mayo Clinic, and also some progress in quantum computing. |
| 0:44.9 | It felt like a big company doing its best to keep up, but how much of it was really fully |
| 0:50.8 | baked? |
| 0:51.9 | To help answer that question and sort through the news, I'm pleased to be |
| 0:54.8 | joined this week by Mary Jo Foley, editor-in-chief at Directions on Microsoft, and in her spare time, |
| 1:00.9 | a contributing columnist for Geekwire. Hi, Mary Jo. Hi, Todd. How's it going over there? |
| 1:06.3 | It's going pretty well. Actually, it's funny you should say that, Mary Jo, because I did want to |
| 1:10.3 | give an update for regular followers of the podcast. Mark Zuckerberg's boat is no longer in Lake Union. |
| 1:19.8 | Oh, man. I've been following that on your site. Before we launched Mary Jo, we were talking about a |
| 1:24.2 | potential interview that you might do. I hope I'm not giving away things. We won't say who it is. But you were saying that that interview might crash the site? Yeah. I got to tell you, if we can withstand the traffic to Zuck's boat, we're fine. That's true. That's true. You've got to get on the boat, though. You've got to get on the boat an interview who's on the boat. With Mark. Right. With him. That is a new goal. Thank you. |
| 1:49.1 | Hey, coming up, Mary Jo, since you last joined the podcast, we have started a new tradition, |
| 1:54.9 | the Geekwire Trivia Challenge as our last segment. And all I got to tell you, two words, code names. |
| 2:03.4 | So get yourself ready. |
| 2:05.5 | I'm scared. |
| 2:06.0 | The audience can. |
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