Microsoft used its 7 October Windows event to pitch the PC as the home for AI agents, under the banner of hybrid intelligence. David picks out the two pieces that matter if you build on it: Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC), now generally available on Windows 11, which enforce what an agent can touch from outside the agent itself, and GitHub's plan for HydraFusion to route work between cloud models and models running on your own machine. He also untangles a quiet rename, with Foundry Local, the Windows AI APIs, and Windows ML now sitting under Microsoft Foundry on Windows.

Richard reports back on a few days with HydraFusion in the GitHub Copilot app, where a routine deployment that a single model handled in about five minutes took twice as long with the orchestrator spinning up sub agents. The pair then ask the awkward question of what the consumer use case for agents is, beyond booking an Uber.

Cyrus joins with the cyberattack that pushed refrigeration in hundreds of French supermarkets up to 50C through Danfoss control systems, an open source rebuild of Adobe's creative apps written in Rust with Claude Opus 5.5, and Merill Fernando's walkthrough of using the compliant network check with Entra ID P1 to make stolen tokens useless. Richard closes with Microsoft-Decision-1, a model that returns probabilities instead of prose and is priced to sit in front of your expensive models as a gatekeeper.

• Building Windows for hybrid intelligence (Windows Experience Blog)
• Project HydraFusion (GitHub Blog)
• Using HydraFusion in GitHub Copilot (GitHub Docs)
• Deploy and use Microsoft-Decision-1 (Microsoft Learn)
• Compliant network check with Conditional Access (Microsoft Learn)
• Entra.Chat, Merill Fernando's podcast
• French supermarket chains hit by cyberattack (Infosecurity Magazine)
• Vibe coded Adobe Creative Suite alternative (Gizmodo)
• Richard "Levelord" Gray has died (PC Gamer)
• Security flaw gave one man control of 7,000 robot vacuums (CNN via 14 News)

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