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Promptions helps make AI prompting more precise with dynamic UI controls

December 10, 2025 | Sean Rintel, Advait Sarkar, Jack Williams, Nicholas Wilson, Richard Banks, Neeltje Berger, Philipp Steinacher, Payod Panda, Ian Drosos

Promptions helps developers add dynamic, context-aware controls to chat interfaces so users can guide generative AI responses. It lets users shape outputs quickly without writing long instructions.

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Event

NeurIPS 2025

December 2, 2025 – December 7, 2025 | San Diego, CA, USA

Microsoft is pleased to have over 150 accepted papers at NeurIPS 2025, scheduled for December 2–7, 2025, in San Diego, CA, USA.

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Podcast

Ideas: Community building, machine learning, and the future of AI

December 1, 2025

As the Women in Machine Learning Workshop (WiML) marks its 20th annual gathering, cofounders, friends, and collaborators Jenn Wortman Vaughan and Hanna Wallach reflect on WiML’s evolution, navigating the field of ML, and their work…

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Publication

New Future of Work Report 2025

Jenna Butler, Sonia Jaffe, Rebecca Janssen, Nancy Baym, Jake Hofman, Brent Hecht, Sean Rintel, Bahar Sarrafzadeh, Abigail Sellen, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jaime Teevan, Mohammed Alsobay, Liz Ankrah, Stephanie Beers, Megan Benzing, Mia Bruch, Zana Buçinca, Mar Carpanelli, Amelia Cole, Scott Counts, Madeleine Daepp, Justin Edwards, Alex Farach, Daniel G. Goldstein, Mary L. Gray, Javier Hernandez, Eric Horvitz, Nicole Immorlica, Kori Inkpen, Shamsi Iqbal, Manasa Jagadeesh, Siân Lindley, Brendan Lucier, Mercy Muchai, Ambrita Nand, Alexandra Olteanu, Jacki O'Neill, Max Peterschmidt, Christian Poelitz, Rabeeza, Nathalie Henry Riche, Advait Sarkar, Sunayana Sitaram, Amanda Snellinger, Jina Suh, John Tang, Lev Tankelevitch, Kiran Tomlinson, Anne Trapasso, Adam D. Troy, Gaurav Verma, Jack Williams, Ben Zorn, Jordana Young

MSR-TR-2025-58 | December 2025

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Group

People-Centric AI

Developing knowledge, model capabilities, and experiences that centre human values. People-Centric AI develops knowledge, model capabilities, and experiences that enable human agency and skill, support creativity and collaboration, and ensure equitable representation and participation. We…