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Northern Trust and Microsoft deploy AI agent for client onboarding
BusinessNovember 9, 2026, 16:58

Northern Trust and Microsoft deploy AI agent for client onboarding

Northern Trust and Microsoft are deploying an AI-powered client onboarding agent for clients using Northern Trust Asset Servicing’s Front Office Solutions platform. The…

Microsoft Foundry extension for Azure Developer CLI reaches 1.0
For developersNovember 5, 2026, 21:55

Microsoft Foundry extension for Azure Developer CLI reaches 1.0

Microsoft has made the Microsoft Foundry extension bundle for Azure Developer CLI generally available at version 1.0. The extension adds agent setup and local testing to…

LangSmith BYOC is now available on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
Products and toolsNovember 3, 2026, 20:02

LangSmith BYOC is now available on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud

The Bring Your Own Cloud, or BYOC, version of LangSmith can now run on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Users can keep agent data in their own cloud accounts while LangChain…

Lumen and Microsoft expand co-selling of AI-ready enterprise networks
BusinessNovember 2, 2026, 18:51

Lumen and Microsoft expand co-selling of AI-ready enterprise networks

Lumen Technologies and Microsoft have expanded their co-selling collaboration to help enterprises connect the data, applications and infrastructure behind AI workloads.…

Business
BusinessOctober 28, 2026, 21:20

Microsoft Q1 revenue hits $92.3 billion as Azure grows 48%

Microsoft reported first-quarter fiscal 2027 revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19%, as Microsoft Cloud revenue reached $63.9 billion and Azure revenue rose 48%. The company…

Products and tools
Products and toolsOctober 27, 2026, 13:00

New Relic Infrastructure 360 maps cloud dependencies and config changes to cut MTTR

New Relic has introduced Infrastructure 360, an advanced layer on its observability platform that maps cloud dependencies and tracks configuration changes so SREs and…

Microsoft: When AI Rewrites Millions of Lines of Code, Trust Is the Bottleneck
For developersOctober 26, 2026, 19:33

Microsoft: When AI Rewrites Millions of Lines of Code, Trust Is the Bottleneck

Microsoft says generating code is becoming the easy part of agentic software engineering, and that knowing whether to trust it is the real challenge. In a new post, two…

Chips and infrastructure
Chips and infrastructureOctober 23, 2026, 19:00

How OpenAI Scaled Habitat Storage on Azure Cosmos DB for 1 Billion Users

OpenAI has detailed how its Habitat storage platform, built on Azure Cosmos DB, handles data for over 1 billion users across 40 geographic regions. In Part II of a…

CoreWeave Named Only Platinum AI Cloud in SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX Rating
BusinessOctober 22, 2026, 18:27

CoreWeave Named Only Platinum AI Cloud in SemiAnalysis ClusterMAX Rating

CoreWeave says it is the only AI cloud provider to receive the top Platinum rating in SemiAnalysis's ClusterMAX Rating System. The company published the news on its…

Harvey rebuilds Review Tables to load thousands of documents page by page
Products and toolsOctober 22, 2026

Harvey rebuilds Review Tables to load thousands of documents page by page

Harvey has redesigned how its Review Table loads, fetching rows page by page from the server instead of pulling the whole table into the browser. According to the…

Lovable adds own-cloud deployment and admin controls for Enterprise
Products and toolsOctober 20, 2026, 13:30

Lovable adds own-cloud deployment and admin controls for Enterprise

Lovable has released a set of Enterprise features aimed at companies that let teams build apps with AI inside guardrails set by central IT. The October update includes…

Microsoft expands Sovereign Cloud with new control, key and offline tools
BusinessOctober 20, 2026, 10:20

Microsoft expands Sovereign Cloud with new control, key and offline tools

Microsoft has announced the next stage of its Microsoft Sovereign Cloud, adding tools for visibility, key control and offline operation across public, private and…

Microsoft and Intel pitch a shared stack for sovereign AI, from edge to cloud
BusinessOctober 19, 2026, 21:00

Microsoft and Intel pitch a shared stack for sovereign AI, from edge to cloud

Microsoft and Intel say digital sovereignty for AI has to be designed across the whole technology stack, from silicon to cloud, data and AI software. In a blog post by…

Microsoft Foundry's browser automation tool for AI agents is now generally available
Products and toolsOctober 19, 2026, 12:32

Microsoft Foundry's browser automation tool for AI agents is now generally available

Microsoft has made the browser automation tool in Microsoft Foundry generally available. According to Microsoft, it gives AI agents a managed browser to navigate…

Weaviate patches nearObject flaw that leaked vectors across collections
Safety and ethicsOctober 15, 2026

Weaviate patches nearObject flaw that leaked vectors across collections

Weaviate has released v1.39.3 to fix a medium severity authorization vulnerability in its GraphQL nearObject search operator, which let a user recover the vector of an…

Databricks Launches Private Network Gateway for Serverless Compute
Products and toolsOctober 14, 2026, 16:00

Databricks Launches Private Network Gateway for Serverless Compute

Databricks has introduced Private Network Gateway (PNG), a managed gateway that connects serverless workloads to private networks and resources through a single setup.…

OpenRouter launches Private Endpoints for fine-tuned models and reserved capacity
Products and toolsOctober 14, 2026

OpenRouter launches Private Endpoints for fine-tuned models and reserved capacity

OpenRouter has launched Private Endpoints, an add-on to its Enterprise plan that lets organizations route their own fine-tuned models, dedicated deployments and reserved…

Microsoft Releases Playbook to Fix How AI Coding Agents Use Your Technology
For developersOctober 9, 2026, 17:44

Microsoft Releases Playbook to Fix How AI Coding Agents Use Your Technology

Microsoft has published the AX Practitioner Playbook, a method for evaluating what AI coding agents do with a given technology, diagnosing why they get it wrong, and…

Microsoft Applies AI Agents to Azure Supply Chain and Fleet Operations
BusinessOctober 7, 2026, 17:00

Microsoft Applies AI Agents to Azure Supply Chain and Fleet Operations

Microsoft says it is using multi-agent AI workflows across the Azure hardware lifecycle, from demand planning and logistics to fleet reliability. In a blog post, Rani…

Microsoft Opens Circular Centers in Wales and Australia to Recycle Azure Hardware
Chips and infrastructureOctober 1, 2026, 03:44

Microsoft Opens Circular Centers in Wales and Australia to Recycle Azure Hardware

Microsoft has opened new Circular Centers in Newport, Wales, and Sydney, Australia, bringing its network for handling retired Azure datacenter hardware to eight sites.…

Azure sets four-stage lifecycle policy for virtual machine families
Chips and infrastructureSeptember 28, 2026, 17:00

Azure sets four-stage lifecycle policy for virtual machine families

Microsoft Azure has introduced a Virtual Machine Lifecycle policy that sorts VM series into four stages: Current, Extended, End of Life and Retired. According to…