Microsoft Foundry
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
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…
Microsoft brings Qwen3.8-27B agentic coding to developer PCs
Microsoft Foundry is bringing agentic coding to local developer hardware with Foundry Local, Qwen3.8-27B and GitHub Copilot integration. The setup is designed to keep…
Microsoft Foundry adds Copilot harness, browser automation and resilience tools
Microsoft Foundry has added a managed Copilot harness in public preview, made Browser Automation generally available and brought new decision and model capabilities to…
Reindeer Joins Microsoft Pegasus Program, Lands on Microsoft Marketplace
Reindeer, an enterprise agentic AI company, has joined the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program and made its platform available on Microsoft Marketplace. Azure…
Microsoft opens its Copilot harness to developers through Foundry
Microsoft is making the Microsoft Copilot harness, the orchestration layer behind its own Copilot products, available through Microsoft Foundry. According to the…
IBM Adds Identity and Access Controls for AI Agents via Vault and watsonx Orchestrate
IBM is extending HashiCorp Vault to AI agents and adding discovery, containment and evaluation features to watsonx Orchestrate. The company announced the changes at…
Azure AI Speech adds 25 languages and doubles processing speed
Microsoft has released LLM Speech 09-2026 for Azure AI Speech, adding 25 languages, including 11 Indic languages, and cutting processing time by up to 2x compared with…
TK Elevator gives service technicians AI agents built on Microsoft Foundry
TK Elevator (TKE) has equipped its service technicians with agentic AI apps that brief them on an elevator before they enter a building and record their spoken debrief…
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…
Tenable adds Microsoft Entra Agent ID support to Cloud Exposure
Tenable One Cloud Exposure now pulls Microsoft Entra agentic AI identities into its unified asset and identity inventory. According to Tenable, the aim is to help…
Microsoft Foundry adds GPT-6.1 Sol, makes Routines and Tool Search generally available
Microsoft Foundry's September 2026 update makes Routines and Tool Search generally available, puts Insights into public preview and adds GPT-6.1 Sol to the GPT-6 model…
Tucuvi joins Microsoft Pegasus Program to scale clinical voice AI
Tucuvi, an AI care management company, has joined the Microsoft for Startups Pegasus Program, which connects startups to Microsoft's enterprise customers and…
Microsoft: Grounding and Confidence Cut Insurer's Document Review Load by Nearly 50%
Microsoft says a large insurance organization cut its human review burden by nearly 50% using Azure Content Understanding's grounding and confidence features. In a…
Chips and infrastructureMicrosoft details Maia 300: 96 accelerators per rack and a 12,288-chip superpod
Microsoft has published an architecture deep dive on Maia 300, the third generation of its Azure inference accelerator, built to maximize useful tokens per watt and per…
Azure Content Understanding Adds Prebuilt Analyzers With Domain Knowledge for Documents
Microsoft is positioning the prebuilt analyzers in Azure Content Understanding as more than a schema: they package a maintained schema with learned knowledge of a…
Top storyMicrosoft to scale Azure Maia to multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027
Microsoft plans to scale its Azure Maia chip family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making Maia the primary inference system for its products and…
ModelsMicrosoft launches Microsoft-Decision-1, a model built for fast decisions
Microsoft has introduced Microsoft-Decision-1, a model designed for fast decision-making on structured tasks. According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, it outperforms…
Microsoft Named a Leader in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Industrial AIoT
Microsoft says it has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Industrial AIoT Platforms. In a blog post, the company links the recognition to…
Cohere launches Embed 5 with Pro and Fast tiers for enterprise retrieval
Cohere has released Embed 5, a new family of embedding models for enterprise search, RAG and agentic workflows. The family has two tiers, Embed 5 Pro for maximum quality…