AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud remain the three dominant public cloud platforms for 2026, with each offering production-grade compute, storage, databases, Kubernetes, serverless, security, DevO…
A developer at Tiger Tribe Heineken detailed a method for instrumenting .NET AI applications with OpenTelemetry and exporting traces to Langfuse, which currently lacks an official SDK for ingesting Op…
A developer's deep dive into Microsoft Foundry's Code Interpreter explains how the Agent Service provisions isolated Python containers, stages files through Azure Storage, and returns results via cont…
Microsoft Foundry Agent Service has adopted the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a first-class remote tool type, introducing a Toolbox construct that acts as a governance layer for agent tool calling. …
Microsoft is running a four-part live series, "From Model to Agent: The Agent Framework Harness, Live in C#," streaming on the .NET YouTube channel and Microsoft Reactor on four consecutive Thursdays …
Microsoft released Visual Studio 2026 on September 15, shipping five dedicated Copilot agents, BYOK support for using external models without a GitHub Copilot subscription, and performance gains over …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella highlighted a demo by Jeff Hollan showing how Microsoft Foundry makes long-running agents enterprise-ready by building security, safety guardrails, auditability, and FinOps…
Anthropic's mandatory 30-day data retention policy for Claude Fable 5, launched June 9, 2026, prompted Microsoft to restrict internal employee access to the model on June 10 over customer data confide…
CertArena launched as a free AI certification simulator built with zero dependencies on native Node 24, offering 26 scenarios covering AI fundamentals, Amazon Bedrock, responsible AI, and AWS security…
Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-2 on September 3rd, a speech-to-text model priced at $0.10 per audio hour, claiming a 5.2% average word error rate on the FLEURS benchmark across 60 languages and pro…
Microsoft and OpenAI announced that GPT-6 Astra is now available in Copilot Cowork, Copilot Studio, Microsoft Foundry, and GitHub Copilot, enabling users to delegate larger tasks with a 1.9x faster ta…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 both price standard input and output at $10 and $50 per million tokens, but their cache read rates diverge sharply: Astra charges $1 per million t…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra frontier model is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry, designed for multi-step reasoning and agentic workflows rather than single-prompt chat. The integration supports .N…
Meta released Muse Voice Transcribe on September 1, 2026, and Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-2 on September 3, 2026, with Meta reporting first place on the Artificial Analysis streaming STT ranking…
Microsoft announced the general availability of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, a frontier model designed for autonomous agentic workflows with computer-use capabilities, priced fr…
Anthropic will retain prompts and outputs from its covered models, including Mythos-class and future similarly capable models, for 30 days starting June 9, 2026, to detect patterns of misuse such as b…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and restricted-access Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, cutting cache-read pricing to $0.25 per million tokens, a 75% reduction from Fable 5, while keeping input an…
Anthropic revised its enterprise data retention policy for frontier models after customer pushback, replacing a mandatory 30-day retention rule with the Enterprise Frontier Safeguards program that sto…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is now generally available for all customers in Microsoft Foundry, designed to help organizations make decisions for complex work and execute across applications and systems. The …
Anthropic has introduced an invisible text watermark for Claude-generated text and digitally signed provenance metadata for generated files, aiming to increase transparency in AI content. The watermar…