Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-recognition model it claims is faster, more accurate, and cheaper than offerings from OpenAI, Google, or ElevenLabs, priced at 10 cents per hour of audio,…
Microsoft has added MAI-Transcribe-2, a speech-to-text model, to its Microsoft Foundry model catalog in public preview, announced at Build 2026. The model is part of a broader update that includes oth…
Microsoft Foundry Toolbox and Tool Search provide a single MCP-compatible endpoint for governing agent tools, centralizing integration, policies, and versions. Tool Search uses BM25 to hide ordinary t…
Microsoft AI released MAI-Transcribe-2 on Thursday at 10 cents per hour of audio, a 72% price cut from the $0.36 per hour charged for MAI-Transcribe-1 five months ago, undercutting rivals OpenAI, Goog…
Microsoft Foundry introduced four cost optimization strategies for AI agents, emphasizing that businesses should focus on the cost of a successful outcome rather than token price, as each agent loop c…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, with Fable 5.1 scoring 52.6% on Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (up from 24.7% for Fable 5) and cutting cache reads by 75% to $0.25 per million to…
XAI's Grok chatbot now integrates with Microsoft's Outlook, Calendar, and OneDrive, enabling it to read emails, manage schedules, and browse cloud files. The Outlook Mail and Calendar connectors, docu…
Microsoft's CoreAI organization, which includes Azure Developer Services and Microsoft Foundry, is addressing the challenge of making independently built portals feel like a cohesive ecosystem despite…
Microsoft Foundry's provisioned throughput (PTU) sizing for GPT-5.6 Luna can be calculated using a formula that accounts for peak RPM, token sizes, and cache rate, as demonstrated in a developer's gui…
Pangolin, the open-source zero-trust remote access platform, released version 1.22, adding an AI Gateway that acts as an identity-aware proxy between AI clients and model providers, supporting OpenAI,…
Anthropic has made five Claude capabilities—Structured outputs, Web search, Web fetch, MCP connector, and Tool search—available on deployments hosted on Azure in Microsoft Foundry, eliminating the tra…
Persistent memory in AI agents introduces production-state risks that require data-system controls, according to a technical paper by an unnamed author. The paper cites examples such as a Mem0 issue w…
Cohere released Parse 5 on Thursday, a 2.3-billion-parameter vision language model that converts PDFs, slides, and images into structured Markdown at $1.50 per 1,000 pages, targeting enterprise-scale …
Microsoft announced Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) in Preview for Visual Studio, enabled by default across Community, Professional, and Enterprise SKUs, allowing developers to connect to Microsoft Foundr…
XAI released Grok 4.6 on Microsoft Foundry on August 26, giving Azure customers access to the model with a 500,000-token context window and four reasoning settings, as a public preview. The move exten…
Microsoft and HUMAIN, a PIF company, announced a long-term strategic collaboration on August 26, 2026, to accelerate AI adoption in Saudi Arabia and beyond, with plans to bring HUMAIN's ALLAM Arabic l…
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service and the direct OpenAI API run identical models, but differ in infrastructure, authentication, and compliance. Azure offers data residency, managed identity authenticat…
Microsoft has introduced an AI governance architecture that shifts from documented policies to runtime enforcement, continuous evaluation, observability, and audit evidence, spanning nine governance d…
Microsoft has launched MAI-Image-2.6, its latest first-party image-generation model, which now ranks No. 2 on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard and No. 3 for image editing. The model is available in M…
AT&T has shifted up to 25% of its 45 billion daily AI tokens to open-source models, cutting costs by 80% to 90% on targeted applications and saving millions, with plans to route 70-80% of workloads th…