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Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2 and 3 to pitch AI agents, new device concepts, and in-house MAI models as the next layer of its software business. The answer to whether that becomes Microsoft’s next growth catalyst is yes, but only if the company turns agentic AI from a...

Orion Innovation and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham announced on June 4, 2026, a co-branded Applied Generative AI elective now running for sixth-semester students across Amritapuri, Coimbatore, and Bangalore campuses in India. The program is small in enrollment but large in signal: more than 70...

Orion Innovation and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham launched a co-branded Applied Generative AI elective on June 4, 2026, delivering hands-on AI coursework to sixth-semester students across Amrita’s Amritapuri, Coimbatore, and Bengaluru campuses in India. The announcement is modest in scale — a...

At Microsoft Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2, Microsoft announced new AI agents, developer tooling, Azure and Foundry capabilities, security controls, Windows agent infrastructure, and a slate of in-house MAI models meant to give developers and enterprises more control over AI systems. The...

Microsoft used Build 2026 on June 2, 2026, to frame Windows, GitHub, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Foundry, Rayfin, HorizonDB and its IQ context layers as one operating platform for building, running and governing agentic AI systems. The pitch was not merely that Microsoft has more AI features. It was...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2 to introduce MAI-Thinking-1, its first in-house reasoning model, alongside six other MAI models spanning coding, image generation, transcription, and voice, positioning the launch as a shipping turn in its post-OpenAI-exclusivity AI strategy...

Microsoft used its Build 2026 developer moment to push a more self-reliant AI strategy, promoting proprietary Microsoft AI models and Azure alternatives that reduce its dependence on OpenAI while keeping the partnership alive for Copilot, Azure AI, and enterprise customers. This is not a...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco and online on June 2 to make Microsoft IQ generally available across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Copilot Studio, positioning it as an enterprise intelligence layer for data, context, agents, and governance. The announcement is not just...

Microsoft Build 2026 opens June 2 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco with Satya Nadella’s keynote scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Pacific, and the published agenda points to Copilot, AI agents, Azure AI Foundry, and Windows local AI rather than a Windows 12 reveal. That is not an accidental omission...

Microsoft Build 2026 is scheduled for June 2–3, 2026, at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and online, with Satya Nadella opening the conference at 10 a.m. Pacific on June 2 before an audience Microsoft is explicitly narrowing around AI developers, technical leaders, and enterprise builders...

Microsoft is expected to unveil a suite of homegrown AI models at its Build developer conference in San Francisco on June 2–3, 2026, including a coding model aimed at strengthening GitHub Copilot, according to reporting attributed to The Information and Reuters. The announcement, if it lands as...

Microsoft Build 2026 runs June 2–3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and online, with Microsoft expected to focus less on a hypothetical Windows 12 reveal and more on AI agents, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Windows AI tooling, and the developer plumbing behind its next software cycle...

Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-35435 on May 7, 2026, as a critical Azure AI Foundry elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Microsoft 365 published agents, caused by improper access control and already mitigated by Microsoft with no customer action required. That is the comforting version of the...

AI is no longer just helping startups write code faster; it is increasingly helping them carry work across the whole software lifecycle, from development to deployment to ongoing operations. Microsoft’s own startup messaging says the shift is moving from code generation to agentic workflows that...

Recently Microsoft has pushed image generation deeper into its own AI stack with MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a lower-cost sibling to MAI-Image-2 that is designed for speed, throughput, and enterprise deployment. The company says the model is now in public preview in Microsoft Foundry and MAI...

Anthropic’s decision to recruit former Microsoft Azure AI executive Eric Boyd is more than a headline-grabbing talent move. It is a signal that the company’s next phase will be won or lost on infrastructure: compute capacity, model serving reliability, and the operational discipline required to...

HM Courts & Tribunals Service has become one of the clearest public-sector examples of what happens when a large, complex organisation stops treating platform engineering as plumbing and starts treating it as a product. In a new Microsoft customer story published this week, HMCTS describes how...

Microsoft’s new MAI model family is more than a product announcement; it is a signal that the company wants to own a larger share of the AI stack instead of relying so heavily on outside frontier labs. On April 2, 2026, Microsoft publicly previewed MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2...

Microsoft’s February 27, 2025 Azure AI Foundry update is more than a routine model refresh. It is a clear signal that Microsoft wants Azure to be the place where frontier models, smaller efficient models, and enterprise-grade controls all converge in one stack. The headline addition is GPT-4.5...

Microsoft’s latest AI model push marks an important turning point for the company: it is no longer content to simply package OpenAI’s breakthroughs inside Copilot and Azure, but is now building and shipping more of its own foundational stack. On April 2, 2026, Microsoft AI publicly surfaced...