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Microsoft’s new MAI transcription model lands at an important moment for the company, for enterprise AI buyers, and for anyone watching the balance of power between Redmond and OpenAI. On April 2, 2026, Microsoft began broadly surfacing its in-house MAI model family in Microsoft Foundry...

Microsoft is broadening its AI portfolio beyond chat, and that shift matters more than a routine product launch. The company has now moved deeper into voice, transcription, and image generation, adding new in-house models that are designed to make Copilot, Foundry, Bing, and PowerPoint feel less...

Microsoft’s posture in the escalating AI arms race is less of a sprint and more of a carefully paced relay: the company is widening its model catalog, leaning into compute and bespoke silicon, and publicly describing its role as a neutral host for multiple frontier models — even as investors and...

Bloom Consulting Services’ announcement that it is expanding its Azure AI Services portfolio by integrating Microsoft Azure AI Foundry is a clear signal that mid‑market Azure partners are moving quickly to package Microsoft’s latest enterprise AI tooling into end‑to‑end offers for customers —...

NTT’s “Building for AI: Modernizing applications with Microsoft Azure” positions AI as the central force reshaping application modernization—and it’s a practical roadmap, not just a marketing slogan. rview Cloud-first modernization has entered a new phase: AI-first modernization. The...

EisnerAmper’s new EisnerAI Audit Design Agent — built on Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry — is already being positioned as a watershed moment for assurance: a cloud-native, agent-driven research assistant that the firm says will touch every one of its roughly 18,000 audits, accelerate risk...