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Microsoft published its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report on July 9, 2026, covering fiscal year 2025 against a 2020 baseline, and the headline is this: Microsoft matched 100% of its annual electricity use with renewable energy, replenished more water globally than it withdrew, and...

Anthropic and Microsoft made Claude models generally available in Microsoft Foundry in early July 2026, but the launch leaves European enterprises without guaranteed EU-hosted inference for Claude through Azure’s AI platform. That is the uncomfortable center of the announcement: the integration...

Microsoft made Anthropic’s Claude models generally available in Microsoft Foundry on June 29, 2026, giving Azure customers production access to Claude through existing Azure accounts, identity controls, billing relationships, networking choices, and governance systems. The announcement is not...

Anthropic’s Claude models became generally available in Microsoft Foundry on June 29, 2026, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra GPUs in Azure for enterprise customers that want to build domain-specific and autonomous AI agents. The announcement is less about another model appearing in...

Microsoft is considering an Azure-hosted DeepSeek model as a cheaper option for its Copilot Cowork enterprise agent, a June 2026 move that collides with Australia’s government ban on DeepSeek and arrives after repeated Copilot reliability, security, and adoption concerns. The company’s pitch is...

On May 26, 2026, Microsoft published a customer story saying Danish financial technology provider SimCorp has unified its SimCorp One investment-management platform on Microsoft Azure, using standardized SaaS architecture, Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Foundry, Azure OpenAI, and Azure AI...