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Qualcomm used its June 24, 2026 Investor Day in New York to announce a full data center push built around Dragonfly server CPUs, AI accelerators, High Bandwidth Compute, a Meta server deal, a Microsoft Azure architecture agreement, and a $3.9 billion plan to acquire Modular. The message was not...

Microsoft and Temenos used Temenos Community Forum 2026 to promote an Azure AI integration with Temenos Core Banking that is meant to let banks run governed, multi-step “agentic operations” inside modern core banking workflows. The announcement matters because it moves the AI pitch from the...

FPT Corporation expanded its strategic collaboration with Microsoft on June 25, 2026, in Hanoi, targeting faster enterprise AI deployment across ASEAN, Japan and South Korea through joint work on generative AI, agentic AI, Microsoft cloud platforms and repeatable industry architectures. The...

Researchers from MIT and Microsoft Azure have unveiled Murakkab, a system scheduled for presentation at OSDI 2026 that lets developers describe agentic AI workflows in plain language while automatically optimizing models, tools, hardware, scheduling, energy use, and cloud cost at deployment...

Eudia announced on June 25, 2026, that it is collaborating with Microsoft to bring its “Expert Digital Twins” legal AI platform into Microsoft 365, Azure infrastructure, and Microsoft’s enterprise co-sell motion for corporate legal and business teams. The announcement is not just another vendor...

Eudia announced on June 25, 2026, from Palo Alto, California, that it is collaborating with Microsoft to bring its Expert Digital Twins and specialized legal AI agents into Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Marketplace, and Microsoft’s enterprise co-sell motion. The announcement is not...

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...

Microsoft moved Copilot Cowork to usage-based billing in June 2026, kept Microsoft 365 Copilot licensing as the entry ticket, and is weighing cheaper model options including Azure-hosted DeepSeek as Chinese demand for AI services reportedly accelerates through Azure. The pricing change is not...

Microsoft Thailand and the Artificial Intelligence Association of Thailand concluded the Microsoft AI Engineering Skills and Hackathon for Employment 2026 program in June 2026, after a February-to-May training-and-competition track that moved Thai learners from online coursework into Azure-based...

Microsoft is moving Copilot Cowork, its enterprise agent for Microsoft 365 work, to usage-based billing as of its broader 2026 rollout, while reportedly considering an Azure-hosted, fine-tuned DeepSeek V4 option to lower model costs for customers. That is the immediate news, but the larger...

Microsoft is reportedly selling access to OpenAI models to major Chinese technology companies through Azure, with ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent among the buyers, while the traffic is served from offshore cloud facilities including Singapore rather than from Microsoft’s mainland...

Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available worldwide on June 16, 2026, for Microsoft 365 Copilot customers, turning a three-month Frontier preview of its long-running, multi-tool agent into a paid usage-based service governed through Copilot Credits and Microsoft 365 admin controls for...

Microsoft’s Bay Area team on June 17, 2026 profiled Worlds, a company led by founder and CEO Dave Copps that uses existing cameras, sensors, Azure infrastructure, and AI agents to convert physical operations in warehouses, facilities, fleets, and job sites into real-time intelligence. The pitch...

Microsoft is reportedly selling OpenAI-powered AI services to major Chinese companies through Azure, with ByteDance, Ant Group, Meituan, and Tencent among significant customers, despite OpenAI itself not offering direct API access in mainland China. The arrangement exposes the awkward middle...

Microsoft Azure and NVIDIA claimed on June 16, 2026, that Azure had set a new large-language-model training record in the latest MLPerf Training results, using full-stack cloud infrastructure rather than a boutique lab cluster. The announcement is not just another trophy in the AI benchmark...

Legal & General has signed a new three-year agreement with Microsoft to expand Microsoft 365 Copilot across its 10,000 global employees and deepen its use of Azure as the UK financial services group modernises customer service, data platforms, and internal operations. The announcement is not...

Microsoft appointed Gunawan Susanto as Country General Manager for Microsoft Indonesia on June 15, 2026, placing the former AWS and IBM Indonesia chief in charge of its local business as the company expands cloud and AI infrastructure, skilling programs, and partnerships across the country. The...

CIOs should trust Azure for Microsoft-adjacent AI workloads, governed enterprise pilots, and applications that benefit from Azure’s managed services, but they should design large GPU-heavy training, latency-sensitive inference, and non-Microsoft-dependent AI platforms for portability until power...

Towards Data Science published a companion to its Enterprise Document Intelligence series explaining how to replace the PyMuPDF-based parser from Article 5 with Azure AI Document Intelligence’s prebuilt-layout model for PDF parsing in retrieval-augmented generation systems. The argument is not...

Microsoft’s Copilot is not clearly falling behind competitors as of June 2026: BNP Paribas argues that its enterprise capabilities have improved sharply over the past six to twelve months, while Microsoft’s new NHS England deployment gives the product a high-profile institutional proof point...