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EPAM’s recognition as the 2025 Microsoft Innovate with Azure AI Platform Partner of the Year underscores how large systems integrators are shaping the enterprise AI market by combining platform depth, engineering scale, and responsible-AI controls to move pilots into production at scale...

Land O’Lakes and Microsoft have announced a multiyear alliance that brings a production-grade AI copilot named Oz into the heart of U.S. agriculture — a mobile-first digital assistant tuned to Land O’Lakes’ decades of agronomic knowledge and hosted on Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry to deliver...

Nimble Gravity has been named a Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year finalist in the Emerging SI category — a recognition the firm announced in a press release and local coverage that frames the award as validation of its rapid growth, production-grade AI practice, and deepening partnership...

Microsoft’s decision to flip the switch on a second Fairwater AI datacenter in Atlanta — and to explicitly link it with the Wisconsin Fairwater campus into what the company calls a planet‑scale “AI superfactory” — is the most tangible demonstration yet that hyperscalers are converting cloud...

From startup to standout, Nimble Gravity says it has been named a finalist for the Microsoft Americas Partner of the Year Awards in the Emerging SI (Systems Integrator) category — a recognition that, if independently confirmed, would mark a significant milestone for a young, Azure‑focused...

KPMG has announced that it has earned two additional Microsoft advanced specializations — AI for Microsoft Copilot and Build AI Apps on Microsoft Azure — reinforcing the firm’s long-running push to embed Microsoft AI and cloud capabilities across its audit, advisory, and client-delivery...

Microsoft’s public pivot from a deep, exclusive dependency on OpenAI to an explicitly dual-track strategy — one that preserves partnership but frees Microsoft to build its own frontier models — is now official and consequential for Windows users, enterprise customers, and the broader cloud...

Microsoft and Barcelona‑based INBRAIN Neuroelectronics have announced a strategic collaboration that pairs INBRAIN’s graphene‑based brain‑computer interface (BCI‑Tx) hardware with Microsoft Azure’s agentic AI tooling and time‑series model capabilities, with the stated aim of building...

August AI’s decision to rebuild on Microsoft Azure marks a defining moment for startup healthcare AI: the Bengaluru-based company migrated several terabytes of patient data to a new Azure architecture in three months with no reported customer downtime, scaled from roughly 500,000 users to a...

Microsoft and Barcelona-based INBRAIN Neuroelectronics have announced a strategic collaboration to pair INBRAIN’s graphene-based brain‑computer interface (BCI) therapeutics platform with Microsoft’s Azure AI stack — including large language models and time‑series agent tooling — with the stated...

KPMG’s announcement that it has earned additional Microsoft AI credentials — namely advanced specializations for AI for Microsoft Copilot and Build AI Apps on Microsoft Azure — is more than a badge change; it signals a deliberate push by one of the Big Four to convert early AI experimentation...

The Server Side’s recent roundup of sample AI‑102 practice questions and the market around third‑party exam materials delivers a useful, candid snapshot: the AI‑102 (Azure AI Engineer Associate) exam tests applied, operational skills across Azure’s AI stack, and while reputable practice exams...

Mott MacDonald’s new enterprise agent, EMMA — Every Mott MacDonald Answer — shows how a global engineering consultancy can convert dispersed institutional knowledge into an actionable, auditable, and secure assistant by building on Azure’s emerging agent platform and Microsoft 365 ecosystem. The...

Decagon’s pitch is simple but consequential: replace brittle, one-size-fits-all chatbots with an always-on, concierge-grade AI agent that reasons across systems, executes workflows, and learns from every interaction — and do it in a way that business teams can own. The company’s Agent Operating...

Microsoft’s latest AI push folds two big moves into one clear strategic play: a multibillion-dollar, in-region infrastructure and partnership program in the United Arab Emirates that formalizes sovereign cloud and in‑country Copilot processing, and a rapid rollout of Nvidia’s Blackwell family of...

Napster’s announcement that it is among the first Microsoft partners to deploy Azure agentic AI for enterprises marks a pragmatic shift from experimental pilots to productized, low-latency conversational agents—an advance with clear promise for customer experience and equally clear operational...

Microsoft’s Azure team has pushed a single rack‑scale system to an industry record of roughly 1.1 million tokens per second, using ND_GB300_v6 virtual machines built on NVIDIA’s GB300 (Blackwell Ultra) NVL72 rack — a headline milestone that proves rack‑scale inference at industrial throughput is...

Microsoft’s new ND GB300 v6 virtual machines have cracked a milestone that changes the practical limits of public‑cloud AI inference: one NVL72 rack of Blackwell Ultra GPUs sustained an aggregated throughput of roughly 1.1 million tokens per second, a result validated by an independent benchmark...

Satya Nadella’s announcement that Microsoft will "grow our headcount" again — but only with far more leverage thanks to AI — signals a deliberate shift in how the company plans to rebuild after a year of widespread cost-cutting and reorganisation. The comment, made on investor Brad Gerstner’s...

Elastic’s new integration with Azure AI Foundry brings real‑time observability to agentic AI and large language model (LLM) workloads, delivering pre‑built dashboards for token usage, latency, cost tracking, and content filtering inside the Elastic Observability environment — currently available...