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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...

Elastic has quietly landed a practical — and timely — piece of infrastructure for enterprise AI: an integration between Elastic Observability and Azure AI Foundry that delivers real‑time telemetry, pre‑built dashboards, and operational controls designed specifically for agentic AI and large...

Microsoft’s Azure is no longer just a cloud for storage and virtual machines — it’s becoming the enterprise-grade platform where companies build, host, govern and monetize AI at scale, and Microsoft is staking the company’s future on that bet by bundling infrastructure, model choice, developer...

Neudesic today unveiled a purpose-built Digital Workforce Management platform that promises to move enterprises from piecemeal agent pilots to a governed, Azure-native production environment for autonomous and semi‑autonomous AI agents. Background Azure AI Foundry emerged as Microsoft’s...

HCLSoftware and Microsoft have launched a global collaboration to deliver HCLSoftware’s new Xperience‑Data‑Operations (XDO) blueprint on Microsoft Azure, packaging HCL’s enterprise software portfolio as Azure‑hosted offerings available through the Microsoft commercial marketplace—and positioning...

Microsoft’s move to fold research tooling and enterprise primitives into a single open‑source SDK — the Microsoft Agent Framework — marks a decisive moment in the shift from one‑off LLM assistants to durable, multi‑agent automation designed for real business workflows. The Agent Framework brings...

Microsoft is doubling down on the physical work of AI—ramping GPU capacity, signing multi‑billion dollar infrastructure deals, and building “AI‑first” datacenters—because analysts now expect that Azure’s revenue growth will re‑accelerate as those investments come online. Background Microsoft’s...

Microsoft Copilot is no longer an experimental add‑on — it’s a working partner inside Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint and Windows, and with Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry it’s now a platform you can shape to your organization’s workflows. Background — why this matters now Artificial...

Microsoft and NVIDIA’s joint announcements at GTC DC mark a decisive step toward turning rack-scale supercomputing and multimodal reasoning models into enterprise-grade, production-ready tools — from on‑premises Azure Local appliances to cloud‑scale GB300 NVL72 clusters and new model families in...

RIB Software has announced a strategic collaboration with Microsoft to embed Azure cloud and AI services — explicitly including Azure AI Foundry and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) — across RIB’s construction software portfolio, positioning the company to deliver AI-native workflows for...

Microsoft’s Azure and Collective Artists Network’s Galleri5 have announced a strategic collaboration that places cloud-scale AI at the center of a new production playbook for Indian filmmaking and serialized storytelling, with the partnership explicitly tying Galleri5’s creator‑tech studio to...