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Microsoft used Build 2026 in early June to position Microsoft Fabric as the enterprise data and context platform for AI agents, announcing Azure HorizonDB, GPU-accelerated Fabric Data Warehouse, and Fabric IQ integrations aimed squarely at Snowflake, Databricks, and the growing market for...

CVE-2026-48567 is a Microsoft-disclosed elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Azure HorizonDB, the company’s preview PostgreSQL-compatible database service for AI-era applications, published through the MSRC Security Update Guide on June 4, 2026, with public technical detail limited chiefly to...

Microsoft used the opening day of Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2 to put Azure HorizonDB into public preview and to expose Web IQ, the web-grounding layer it says already supports Copilot and ChatGPT. The announcement is not just another database launch dressed in AI language. It is...

Microsoft used Build 2026 on June 2, 2026, to frame Windows, GitHub, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Foundry, Rayfin, HorizonDB and its IQ context layers as one operating platform for building, running and governing agentic AI systems. The pitch was not merely that Microsoft has more AI features. It was...

Microsoft’s preview of Azure HorizonDB signals a deliberate push to make PostgreSQL the anchor of large, cloud‑native and AI‑driven workloads on Azure, blending a scale‑out, disaggregated storage model with native vector search and an engine partly written in Rust. Background Azure has offered...

Microsoft's Azure HorizonDB launches as a full‑scale, cloud‑native distributed PostgreSQL service that aims to reframe how enterprises run transactional and AI‑augmented workloads in Azure, promising major gains in read scale, vector search, and integration with Microsoft's AI and Fabric...

Microsoft has quietly moved to make PostgreSQL the center of its next-generation data strategy with the launch of Azure HorizonDB — a managed, PostgreSQL-compatible, scale-out database engineered for cloud-native, AI-driven workloads and enterprise modernization. Background PostgreSQL's...

Microsoft’s preview of Azure HorizonDB marks a deliberate push to position a PostgreSQL-compatible, AI‑native managed database at the center of application modernization and next‑generation AI workloads — promising scale, built‑in vector search, and close integration with Microsoft’s AI and...