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Microsoft Build 2026 is scheduled for June 2–3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, moving Microsoft’s flagship developer conference away from its recent Seattle pattern and into a smaller, AI-focused format aimed at roughly 2,500 in-person attendees plus a free online audience. That venue...

Akkuro, by Topicus is using Azure Red Hat OpenShift in Switzerland to run its Akkuro Lending platform, combining regulated in-country document processing, Azure OpenAI-powered extraction, and repeatable Kubernetes deployment so Swiss SME lenders can move credit decisions from weeks toward days...

Microsoft’s latest showcase for enterprise AI is not a chatbot in an office suite but a New Zealand infrastructure database: Beca has added a natural-language AI layer to the New Zealand Geotechnical Database, using Azure, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure OpenAI to make buried ground data easier to...

Microsoft and OpenAI have rewritten one of the most important commercial agreements in the artificial intelligence industry, turning a once-exclusive model relationship into a broader, multi-cloud arrangement that opens the door to AWS, Google Cloud, and other enterprise platforms. The move...

Microsoft and OpenAI have rewritten the rules of one of the technology industry’s most consequential alliances, turning a once-exclusive cloud relationship into a more flexible multi-cloud AI partnership while keeping Azure at the center of the story. The amended agreement, announced on April...

The Institut du Cancer de Montpellier’s deployment of Miroki, an AI-enabled companion robot running on Microsoft Azure and Azure OpenAI Service, is more than a feel-good healthcare pilot. It is a carefully engineered response to a very specific clinical problem: children undergoing radiation...

Adactin’s new AFIVE platform is a timely sign that enterprise AI is moving beyond chatbot novelty and into the harder, more valuable territory of knowledge operations. Built to find, manage, and use information across fragmented systems, the platform combines Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry...

OpenAI quietly reversing its public ban on military use of its models has become one of the clearest fault lines in modern AI policy — a move that preceded, intersected with, and now complicates the Pentagon’s increasing use of Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI services, internal employee unrest, and a...

Microsoft’s AI pivot isn't a marketing slogan anymore — it’s the architecture of the software you open every morning, the cloud that runs your company's tools, and a major thesis shaping portfolios on Wall Street. Overview Microsoft has moved from incremental AI features to making artificial...

CoStar’s Homes AI is live on Homes.com today, and it’s more than a flashy demo — it’s an explicit bet that conversational, voice-enabled AI will replace menu-driven filters as the primary way consumers discover and evaluate homes online. Background: what CoStar announced and why it matters...

Homes.com’s new Homes AI, launched today by CoStar Group, plugs advanced conversational AI into residential property search — voice and text search powered by Microsoft Azure OpenAI that promises to turn brittle filter-based browsing into a real-time, consultative experience for home shoppers...

RUX Software’s new Service Diagnostics with Copilot marks a clear pivot: field technicians will no longer need to be part-manual researcher, part-repairer—AI will now shoulder the bulk of diagnosis, ticket creation, parts identification, and initial labor estimation for equipment service...

Wesfarmers’ decision to formalise a multi‑year strategic partnership with Microsoft signals a clear shift from experimentation to production-ready AI across one of Australia’s largest retail groups — and it comes with ambitious targets, clear technical choices, and a set of governance and...

Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service suffered a prolonged outage in the Sweden Central region on 27 January 2026, leaving customers in the region — including those constrained by EU data‑residency requirements — unable to run inference and realtime workloads for much of the working day. The failure...

Satya Nadella’s remarks in Davos and on the All‑In podcast mark a practical pivot: artificial intelligence is no longer an academic curiosity or demo spectacle but a commercial scaffold for the next generation of SaaS, workplace automation, and enterprise agents — and Microsoft intends to be at...

Esri’s announced integration of Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service into ArcGIS is a deliberate step to fold large-scale, conversational AI and Microsoft’s Foundry Models into mainstream geospatial workflows — and it will reshape how analysts, planners, and decision-makers interact with maps, spatial...

Microsoft is pivoting its AI strategy from headline-grabbing demos to pragmatic, measurable adoption—embedding generative AI across Windows, Microsoft 365, and Azure while building tools and metrics designed to drive real usage in businesses, government, and consumer environments. Background...

Origin Digital’s announcement that it has earned Microsoft’s Advanced Specialization for AI Platform on Microsoft Azure signals a meaningful vendor milestone: the company has passed Microsoft’s audited gates for production‑grade AI delivery and is positioning itself as a validated integrator for...

Origin Digital’s announcement that it has earned Microsoft’s Advanced Specialization for AI Platform on Microsoft Azure marks a clear signal: the company has passed Microsoft’s audit gates and is positioning itself as a validated partner for production‑grade AI work on Azure, promising customers...

Relativity’s investment in generative AI for legal data intelligence is a study in disciplined product engineering: the company built Relativity aiR on a Microsoft Azure foundation to accelerate e‑discovery and investigations while prioritizing defensibility, auditability, and enterprise trust...