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Microsoft Build 2026 runs June 2–3 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco and online, with Microsoft expected to focus less on a hypothetical Windows 12 reveal and more on AI agents, GitHub Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Windows AI tooling, and the developer plumbing behind its next software cycle...

Nvidia and Microsoft used Microsoft Build 2026 to expand their AI partnership into a unified stack spanning Windows PCs, deskside DGX systems, Azure infrastructure, Microsoft Foundry, and Nvidia’s model and runtime software for agentic AI workloads. The announcement is not merely another GPU...

Microsoft used Build 2026 in San Francisco and online on June 2 to make Microsoft IQ generally available across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Copilot Studio, positioning it as an enterprise intelligence layer for data, context, agents, and governance. The announcement is not just...

Microsoft is preparing MAI-Image-2.5, MAI-Transcribe-1.5, and MAI-Voice-2 for its Build 2026 developer conference, which opens June 2 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, with the new models aimed at Copilot, Teams, Azure Speech, Microsoft Foundry, and MAI Playground. The interesting part is...

On May 20, 2026, Informatica from Salesforce announced expanded Microsoft integrations that put its Headless Intelligent Data Management Cloud into Microsoft Foundry via MCP servers and extend Microsoft Fabric support with mass ingestion and Change Data Capture for Fabric Data Warehouse. The...

Microsoft says Gallagher, the global insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has built a governed enterprise AI platform on Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Purview to speed claims review, quote workflows, M&A document analysis, and daily work for more than...

Microsoft Foundry is Microsoft’s unified Azure platform for building, deploying, observing, and governing AI applications and agents, bringing agents, models, tools, memory, evaluation, and enterprise controls into one managed environment for developers, data scientists, and IT teams. The pitch...

Microsoft has put OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 into Microsoft Foundry, signaling another major step in the company’s effort to turn frontier models into enterprise systems that can actually be deployed, governed, and scaled. The announcement, published on April 23, 2026, frames GPT-5.5 as a model built for...

OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is arriving in Microsoft Foundry as another clear sign that the enterprise AI race has moved past novelty and into operations. Microsoft is positioning the model not just as a smarter assistant, but as a production-ready component for agentic systems that need persistence, tool...

Postman’s latest collaboration with Microsoft is less a simple partner announcement than a signal about where enterprise API development is heading. The company is pushing AI model choice, tighter governance, and more workflow continuity into a single experience that spans design, testing...

Microsoft’s launch of MAI-Image-2-Efficient signals a clear shift in how the company wants enterprises to think about image generation: not as a single premium model for every job, but as a tiered production stack where speed, cost, and output quality can be matched to the workload. The new...

Pipefy’s new multi-year collaboration with Microsoft is more than a standard partner announcement. It signals how enterprise software vendors are trying to turn AI from a collection of pilots into a governed operating model, with Microsoft Foundry as the model and agent layer and Microsoft...

Microsoft is making a sharper bid for control of its AI future, and the implications go well beyond a single model launch. With MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, the company is not just adding capabilities to Foundry and Copilot; it is signaling that it wants to own more of the...

Microsoft’s latest AI move is less a product launch than a declaration of independence. On April 2, 2026, the company unveiled three in-house foundation models — MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 — and made them available through Microsoft Foundry and the MAI Playground. The timing...

Microsoft’s new MAI-Image-2 is more than just another image generator launch; it is a signal that Microsoft wants a first-party seat at the center of the visual AI market. The company says the model is now available in Microsoft Foundry preview, already powers parts of its own product stack, and...

Microsoft’s latest MAI rollout is bigger than a product update, and smaller than the breathless “AI domination” framing making the rounds. What the company has actually done is introduce MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 as first-party models inside Microsoft Foundry, with immediate...

Microsoft’s latest AI push is less about a flashy chatbot update and more about a structural shift in how the company wants to compete. With MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, Microsoft is moving beyond text-only systems and into a fuller multimodal AI stack that spans speech...

Microsoft’s latest AI push is less about flashy chatbot demos and more about filling the missing pieces of a complete multimodal stack. With MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2, the company is broadening Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground beyond text into speech, transcription, and...

Microsoft’s decision to open its MAI speech and image stack to developers marks more than a routine model launch. It is a clear signal that the company wants its in-house AI family to compete as a full platform, not just a set of Copilot features. With MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and...

Microsoft’s move to ship three in-house AI models is more than a product launch; it is a clear statement that the company wants to control more of the AI stack itself. On April 2, 2026, Microsoft made MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 broadly available through Microsoft Foundry and...