Microsoft’s latest push to tame the complexity of agentic AI landed today with the public preview of the Microsoft Agent Framework, matched by cloud-level enhancements in Azure AI Foundry and the general availability of the Voice Live API — a coordinated release that stitches research...
Microsoft’s new Agent Framework and the expanded Azure AI Foundry mark a decisive push to make agentic AI practical for enterprise development, deployment, and governance — but the move raises equally important questions about operational complexity, observability, and risk management. The...
Azure’s new Agent Factory blueprint reframes trust as the primary design constraint for enterprise agents and presents Azure AI Foundry as a layered, identity‑first platform that combines identity, guardrails, continuous evaluation, and enterprise governance to keep agentic AI safe, auditable...
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Microsoft’s new Agent Factory narrative makes a simple but decisive argument: building a single clever agent is no longer enough—real business value arrives when agents, tools, and enterprise systems interoperate through open protocols, enterprise connectors, and built‑in governance so agents...
Azure’s ongoing evolution as a cloud services leader pivots significantly around the critical theme of observability, and recent moves to integrate first-class OpenTelemetry (OTel) support for both Logic Apps and Azure Functions signal a deepening commitment to industry standards and...
Microsoft’s continued push for open and standardized observability has taken a big leap forward, as Azure Logic Apps (Standard and Hybrid) and Azure Functions introduce support for OpenTelemetry, the open-source observability framework that has become a de facto standard for tracing, logging...