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Pantone’s Palette Generator is the kind of product that makes you rethink two assumptions at once: first, that expertise like color theory is inherently analogue and slow; and second, that “agentic AI” is only about clever prompts and flashy models. Built as a rapid minimum viable product, the...

MongoDB’s latest set of Azure integrations — unveiled at Microsoft Ignite 2025 — stitches the company’s Atlas data platform more tightly into Microsoft’s agentic AI stack, promising easier access to live enterprise data, baked-in governance, and first-class support for embeddings and vector...

IntelePeer’s announcement that it has integrated Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB into its conversational and agentic AI platform marks a practical, production-focused step toward lowering latency, simplifying operations, and scaling Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic search for...

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...

IntelePeer’s announcement that it has integrated Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB into its conversational and agentic AI platform signals a concrete, production‑focused step toward lowering latency, simplifying operations, and bringing Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic search into...

IntelePeer’s announcement that it has integrated Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB into its conversational and agentic AI platform signals a pragmatic step toward making low-latency, production-grade AI interactions a reality for multi-location healthcare providers — and it rewrites several practical...

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...

Zilliz’s move to bring Zilliz Cloud into Microsoft Azure’s North Europe (Ireland) region is a calculated push to place production-grade vector search and retrieval infrastructure closer to European customers — a pragmatic expansion that promises lower latency, expanded data‑residency choices...

A new Principled Technologies (PT) study circulating as a press release this week argues that deploying a retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) AI application entirely on Microsoft Azure — instead of splitting model hosting and search/compute across providers — can materially improve latency...

Oracle’s recent AI wins are not just marketing copy — they’re reshaping how the company pitches cloud to enterprise buyers and investors, and they demand a sober re-evaluation of where Oracle sits in the cloud pecking order against Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud...

Microsoft’s first Release Candidate (RC0) for SQL Server 2025 is here, and it’s more than a stability checkpoint—it’s a statement of direction that blends built-in AI, developer‑friendly T‑SQL, and secure‑by‑default networking into a single, on‑premises database platform that looks and feels...

IBM’s strategy is deliberate: build industry-minded, governed AI that plugs into legacy systems and regulated workflows rather than chase consumer hype—and that choice may not win the popularity contest, but it can win durable enterprise value if the company executes the engineering...

Microsoft’s Copilot app for Windows has received a staged Insider update that adds conversational, semantic file search on Copilot+ PCs and a redesigned Copilot home that surfaces recent apps, files and conversations — all packaged in Copilot app builds starting with version 1.25082.132.0 and...

Microsoft’s Copilot for Windows has taken another step toward becoming the primary way people find and act on files and apps in Windows 11, with a staged Insider rollout that adds semantic, natural‑language file and image search and a redesigned Copilot home — features gated initially to...

Microsoft has begun expanding a staged Insider preview that brings semantic file search to Copilot+ PCs and ships a redesigned Copilot home inside the Copilot app for Windows Insiders, packaging natural‑language file and image discovery alongside a new, context‑aware workspace that surfaces...

A Microsoft Garage hackathon prototype has graduated into a commercial workstream that uses generative AI to attack permitting bottlenecks across nuclear, renewable, mining, and grid projects — a practical, high-stakes application of AI that could materially shorten the time and cost of getting...

Gieni AI took center stage at Microsoft Build 2025, emerging as a flagship example of vertical AI integration within the fast-evolving Microsoft ecosystem. Recognized by Microsoft for its innovative deployment of the new Model Context Protocol (MCP), Gieni AI showcases how artificial...

Zilliz’s latest expansion into Azure Central India marks a significant milestone in the global evolution of cloud-native vector databases. As the technological race for fast, scalable, and compliant AI data infrastructure intensifies, Zilliz is making headlines with its strategic infrastructure...

SQL Server 2025’s unveiling at Build 2025 marked a pivotal chapter not merely for Microsoft but for the greater global data management community. Its entrance into public preview has set off a cascade of anticipation, debate, and technical analysis throughout the data platform world. As one of...