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[Launched] Generally Available: Log Analytics Summary Rules experience
A new Azure portal experience for Summary Rules in Log Analytics is now available. Summary Rules enable aggregation of...
Databricks pitches LTAP as a new foundation for agentic applications
As enterprises rush to build AI agents that can reason over business data and take action, Databricks argues that the...
Nvidia PCs don’t need cloud for AI
Nvidia’s new RTX Spark is one of the most interesting personal computing announcements in years. That’s because it’s...
Develop smarter AI agents with data fabrics
Every organization has data scattered across data warehouses, data lakes, SaaS platforms, cloud drives, and data...
Shipping enterprise-quality code with AI agents
Developers are caught between the joy — or pressure — of using agents to ship 10x faster today and the dread of how...
DocLang aims to make documents readable by AI, not humans
AIs struggle to understand documents designed for humans; the DocLang working group seeks to flip that imbalance with...
AI needs young developers – and old developers
Enterprises are increasingly investing copious amounts of cash in AI without a lot to show for it. This could be, in...
33 LLM metrics to watch closely
We’ve all heard the mantra from the quants in the business community: you can’t manage what you can’t measure. And if...
Google unveils DiffusionGemma, an AI model that breaks free of left-to-right processing
Extremely powerful large language models (LLMs) still operate as though they’re typing on a keyboard, processing...
OpenAI buys Ona to help rein in AI agents
CIOs and CISOs have many strategic and operational fears when it comes to unleashing fully-autonomous agents on tasks...
Software engineer reportedly wins religious exemption from AI use
When Pope Leo XIV wrote about the effect that AI is having on our world in his encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, he may...
Why cloud outages are such a stubborn problem
For years, the cloud market has made a simple promise: Move workloads to large-scale platforms, gain better...
Retirement: Av2-series, F-series, Fs-series, Fsv2-series, G-series, Gs-series, and Lsv2-series Virtual Machines for Azure Batch pools
Azure Compute will retire the following Virtual Machine series on November 15, 2028, impacting Azure Batch pools that...
Retirement: D-series, Ds-series, Dv2-series, Dsv2-series, and Ls-series Virtual Machines for Azure Batch pools
Azure Compute will retire the following Virtual Machine series on May 1, 2028, impacting Azure Batch pools that rely...
Retirement: GPv1 and Legacy Blob storage account creation
As part of our ongoing efforts to streamline the Azure Storage portfolio and deliver enhanced performance,...
[Launched] Generally Available: SQL MCP Server
SQL MCP Server is now generally available, giving customers a secure, high-performance way to build agentic solutions...
Retirement: Azure Load Balancer Inbound NAT rule version 1 for Azure VMSS (aka Inbound NAT Pools)
Update to our previous communication: We previously announced the retirement of all Inbound NAT rules version 1...
Microsoft open sources AI evaluation framework for enterprise agents
Microsoft has open-sourced an AI evaluation framework that converts natural-language requirements into executable...
Databricks’ OpenSharing targets the ‘integration tax’ of enterprise AI
Databricks on Wednesday unveiled OpenSharing, a new open protocol designed to let enterprises share AI models, agent...
It’s crunch time for Java modernization
Between 2029 and 2032, every currently supported long-term support (LTS) version of Java will reach end-of-support...