Microsoft plans multi-gigawatt rollout for custom Azure Maia chips

The custom silicon programme will underpin inference for Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry and Dragon Copilot.

Yahoo Finance·1d ago

Microsoft Decision-1 Is 35x Quicker Than GPT-6 Sol. Here Is the 30 Minute Router Test

by Chinmay Shringi — The model is post trained on Alibaba Qwen3.5–9B, ships in Foundry and OpenRouter, and returns calibrated probabilities instead of prose.

Medium·2d ago

Handoff Orchestration in Microsoft Agent Framework

Day 27 of 100 — Microsoft Foundry: 100 Days / 100 Blogs Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Manoranjan Rajguru·4d ago

What Is Memory in Microsoft Foundry Agent Service? A Practical Guide for AI Engineers

by Mohamed Essam — How long-term memory helps AI agents remember users, maintain context across sessions, and deliver personalized experiences

Medium·6d ago

What 51 Technical Deep Dives Reveal About Running AI Agents in Production

by Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ — Across Microsoft Foundry, Fabric, GitHub Copilot, .NET 11, SRE, and security, the same three questions decided whether an agent was ready…

Medium·Oct 5

Is Microsoft Foundry a sensible choice for UK IT teams?

Microsoft Foundry is a sensible shortlist option for UK small and mid-sized businesses that want to build AI applications without running model infrastructure.

Compare the Cloud·Oct 1

Securing Copilot, Copilot Studio, and Foundry: a plan in six phases

Microsoft has published a five-article series on securing AI: build a posture, prepare, discover, protect, govern. It is useful, and it is… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Ahmed Thabit·1d ago

Microsoft Just Joined the Decision-Model Race: Decision-1 vs OpenAI vs Jev, Compared

by Vinay Bhaskarla — Satya Nadella announced Microsoft-Decision-1 on Foundry today: single-pass decision scoring, 35x faster than GPT-6 Sol, 4 cents per…

Coding Nexus·3d ago

Part 4 — Microsoft Foundry for Beginners: Automate Your Agents with Routines

So far in this series, we have created agents, worked with them from VS Code, and built multi-agent workflows. But we have always started… Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · alpa buddhabhatti·5d ago

Connecting Azure AI Foundry Agents to Microsoft Copilot

Alphr·6d ago

36 Tools in the Terminal, 27 When Hosted: Taking an AI Agent to Production

by Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ — What the Microsoft Agent Framework’s harness sample removes before it deploys to Foundry, and the tracing, Purview checks, and evals it…

CodeToDeploy·Oct 4

Inside Track - Rebuilding our Microsoft Foundry Labs site with a three-people build team and AI

Microsoft·Oct 1

Intel (INTC) Stock Under Pressure as Turnaround Faces New Test

Intel stock slides toward $100 as Microsoft advances AI chips, while funding fears and foundry losses test the recovery this week.

Blockonomi·1d ago

Microsoft launches Decision-1 model in Foundry

TestingCatalog AI News·4d ago

Azure’s Health Check Restarted Its AI Service to Death for 5 Hours 55 Minutes

by chen yuan — On 29 September 2026, at 10:03 UTC, Azure OpenAI Service in Sweden Central started returning intermittent 5XX errors. Foundry Agent…

Medium·5d ago

Why Is Microsoft Foundry’s Content Filter Blocking Legitimate Medical Questions?

by Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ — An AB-100 case study: read the guardrail annotation, find the category and severity, and relax one threshold while Self-harm stays strict.

Medium·Oct 5

An AI Agent Workflow That Survives kill -9: Inside Microsoft Agent Framework’s Latest Update

by Dave R | Microsoft Azure & AI MVP ☁️ — A reproducible crash test, then AG-UI, Foundry memory, and Hyperlight CodeAct in .NET and Python, with the one guarantee each feature…

Towards AI·Oct 3

Microsoft Fabric Data Agent Masterclass : From Governed Enterprise Data to Copilot Studio, Foundry…

Bridging Governed Enterprise Data and Emerging AI Agents Continue reading on Medium »

Medium · Chris Kaspar·Sep 30