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Responsible AI investments and safeguards for Facial Recognition
Target retirement date: July 01, 2023
The Cognitive Services team has updated our approach to facial recognition including adding a new Limited Access policy, removing AI classifiers of sensitive attributes and bolstering our investments in fairness and transparency.
October 2019
Twelve Cognitive Services are available for free with an Azure free account
Twelve Cognitive Services are now available for free with an Azure free account. Give your apps, websites and bots the ability to see, understand and interpret people’s needs using natural methods of communication.
August 2019
Cognitive Services - Azure Active Directory authentication and custom subdomains are now in preview
Target availability: Q4 2019
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication allows you to authenticate to Cognitive Services using Azure AD or user principals. This capability provides greater flexibility for managing access to Cognitive Services and makes it easier to use existing policies for credential rotation and to enforce custom password standards.
April 2019
Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified
Video Indexer has received new certifications to fit with enterprise certification requirements.
March 2019
Video Indexer is now ISO, SOC, HiTRUST, FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI certified
Video Indexer has received new certifications to fit with enterprise certification requirements.
November 2018
Azure Cognitive Services Containers are in preview
Deploy Azure Cognitive Services on-premises and on the edge with container support in Cognitive Services. Cognitive Services containers allow developers to use the same intelligent APIs that are available in Azure, but with the flexibility that comes with Docker containers.
October 2018
Azure Cognitive Services available in new regions
New regions are now available for Azure Cognitive Services. The Content Moderator, Computer Vision, Face, Translator Text and Language Understanding (LUIS) Services are now generally available in US Government regions.
May 2017
Microsoft Cognitive Services – Video Indexer
Video Indexer will soon be available free in preview. This new service will represent one of the industry’s most comprehensive video AI services.
April 2016
Public preview: Microsoft Cognitive Services
Microsoft Cognitive Services is a collection of APIs available to developers to make their applications more intelligent and engaging.
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