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- Announcements
- Jun 9
- 4 min read
Claude Fable 5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry: Powering the next era of autonomous agents

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Announcements
Jun 2
9 min read

Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview

At Microsoft Build, we are announcing that Microsoft Discovery is now generally available for all organizations, providing a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows.

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Announcements
Jun 2
14 min read

Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases

Microsoft Build 2026 highlights advancements in app development with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases, emphasizing a unified data and AI platform for scalable, agentic applications.

Thought leadership
Jun 2
7 min read

New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads

We are announcing the early access preview for Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based Virtual Machines (VMs), designed for Linux-based agentic AI workloads.

Hear from our Azure leaders

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Announcements
May 13
5 min read

From commit to cloud: Powering what’s next for PostgreSQL

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Thought leadership
May 6
7 min read

Scaling cloud and AI: Microsoft Azure’s commitment to Europe’s digital future

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Announcements
Apr 30
3 min read

Enforcing trust and transparency: Open-sourcing the Azure Integrated HSM

AI and machine learning

- Thought leadership
- Jun 2
- 9 min read
AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will.
- Announcements
- Jun 2
- 7 min read
A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry
- Announcements
- Jun 2
- 7 min read
Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval

Azure infrastructure

- Announcements
- May 22
- 4 min read
Powering multi-cluster workloads with seamless cross‑cluster networking for Azure Kubernetes Fleet Manager
- Thought leadership
- May 22
- 4 min read
Azure NetApp Files for EDA workloads: From revolution to breakthrough at scale
- Thought leadership
- May 20
- 7 min read
Azure IaaS: Deploy high-performance workloads with a system-level approach

App development

- Thought leadership
- Apr 9
- 7 min read
How Drasi used GitHub Copilot to find documentation bugs
- Announcements
- Mar 11
- 6 min read
Many agents, one team: Scaling modernization on Azure
- Announcements
- Feb 2
- 5 min read
PostgreSQL on Azure supercharged for AI

Database and analytics

- Announcements
- Mar 18
- 12 min read
FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform
- Events
- Feb 9
- 2 min read
Five Reasons to attend SQLCon
- Announcements
- Nov 18, 2025
- 12 min read
Microsoft Databases and Microsoft Fabric: Your unified and AI-powered data estate

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