Azure Ai Foundry
The latest Azure Ai Foundry coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
MAI-Thinking-1 Debuts at Build 2026 as Microsoft Pushes AI Optionality with Seven In-House Models
Microsoft dropped a bombshell at Build 2026 in San Francisco on June 2, unveiling MAI-Thinking-1, its first in-house reasoning model, alongside six other MAI models that span coding, image...
Microsoft Build 2026: How Redmond Plans to Wean Azure Off OpenAI Dependence
Microsoft is laying the groundwork for a seismic shift in its AI strategy, one that will see Azure become less reliant on OpenAI and more powered by homegrown intelligence. At the upcoming Build 2026...
Microsoft IQ Goes GA at Build 2026, Ties Enterprise Context to GitHub Copilot and Foundry
Microsoft made its long-anticipated enterprise AI fabric generally available on June 2, 2026, as Build kicked off in San Francisco. Microsoft IQ — a contextual intelligence layer that stitches...
Microsoft Build 2026: Windows, GitHub, Fabric, and Azure Unite as a Single Operating Platform for AI Agents
Microsoft’s Build 2026 conference opened on June 2 with a sweeping vision: the company’s entire product stack—from Windows and GitHub to Microsoft Fabric and Azure—is now a unified operating...
Microsoft Build 2026 to Unveil Homegrown AI Model Powering GitHub Copilot
Microsoft plans to unveil a suite of homegrown AI models at its Build developer conference in San Francisco on June 2–3, 2026. Chief among them is a specialized coding model engineered to...
Microsoft Build 2026: AI Agents, Copilot, and Windows Local AI Lead the Way
Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Build, returns to San Francisco on June 2–3, 2026, and it’s shaping up to be an AI-first event. On the historic Fort Mason Center campus and streamed...
Microsoft Build 2026 Turns Windows into a Native AI Agent Platform
Microsoft Build 2026 opens its doors on June 2 at San Francisco's Fort Mason Center, with CEO Satya Nadella scheduled to take the stage at 10 a.m. Pacific. For the first time since the pandemic, the...
CVE-2026-35435: Critical Azure AI Foundry Privilege Escalation in M365 Agents Leaves Systems Vulnerable
Microsoft has disclosed a critical elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Azure AI Foundry, tracked as CVE-2026-35435, which affects Microsoft 365 published agents and currently has no patch....
Microsoft's Agentic AI Transforms Startup Software Lifecycle: From Coding to Production Execution
Microsoft is pushing AI beyond basic coding assistance into comprehensive software lifecycle management for startups. The company's latest tools enable AI agents to handle development, deployment,...
Microsoft's MAI-Image-2-Efficient Public Preview: 4x Efficiency Gains for Enterprise AI Image Generation
Microsoft has launched the public preview of MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a specialized image generation model delivering four times the efficiency of its predecessor while maintaining comparable quality....
Anthropic Hires Ex-Microsoft Azure AI Chief Eric Boyd to Scale Claude
Anthropic has recruited former Microsoft Azure AI executive Eric Boyd to lead its infrastructure efforts, signaling a strategic shift toward enterprise-scale deployment of its Claude AI models. Boyd...
HMCTS Azure Platform Transformation: Self-Service, AI Governance, and Accelerated Releases
HM Courts & Tribunals Service has transformed its approach to platform engineering, moving from treating infrastructure as plumbing to delivering it as a product. This shift represents one of the...