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Azure & NVIDIA Smash LLM Training Record: Cloud Infrastructure Outperforms Dedicated AI Clusters
Microsoft Azure, in collaboration with NVIDIA, has set a new performance record for large language model (LLM) training in the latest MLPerf Training 4.0 benchmarks, the companies announced on June...
Microsoft's Copilot Cowork Goes Metered: Usage-Based Pricing Arrives in 2026, DeepSeek V4 on the Table
Microsoft will shift its enterprise-grade AI assistant, Copilot Cowork, to a usage-based billing model when the agent becomes broadly available for Microsoft 365 in 2026. The move, confirmed by...
Copilot Cowork GA Brings Per-Agent Metered Billing and Central IT Controls to Microsoft 365
Microsoft officially launched Copilot Cowork to general availability on June 16, 2026, marking a pivotal shift in how enterprises consume and govern AI agents within Microsoft 365. The move...
Legal & General Inks 3-Year Deal to Roll Out Microsoft 365 Copilot to 10,000 Employees, Deepen Azure AI
Legal & General, the UK-based financial services and asset management giant, has struck a new three-year strategic agreement with Microsoft to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot across its entire...
Microsoft Taps AWS, IBM Veteran Gunawan Susanto to Lead Indonesia Cloud and AI Push
Microsoft has named Gunawan Susanto as its new Country General Manager for Indonesia, effective June 15, 2026, handing the reins of one of Southeast Asia’s most dynamic tech markets to a leader...
CIO's Azure AI Playbook: Selective Commitments and Portable GPU Workloads
CIOs navigating the treacherous waters of enterprise AI are receiving a clear message from industry analysts: trust Azure for Microsoft-adjacent workloads and governed pilots, but think twice before...
How to Swap PyMuPDF for Azure Document Intelligence Layout in Enterprise RAG Systems on Windows
Enterprise developers building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems now have a more robust alternative to PyMuPDF for document parsing—Microsoft’s Azure AI Document Intelligence Layout...
Microsoft Copilot Gains Enterprise Edge with NHS Deal, Usage Pricing, and AI Revenue Surge
Microsoft Copilot is not losing ground to rivals. That’s the key finding from a BNP Paribas analysis released this month, which argues that the AI assistant has sharpened its enterprise...
Microsoft and Global Objects Partner to Build Azure-Hosted Generative World Model for Physical AI
Global Objects and Microsoft announced on June 3, 2026, a multi-year strategic collaboration to develop an Azure-hosted, retrieval-grounded generative world model trained on licensed datasets. The...
Microsoft Stock Drops 3.5% on Anthropic IPO, Copilot Profit Doubts
Microsoft shares slid 3.5% on Tuesday, June 2, 2026, erasing most of the gains from the previous week, as a confluence of AI-related developments rattled investors. The drop came after reports...
Analyst: Azure and Copilot Give Microsoft an 8.5% AI Edge Over Magnificent Seven Peers
A Seeking Alpha contributor has singled out Microsoft as the strongest opportunity among the so-called Magnificent Seven tech stocks, pointing to an 8.5 percent share price gain since late April. The...
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...