AzureMicrosoft has announced early access preview for Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs, delivering up to 50% better generational CPU performance than Cobalt 100 for cloud-native, Linux-based, and agentic AI workloads. The new VMs add higher storage and networking performance, scale to 128 vCPUs, and enable memory encryption by default, making them important for organizations optimizing AI inferencing, data pipelines, and modern web services.
3 min read · Jun 4, 2026
AzureMicrosoft has expanded Azure Foundry IQ with serverless retrieval in public preview, new multi-source knowledge connectors, and generally available knowledge bases for production agent workloads. The updates help developers build and scale grounded AI agents faster while improving security, retrieval quality, and access to both enterprise and web data.
3 min read · Jun 4, 2026
AzureMicrosoft has made Microsoft Discovery generally available as a production-ready platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows in scientific and engineering research. It also introduced the Microsoft Discovery app in preview, giving researchers and academic teams a simpler local entry point before moving to enterprise-scale deployments.
3 min read · Jun 4, 2026
AzureMicrosoft outlined its broader Azure-led strategy for enterprise AI, arguing that successful adoption depends on a governed, integrated system around agents rather than standalone models or chatbots. The company is positioning Azure, GitHub, Microsoft IQ, Foundry, Microsoft 365, and Security tools as a unified platform to build, run, govern, and continuously improve AI agents at scale.
3 min read · Jun 4, 2026
AzureMicrosoft Foundry is expanding its model ecosystem and operational tooling to help developers manage AI applications across selection, evaluation, optimization, and production operations. The update includes general availability of Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry, giving teams more model choice through a single Azure endpoint while improving cost control, governance, and lifecycle management.
3 min read · Jun 4, 2026
AzureAt Microsoft Build 2026, Microsoft introduced new data platform capabilities aimed at helping developers move AI and agent-based apps from prototype to production. Key announcements include Rayfin for building Fabric-backed app backends, Azure HorizonDB in public preview for AI-ready PostgreSQL workloads, and new security and migration tools for Azure Database for PostgreSQL.
3 min read · Jun 4, 2026
SecurityMicrosoft Threat Intelligence uncovered a large-scale npm supply chain attack involving trojanized packages under the @redhat-cloud-services scope. The campaign abused a compromised CI/CD publishing workflow to deliver credential-stealing malware targeting GitHub, npm, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and developer systems, making it especially relevant for security teams and DevOps administrators.
3 min read · Jun 3, 2026
Entra IDMicrosoft Entra Agent ID is now generally available, giving organizations a dedicated identity and access foundation for AI agents in production. Combined with the Microsoft Agent 365 CLI and SDK, it helps IT and security teams onboard, govern, audit, and secure agent instances across Microsoft and non-Microsoft frameworks.
3 min read · Jun 2, 2026
Microsoft 365Microsoft has introduced the new Work IQ APIs for Microsoft 365, expanding access to an intelligence layer designed to understand how work happens across an organization. For IT leaders and developers, this could open new opportunities to build insights, automation, and productivity-focused solutions on top of Microsoft 365 data.
2 min read · Jun 2, 2026
Microsoft 365Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Scout, an always-on personal agent built into Microsoft 365 apps. The announcement signals deeper AI assistance embedded directly in daily work, giving users contextual help without leaving their existing workflows.
2 min read · Jun 2, 2026
SecurityAt Microsoft Build 2026, Microsoft announced new security capabilities to protect code, AI agents, and models across the development lifecycle. Highlights include the expanded preview of MDASH for exploitability-focused vulnerability discovery and general availability of Microsoft Defender integration with GitHub Code Security to help teams prioritize and remediate real risks faster.
3 min read · Jun 2, 2026
Entra IDMicrosoft Entra’s June 2026 updates bring major identity improvements across passkeys, phishing-resistant MFA for Linux desktops, and Azure AD B2C migration to External ID. The release also adds cross-tenant group sync, app deactivation, redesigned My Account pages, and new governance features that help IT teams strengthen security and simplify administration.
3 min read · Jun 1, 2026