https://azurecharts.com/ Latest Azure updates provided by Azure Charts via Azure Terminal aka.ms/aztty RSS feed Fri, 10 Jul 2026 01:47:26 Z https://aztty.azurewebsites.net/rss/updates?service=147 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=567431 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=567431 GA Open AI GPT-5.6 is now available on Azure Databricks. You can use GPT 5.6 (purchased on Microsoft Foundry) via Model Serving Endpoint in Azure Databricks. Through integrations across Foundry and Azure Databricks, you can securely build, deploy, and manage<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Databricks, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:21:12 Z 2026-07-09T20:21:12Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/microsoft-foundry-model-deployment-pricing-update/4535385 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/microsoft-foundry-model-deployment-pricing-update/4535385 Announcement Today, Microsoft Foundry is announcing updated pricing for model deployments in the EU Data Zone and in Regional deployments outside the US, effective September 1, 2026, alongside a new APAC Data Zon...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:22:00 Z 2026-07-09T17:22:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/frontier-tuning---a-shift-from-classic-fine-tuning/4526001 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/frontier-tuning---a-shift-from-classic-fine-tuning/4526001 Announcement Your AI agents are burning through tokens and budget because they're relearning your business context on every single task. Frontier Tuning changes that equation. Instead of injecting thousands of co...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:00:00 Z 2026-07-09T16:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/monitoring--observability-in-microsoft-foundry-part-2-configuration-and-operatio/4532674 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/monitoring--observability-in-microsoft-foundry-part-2-configuration-and-operatio/4532674 Announcement Part 1 of this series made the case that AI observability is not just another dashboard problem. Once an agent is in production, the question is no longer can it respond; the question is whether it c...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:00:00 Z 2026-07-09T14:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/frontier-models-and-production-agents-advancing-microsoft-foundry-for-the-agentic-era/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/frontier-models-and-production-agents-advancing-microsoft-foundry-for-the-agentic-era/ Announcement Introducing OpenAI’s latest frontier model series, the Asia Pacific Data Zone, and product agent capabilities, all generally available in Microsoft Foundry.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:00:00 Z 2026-07-09T10:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-is-now-in-copilot-studio-bring-your-enterprise-data-to-every-agent-co/4534635 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-is-now-in-copilot-studio-bring-your-enterprise-data-to-every-agent-co/4534635 Announcement Your AI agents are only as smart as the data they can access Enterprise teams building Copilot agents face a familiar challenge: connecting agents to organizational knowledge without compromising s...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:24:00 Z 2026-07-08T21:24:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/before-you-ship-your-agent-a-five-step-path-to-evaluations-you-can-trust/4532311 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/before-you-ship-your-agent-a-five-step-path-to-evaluations-you-can-trust/4532311 Announcement Authors: Caroline Yeh, Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Morteza Ziyadi  If you've shipped an agent to production, or you're close, you've already made a quiet bet: that the evals you ran during development reflec...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:41:00 Z 2026-07-08T18:41:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-roi-for-agents-in-foundry/4531970 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-roi-for-agents-in-foundry/4531970 Announcement Authors: Han Che, Luffy Chen Across Foundry Agent Service and the broader ecosystem of agent frameworks and runtimes, it is becoming easier to build, deploy, evaluate, and optimize production agent...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:00:00 Z 2026-07-08T15:00:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-june-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-june-2026/ Announcement Claude is now generally available in Microsoft Foundry. Here's everything else that shipped between Build 2026 and the end of June — autopilot agents, expanded Toolboxes and Routines, Agent Optimizer's private preview, and more. The post What’s New in Microsoft Foundry | June 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 07 Jul 2026 07:10:25 Z 2026-07-07T07:10:25Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-kimi-k2-7-code-in-microsoft-foundry/4532286 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-kimi-k2-7-code-in-microsoft-foundry/4532286 Announcement Modern software engineering rarely happens in a single step, developers must refactor across large codebases, implement features spanning multiple files, and debug issues over long-running sessions. ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:48:00 Z 2026-07-06T22:48:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-control-plane-and-agent-365-two-control-planes-walk-into-an-enterprise/4520185 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-control-plane-and-agent-365-two-control-planes-walk-into-an-enterprise/4520185 Announcement May 15, 2026  |  8 min read  If you’ve been paying attention to Microsoft over the past six months, you’ve noticed a recurring theme: agents are everywhere. They’re reasoning over your SharePoint f...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:00:00 Z 2026-07-02T14:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563331 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563331 Preview Document-based PII detection in Azure AI Language now ships an initial playground experience in the Microsoft Foundry NextGen portal. The playground loads a prepared sample document, runs it through the document-based PII feature, and shows the redacted o<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:04:40 Z 2026-07-01T17:04:40Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564382 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564382 GA Azure AI Language now offers a refreshed Document PII playground in general availability, giving customers a faster way to evaluate personally identifiable information detection on documents. The playground ships with curated sample inputs and outputs, so<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:01:07 Z 2026-07-01T17:01:07Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/agent-to-agent-communication-connecting-foundry-and-langgraph-agents-via-a2a/4531378 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/agent-to-agent-communication-connecting-foundry-and-langgraph-agents-via-a2a/4531378 Announcement As AI systems move from single agents to multi-agent workflows, one challenge becomes obvious: how do agents built in different frameworks discover each other, communicate, and collaborate reliably? ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:00:00 Z 2026-07-01T13:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563481 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563481 GA Microsoft Foundry brings Toolboxes to GA, providing a unified endpoint to invoke the most-used tools in prompt agents and callable outside of prompt agents. Today every agent team hand-assembles its own tool list to solve the same tasks, with no shared ar<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:00:51 Z 2026-06-30T19:00:51Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/claude-sonnet-5-is-now-generally-available-in-microsoft-foundry/4530737 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/claude-sonnet-5-is-now-generally-available-in-microsoft-foundry/4530737 GA On June 29, 2026, we announced the general availability of Claude in Microsoft Foundry, giving enterprises a production-ready path to build with Claude models in the Azure ecosystem. Today, we’re con...<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:19:00 Z 2026-06-30T18:19:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/practice-the-hard-call-real-time-voice-training-with-live-voice-practice/4530732 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/practice-the-hard-call-real-time-voice-training-with-live-voice-practice/4530732 Announcement Practice the Hard Call: Real-Time Voice Training with Live Voice Practice Customer service runs on conversations that are hard to have and harder to practice. A frustrated customer with a billing c...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:47:00 Z 2026-06-29T20:47:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/claude-in-microsoft-foundry-is-now-generally-available/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/claude-in-microsoft-foundry-is-now-generally-available/ Announcement Claude in Microsoft Foundry is now generally available, hosted on Azure, and running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra, giving teams a faster path from agent experimentation to production.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 10:00:00 Z 2026-06-29T10:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/evaluating-multi-turn-agents-a-quality-study-of-microsoft-foundry%E2%80%99s-multi-turn-e/4524106 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/evaluating-multi-turn-agents-a-quality-study-of-microsoft-foundry%E2%80%99s-multi-turn-e/4524106 Announcement Authors: Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Salma Elshafey, Shuo Qiu, José Santos, Ilya Matiach, Vivek Bhadauria, Morteza Ziyadi, April Kwong LLM-as-judge evaluations are a critical part of any agent lifecycle. Sin...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:00:00 Z 2026-06-26T14:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/practice-the-hard-call-real-time-voice-training-with-live-voice-practice/4530723 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/practice-the-hard-call-real-time-voice-training-with-live-voice-practice/4530723 Announcement Customer service runs on conversations that are hard to have and harder to practice. A frustrated customer with a billing charge that was never fixed. A cancellation that turns into a retention call....<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:16:00 Z 2026-06-26T01:16:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-cohere-command-a-in-foundry/4530376 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-cohere-command-a-in-foundry/4530376 Announcement Your enterprise agents need to reason across 48 languages, process documents with images and tables, and orchestrate multi-step workflows all without switching models. Command A+, Cohere's 218B-param...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:57:00 Z 2026-06-24T17:57:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/an-operational-toolchain-for-microsoft-foundry-private-networks/4529558 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/an-operational-toolchain-for-microsoft-foundry-private-networks/4529558 Announcement Enterprise teams deploying Microsoft Foundry into private networks can lose hours to failures caused not by the template itself but by surrounding operational state. Each failed deployment can cost t...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:00:00 Z 2026-06-24T13:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/mistral-document-ai-with-ocr-4-and-mistral-medium-3-5-arrive-in-microsoft-foundr/4529863 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/mistral-document-ai-with-ocr-4-and-mistral-medium-3-5-arrive-in-microsoft-foundr/4529863 Announcement In production AI systems, different problems require different model capabilities. Document ingestion, reasoning, coding, and automation workflows rarely rely on a single model. They depend on select...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:01:00 Z 2026-06-23T22:01:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/defending-your-memory-in-microsoft-foundry-agent-service-against-memory-poisonin/4529638 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/defending-your-memory-in-microsoft-foundry-agent-service-against-memory-poisonin/4529638 Announcement One of the things that makes agents genuinely useful is that they can remember. Instead of treating every interaction as completely new, an agent can carry context across sessions, recall preferences...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:00:00 Z 2026-06-23T13:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/cross-region-model-connectivity-options-in-microsoft-foundry-supported-patterns-/4528620 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/cross-region-model-connectivity-options-in-microsoft-foundry-supported-patterns-/4528620 Announcement Model availability in Microsoft Foundry is region-dependent. The region approved for your project may not be the one where the model or Foundry Agent Service support you need is available. That creat...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:00:00 Z 2026-06-19T15:00:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/outcome-driven-learning-systems-enterprise-rl-with-openenv-and-foundry/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/outcome-driven-learning-systems-enterprise-rl-with-openenv-and-foundry/ Announcement We shipped a lot at Build 2026: hosted agents, Toolboxes, Foundry IQ, Memory, Managed Compute, fine‑tuning, Frontier Tuning, and a new evaluation and optimization stack. Read as a feature list, it is a lot to hold in your head. So here is a simpler way to see it: these are the parts you need to […] The post Outcome-driven learning systems: Enterprise RL with OpenEnv and Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:37:18 Z 2026-06-18T20:37:18Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/auto-generated-rubric-evaluators-building-context-aware-evaluators-for-ai-agents/4524095 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/auto-generated-rubric-evaluators-building-context-aware-evaluators-for-ai-agents/4524095 Announcement Authors: Shuo Qiu, Sydney Lister, Ilya Matiach, Ali Mahmoudzadeh, Salma Elshafey, José Santos, Vivek Bhadauria, Morteza Ziyadi, April Kwong Why Your Agent Needs a Task-Specific Evaluator Picture ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:00:00 Z 2026-06-18T19:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/how-to-score-a-user-simulator-introducing-usr-8/4523642 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/how-to-score-a-user-simulator-introducing-usr-8/4523642 Announcement Authors: José Santos, Shuo Qiu, Morteza Ziyadi User simulators have become a standard part of the agent-building toolkit: cheaper than real-user pilots, faster than scripted dialogues, and the only...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:00:00 Z 2026-06-17T14:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/build-an-automated-sla-risk-agent-with-routines-in-microsoft-foundry/4528103 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/build-an-automated-sla-risk-agent-with-routines-in-microsoft-foundry/4528103 Announcement Routines in Microsoft Foundry turn agents into scheduled, repeatable processes. This blog shows how to build a grounded SLA risk agent using Foundry IQ, and run it daily to automatically identify and...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 Z 2026-06-17T12:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/a-guided-tour-of-the-new-microsoft-foundry-labs/4527908 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/a-guided-tour-of-the-new-microsoft-foundry-labs/4527908 Announcement There's a moment every developer chases — the first time you take something genuinely at the edge of what's possible and watch it run on your screen, against your problem. Microsoft Foundry Labs exis...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:41:00 Z 2026-06-15T23:41:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/intelligent-sampling-in-microsoft-foundry-the-science-behind-selecting-better-pr/4523722 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/intelligent-sampling-in-microsoft-foundry-the-science-behind-selecting-better-pr/4523722 Announcement Learn how to use data generation in Microsoft Foundry to turn production agent traces into evaluation and fine-tuning datasets.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:00:00 Z 2026-06-15T16:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/benchmarks-in-microsoft-foundry-preview-standardized-model-and-agent-quality-che/4523711 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/benchmarks-in-microsoft-foundry-preview-standardized-model-and-agent-quality-che/4523711 Announcement Introduction Benchmarks in Microsoft Foundry (preview) make that kind of measurement a first-class part of the development workflow. You can run well-known open-source benchmarks against any model ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:00:00 Z 2026-06-15T13:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurestorageblog/bringing-enterprise-file-data-to-users-with-azure-netapp-files-microsoft-foundry/4528002 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurestorageblog/bringing-enterprise-file-data-to-users-with-azure-netapp-files-microsoft-foundry/4528002 Announcement This is Part 3 of a 3-part series on extending AI to enterprise file data, showing how the knowledge pipeline is surfaced through enterprise AI agents and user experiences including Microsoft 365 Cop...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Storage, Azure NetApp Files, Categories: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:37:00 Z 2026-06-15T07:37:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/how-to-measure-token-impact-of-mcp-tool-invocation-in-microsoft-foundry/4527338 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/how-to-measure-token-impact-of-mcp-tool-invocation-in-microsoft-foundry/4527338 Announcement Your MCP-enabled agent just ran, and the token counts don't add up. The API says 773 tokens. The portal trace shows 581/141. The trajectory view displays something else entirely. Before you file a bu...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:00:00 Z 2026-06-12T13:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/now-in-foundry-command-a-w4a4-chandra-ocr-2-and-glm-ocr/4526875 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/now-in-foundry-command-a-w4a4-chandra-ocr-2-and-glm-ocr/4526875 Announcement We are seeing two distinct trends this week. The first is around how low-bit quantization has developed to the point where large reasoning models can fit on a single accelerator with less quality los...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:59:00 Z 2026-06-10T22:59:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/transitioning-from-azure-language-features-to-foundry-models/4524092 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/transitioning-from-azure-language-features-to-foundry-models/4524092 Announcement Azure AI Language in Foundry Tools will begin deprecating eight features: Key Phrase Extraction, Entity Linking, Sentiment Analysis & Opinion Mining, Summarization (document & conversation), Conver...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:43:00 Z 2026-06-10T16:43:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/online-meeting-effectiveness-index-omei/4526638 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/online-meeting-effectiveness-index-omei/4526638 Announcement Samidha Shikhare*, Tim Malueg*, Shreya Goel*, and Charlie Goldenberg*  Department of Business Analytics, Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business,  Santa Clara, California 95053, Un...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:26:00 Z 2026-06-09T17:26:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/claude-fable-5-is-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry-powering-the-next-era-of-autonomous-agents/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/claude-fable-5-is-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry-powering-the-next-era-of-autonomous-agents/ Announcement Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s latest Frontier model, available today in Microsoft Foundry, powering agents in GitHub Copilot and Foundry Agent Service.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0200 2026-06-09T10:00:00+02:00 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=565171 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=565171 Preview Starting July 1, 2026, Microsoft Foundry agent security capabilities previously available through Microsoft Defender for Cloud will transition to a Microsoft Agent 365 license. Agent protection in Defender will be powered by Agent 365 observability logs a<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Defender for Cloud, Categories: Features, Security, Pricing & Offerings Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:15:43 Z 2026-06-08T17:15:43Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/driving-stop-and-go-business-processes-to-closure-with-foundry-hosted-agents/4524135 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/driving-stop-and-go-business-processes-to-closure-with-foundry-hosted-agents/4524135 Announcement Why This Matters Your AI agent just forgot everything. Again. If you've built agents that need to track work across days or weeks—not just single conversations—you've hit this wall: the agent loo...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:30:00 Z 2026-06-08T16:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/a-multi-region-microsoft-foundry-pattern-for-enterprise-private-networking/4525696 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/a-multi-region-microsoft-foundry-pattern-for-enterprise-private-networking/4525696 Announcement Enterprise AI projects do not move to production on model quality alone. They move when architecture, networking, observability, and evaluation all work together in a way that fits existing enterpris...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:30:00 Z 2026-06-05T17:30:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564176 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564176 Preview In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now supports avatar voice sync with custom voices in the Voice Live API, allowing developers to pair branded or persona-specific text-to-speech voices with real-time avatar experiences. This update helps teams building<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:15:50 Z 2026-06-04T22:15:50Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563506 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563506 Preview Microsoft Foundry adds tool search to Foundry toolboxes in public preview, giving developers and admins a fast way to find the right tool inside large, multi-team catalogs. As your toolbox grows, sending every tool definition on every turn gets expensive.<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z 2026-06-04T19:30:58Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563451 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563451 Preview Microsoft Foundry brings Azure API Management support to all Foundry model integrations in Azure AI Search, now in public preview. Enterprise platform engineers and AI solution teams running large-scale RAG pipelines can place Foundry and Azure OpenAI mod<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: API Management, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z 2026-06-04T19:30:58Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563446 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563446 Preview Microsoft Foundry adds Azure SQL Database as a first-class Knowledge Source in Azure AI Search, available in public preview. Enterprise developers and solution architects building Copilot, RAG, and agentic experiences can now expose authoritative tables a<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, SQL Database, Categories: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:30:58 Z 2026-06-04T19:30:58Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563516 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563516 GA Azure AI Search and Foundry Knowledge Bases now support private, end-to-end network connectivity between search resources and Foundry services. Customers can route ingestion, enrichment, retrieval, and agent traffic over Shared Private Link or Network Sec<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Private Link, Categories: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:15:11 Z 2026-06-04T19:15:11Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563416 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563416 Preview Microsoft Foundry IQ now treats a Microsoft Fabric Ontology as a federated knowledge source in public preview, giving agents a way to query the semantic layer customers already curate in Fabric. Foundry IQ translates natural language questions into ontolo<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:15:11 Z 2026-06-04T19:15:11Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563222 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563222 GA Microsoft Foundry IQ reaches general availability, giving developers a managed knowledge layer that grounds agents in enterprise data without rebuilding retrieval pipelines for each project. Teams connect SharePoint, OneLake, Azure Blob, and other sources<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Storage, Categories: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:15:11 Z 2026-06-04T19:15:11Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563661 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563661 Preview Azure AI Search now supports Content Understanding chunking and image verbalization in public preview, expanding the built-in skill that parses rich documents during indexing. Indexers can split documents into semantically meaningful chunks and generate t<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:00:34 Z 2026-06-04T19:00:34Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/giving-developers-claude-code-with-azure-api-management-and-claude-models-in-mic/4525212 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/giving-developers-claude-code-with-azure-api-management-and-claude-models-in-mic/4525212 Announcement Summary You want to give your engineering org Claude Code without handing out Anthropic API keys, without per-developer billing sprawl, and without losing visibility into who is spending what. This...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Management Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:41:00 Z 2026-06-04T17:41:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/connecting-claude-clients-with-azure-api-management-and-claude-models-in-microso/4525212 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/connecting-claude-clients-with-azure-api-management-and-claude-models-in-microso/4525212 Announcement Summary You want to give your engineering org Claude Code without handing out Anthropic API keys, without per-developer billing sprawl, and without losing visibility into who is spending what. This...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: API Management, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Management Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:41:00 Z 2026-06-04T17:41:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/accelerate-edge-ai-development-with-foundry-local/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/accelerate-edge-ai-development-with-foundry-local/ Announcement Why edge AI development is still hard  AI is no longer confined to cloud experiments. Developers are increasingly expected to deliver AI inside apps, devices, and edge systems where responsiveness, privacy, resilience, and local control are essential. But building those experiences for production is still difficult.  Teams often have to solve model packaging, runtime fragmentation, hardware differences, […] The post Accelerate Edge AI Development with Foundry Local appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:00:24 Z 2026-06-04T13:00:24Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563217 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563217 Preview Microsoft Foundry now offers MAI-Voice-2 in public preview, a first-party voice model from the Microsoft AI team. MAI-Voice-2 generates natural speech across more than 10 languages and supports voice cloning from a short reference sample, plus voice promp<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:00:57 Z 2026-06-03T23:00:57Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-2026-from-observability-to-roi-for-ai-agents-on-any-framework/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-2026-from-observability-to-roi-for-ai-agents-on-any-framework/ Announcement 9 min read · June 3, 2026 · Sebastian Kohlmeier    Shipping an AI agent is the easy part. Keeping it accurate, safe, and accountable in production is where teams get stuck. Agents are non-deterministic. Their behavior shifts as models update, tools change, and traffic patterns evolve and most of that drift happens silently, long after the demo. End-to-end observability covering […] The post Build 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework  appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:44:01 Z 2026-06-03T22:44:01Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563671 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563671 GA Azure AI Language brings the next-generation Text Analytics for Health (TA4H) playground to general availability in the Microsoft Foundry portal. Clinical informatics teams and ISVs can paste discharge summaries, doctor's notes, or research abstracts and<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Health Data Services, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:15:57 Z 2026-06-03T21:15:57Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563431 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563431 Preview This feature introduces end user feedback logging semantics that enables developers to capture structured feedback signals from real users interacting with AI agents—such as thumbs up/down, ratings, or custom annotations—and automatically associates that<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Monitor, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:15:57 Z 2026-06-03T21:15:57Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563491 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563491 GA Microsoft Foundry brings self-serve custom photo avatar creation to GA in the Foundry NextGen fine-tuning portal. Enterprise customers building voice agents with avatars or producing content with avatar and speech often need a branded avatar instead of a<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:45:02 Z 2026-06-03T20:45:02Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563716 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563716 Preview Microsoft Foundry Agent Service adds agent-to-agent (A2A) communication in public preview for Prompt agents and Hosted agents that use the responses protocol. Agents can call other agents by name through a managed endpoint, with identity, content safety,<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Monitor, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:15:46 Z 2026-06-03T19:15:46Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564246 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564246 Preview In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now offers a Conversational PII (ConvPII) NextGen Playground with transcript input and an API Configuration Panel, enabling developers to validate PII detection across multi-speaker dialogue before integrating the API.<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z 2026-06-03T19:00:25Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564241 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564241 Preview In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now offers an updated TextPII NextGen Playground with a refreshed API Configuration Panel, including preview features introduced at Ignite 2025. This update lets developers test predefined PII categories, redaction mod<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z 2026-06-03T19:00:25Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563736 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563736 Preview Use the Azure Developer CLI (azd) CLI evaluation experience to add a measured quality loop to an agent created with Microsoft Foundry. It empowers users on the hosted-agent lifecycle in azd, where you create, provision, deploy, initialize evaluation asset<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z 2026-06-03T19:00:25Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563731 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563731 Preview Microsoft Foundry model catalog adds a domain filter in public preview, helping developers narrow the catalog of over 1,900 models to the ones trained for a specific industry or use case. Filters cover domains such as robotics, biomedical sciences, materi<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z 2026-06-03T19:00:25Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563721 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563721 GA The Microsoft Foundry extension for Visual Studio Code reaches general availability with a Build 2026 refresh that brings the full model catalog, model playground, and Hosted agent deployment into the editor. Developers can sign in with their Azure accoun<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z 2026-06-03T19:00:25Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563696 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563696 Preview Microsoft Foundry observability introduces intelligent trace filtering and sampling for evaluations in public preview. Instead of running evaluations against all production traces, Foundry now select a representative subset of traces using a multi-stage M<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z 2026-06-03T19:00:25Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563691 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563691 GA Azure AI Speech moves the Custom Voice authoring experience into the Microsoft Foundry portal in general availability. Approved Custom Voice customers can now upload voice talent recordings and consent statements, run data quality checks, train neural voi<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z 2026-06-03T19:00:25Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563656 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563656 Preview Microsoft Foundry introduces rubric evaluators for measuring agent quality, now in public preview for single-turn and multi-turn agent flows. Rubric evaluators enable developers to define context-specific evaluation criteria using agent prompts, productio<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:00:25 Z 2026-06-03T19:00:25Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-the-new-browser-automation-tool-with-toolboxes-in-foundry/4522790 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-the-new-browser-automation-tool-with-toolboxes-in-foundry/4522790 Announcement AI agents can reason through complex problems—but they hit a wall when workflows require clicking buttons, filling forms, or navigating web interfaces. The Browser Automation Tool bridges that gap, g...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:04:00 Z 2026-06-03T17:04:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/document-translation-build-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/document-translation-build-2026/ Announcement Learn how new Document Translation capabilities in Azure Translator, available in Foundry Tools, help developers translate images, PDFs, Office files, DITA, XLIFF, and future LLM-powered document workflows. The post Expanding the Reach of Document Translation – New Capabilities Announced at Microsoft Build appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:00:00 Z 2026-06-03T17:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/azure-speech-at-build-2026-powering-voice-agents-with-real-time-and-life-like-ex/4524638 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/azure-speech-at-build-2026-powering-voice-agents-with-real-time-and-life-like-ex/4524638 Announcement Voice is rapidly becoming the default interface for AI. At Build 2026, Azure Speech in Foundry Tools is making it dramatically easier to ship production-grade voice experiences that feel real, respon...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:46:00 Z 2026-06-03T16:46:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/announcing-foundry-managed-compute/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/announcing-foundry-managed-compute/ Announcement Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute is a new GPU platform-as-a-service for hosting open-source and custom AI models behind the same endpoint, SDKs, and bill as frontier models. The post Announcing Foundry Managed Compute: Run open models in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Services Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:54 Z 2026-06-03T16:00:54Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/agent-optimizer-build2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/agent-optimizer-build2026/ Announcement With hosted agents, we made it straightforward to build and deploy agents on Foundry. You write your logic, run azd deploy, and your agent is live. But “live” and “production-ready” aren’t the same thing. The gap shows up quickly. Your customer support agent handles requests, but it forgets to ask for an order number before looking […] The post Introducing Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Services Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:43 Z 2026-06-03T16:00:43Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/memory-build2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/memory-build2026/ Announcement Memory has always mattered for personalization and continuity. But as customers move agents from demos into production, another requirement becomes just as important: reliability.   Enterprise teams need agents that not only remember facts, but also apply what they have learned to follow procedures consistently, recover from repeated failure modes, and complete tasks with greater confidence over time. Memory […] The post Making agent memory more reliable, transparent, and production-ready appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:30 Z 2026-06-03T16:00:30Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/toolbox-build-26/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/toolbox-build-26/ Announcement Tooling doesn’t break at a small scale—it breaks when teams move to production. AI adoption accelerates, so does the number of tools available to them. Discovering, managing and securing the right tools has quickly become one of the biggest challenges in building production-grade agents. Today, we are announcing new capabilities in Toolboxes in Foundry: Skills […] The post Discovery to Execution: Scaling Agents with Toolboxes and Routines in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:15 Z 2026-06-03T16:00:15Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/agent-distribution-build2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/agent-distribution-build2026/ Announcement The past year was about building agents. The next year is about putting them to work.  Organizations have moved quickly from experimenting with AI agents to building ones that perform complex business processes and execute long-running tasks. But the bottleneck has shifted. The challenge is no longer building agents — it’s getting them into the hands of […] The post From Building Agents to Working with Them: Enterprise Agent Distribution in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:04 Z 2026-06-03T16:00:04Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-labs--build-2026/4524581 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-labs--build-2026/4524581 Announcement We launched Foundry Labs last year as the home for cutting-edge AI experiments from across Microsoft. It is meant to be a place where developers could try, fork, and build with our earliest prototype...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:30:00 Z 2026-06-03T15:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/evaluate-before-you-ship-introducing-the-voice-live-evaluation-harness/4523064 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/evaluate-before-you-ship-introducing-the-voice-live-evaluation-harness/4523064 Announcement You've built a voice agent on Azure Voice Live. It demos beautifully. Then a teammate asks the question that keeps every voice-agent team up at night: "How do we know it's actually good — across 200 ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:00:00 Z 2026-06-03T15:00:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-azure-content-understanding-at-build-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-azure-content-understanding-at-build-2026/ Announcement Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools is Microsoft’s comprehensive content AI service. It ingests diverse data types — documents, audio, images, and video — and extracts the most critical information to power well-grounded, reliable generative AI and agentic solutions. Azure Content Understanding brings together Azure Document Intelligence’s proven traditional AI with advanced LLM-based content reasoning, […] The post Build smarter document workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding at Build 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Services Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:40:21 Z 2026-06-03T00:40:21Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563197 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563197 Preview Microsoft Foundry brings code-first observability to agent developers in public preview, delivered as an observe skill inside the Foundry Plugin for VS Code Copilot Chat. Developers run the full evaluation-driven optimization loop from the editor through<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:15:29 Z 2026-06-02T23:15:29Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563631 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563631 GA Azure AI Translator's unified Text Translation API reaches general availability, giving developers a single endpoint that fronts neural machine translation, large language model translation, small language model translation, Adaptive custom translation, a<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:00:30 Z 2026-06-02T21:00:30Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=562657 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=562657 Announcement Global Provisioned Throughput (PTU) reservations are now region-agnostic, enabling a single reservation to cover Global PTU deployments across multiple regions. Why it matters:Optimize savings: One reservation can apply across regions, improving utilizati<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Pricing & Offerings Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:45:52 Z 2026-06-02T20:45:52Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563636 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563636 Preview Azure Policy now provides centralized governance for deployments using the model router. Organizations can define and enforce routing standards across their environment, helping ensure that model selection aligns with security, compliance, and operational<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Policy, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:00:59 Z 2026-06-02T20:00:59Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563601 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563601 GA Microsoft Foundry Agent Service is now generally available for Voice Live integration, allowing developers to connect real-time speech-to-text and text-to-speech to a Foundry Agent without writing their own audio pipeline. Existing agent capabilities — in<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Services Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:00:59 Z 2026-06-02T20:00:59Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/integrationsonazureblog/better-together-build-agents-in-microsoft-foundry-automate-them-with-azure-logic/4524557 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/integrationsonazureblog/better-together-build-agents-in-microsoft-foundry-automate-them-with-azure-logic/4524557 Announcement One agentic stack: Foundry brings the intelligence; Logic Apps brings the automation and orchestration.   The promise of agentic AI is not simply more capable chat. It is autonomous work that...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Logic Apps, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:33:00 Z 2026-06-02T19:33:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564422 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564422 GA Azure AI Translator batch document translation ships generally available improvements for PDF translation. The service uses Azure AI Document Intelligence to recover structure from both digital-native and scanned PDFs, then translates the recognized text<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Storage, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564417 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564417 GA Azure AI Translator batch document translation accepts image files as a generally available input type. Supported formats include `.jpeg`, `.png`, `.bmp`, and `.webp`. The service runs OCR on each image, translates the recognized text into the target lang<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Storage, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564412 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564412 GA Azure AI Translator batch document translation now translates text inside images embedded in Word `.docx` files as a generally available capability. The service detects image regions, runs OCR, translates the recognized text, and re-renders it back into t<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Storage, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564407 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564407 GA Azure AI Search makes OneLake catalog integration generally available for knowledge sources, so customers can register a OneLake item once and reuse it across multiple knowledge sources and agents. The integration honors existing OneLake item-level permis<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564402 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564402 GA Microsoft Foundry makes managed virtual network support generally available for evaluations, so customers can run cloud evaluation jobs against models and agents that sit behind private endpoints. The Foundry-managed VNET handles outbound connectivity to<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Virtual Network, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564387 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=564387 GA Azure AI Speech makes the LLM Speech API generally available, delivering state-of-the-art LLM-powered transcription and translation for audio files, with multi-lingual support across 25 languages (90+ locales), improved accuracy, expanded regions, and enh<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563616 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563616 Preview Microsoft Foundry refreshes the Foundry Memory public preview with a redesigned storage model, new retrieval controls, and tighter integration with the Foundry Agent Service tool surface. Agents using Memory can now write, search, and update user-scoped a<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563606 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563606 Preview Azure AI Search adds Microsoft Purview admin access auditing for sensitivity-labeled content in public preview. Admin operations that touch Purview-labeled documents inside Azure AI Search, knowledge retrieval, and Foundry IQ knowledge bases now flow into<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Purview, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563596 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563596 Preview Microsoft Foundry Agent Service reaches preview for Hosted Agents, the container-based runtime that lets developers bring their own agent code in any framework and deploy it to Microsoft-managed infrastructure. Each Hosted Agent runs in a per-session VM-i<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Virtual Machines, Categories: Services Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563591 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563591 Preview Azure AI Search adds Microsoft Purview sensitivity label support to knowledge sources in public preview. Labels applied at the source system flow through ingestion into Azure AI Search and into the knowledge bases that ground Foundry agents and copilots,<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Purview, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563586 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563586 Preview Microsoft Foundry adds MAI-Transcribe-1.5 to the model catalog in public preview, Microsoft's next-generation speech-to-text model. The release adds improved accuracy with noticeably lower word error rate on long-tail locales than the previous generation,<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563581 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563581 Preview Microsoft Foundry adds MAI-Image-2.5 to the model catalog in public preview, the next generation of Microsoft's in-house image generation model. The release improves photorealism, prompt fidelity, and generation speed compared with MAI-Image-2, and is tun<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563531 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563531 Preview Azure AI Search now offers a serverless option for native indexers in public preview, removing the requirement to provision and manage indexer compute for ingestion workflows. Indexer execution scales with workload demand, so customers stop paying for idl<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563526 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563526 Preview Azure AI Speech is rolling out an updated Neural HD text-to-speech model, moving customers from DragonHDLatest to HDv2.5. The update raises audio quality scores, adds style and paralinguistic tag support for English voices, and reduces word error rate in<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563456 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563456 Preview Microsoft Foundry adds connectors and time-based triggers to the Foundry Tools toolbox in public preview, giving enterprise developers and automation engineers a native way to build event-driven AI agents. Foundry agents today are invoked only through dir<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563436 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563436 GA Azure AI Speech brings the Custom Avatar and Custom Video authoring experiences into the Microsoft Foundry portal in general availability. Approved customers can upload an actor's video recording, fine-tune a custom video avatar, and generate synthetic ta<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563426 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563426 Preview Microsoft Foundry observability adds Trace Replay and new trace visualizations in public preview, giving agent developers a faster way to debug multi-step runs. The replay view rewinds a captured trace step by step, showing the model, tool, and inter-agen<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Monitor, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563411 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563411 Preview Microsoft Foundry IQ now supports external MCP servers as federated knowledge sources in public preview, expanding retrieval beyond data customers index themselves. Teams can register MCP servers from systems like Salesforce, Atlassian, Confluence, and Se<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563396 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563396 Preview Azure AI Search and Foundry IQ Knowledge Sources add incremental SharePoint permissions sync in public preview, keeping document-level, site, and library access control lists current as SharePoint permissions change. Enterprises store business-critical co<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563361 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563361 Preview Microsoft Foundry brings Content Understanding into the portal in public preview, ending the context switch to the standalone Content Understanding Studio for everyday work. Developers get Read and Layout playgrounds inside Foundry for OCR text extraction<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563341 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563341 GA Azure AI Translator now supports synchronous single-document image translation at general availability. Customers can submit a standalone image file (JPEG, PNG, and similar formats) through one synchronous API call and receive the translated result immedi<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563326 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563326 GA Azure AI Translator publishes generally available SDKs that target the latest text translation REST API across four languages: C#/.NET, Java, JavaScript, and Python. The SDKs expose Translator API v4 SDK to GA across all four supported programming languag<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: SDK and Tools Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563307 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563307 GA Adaptive Custom Translation (AdaptCT) is generally available in the Azure AI Foundry NextGen playground for Azure Translator. AdaptCT enables enterprises to adapt translations to domain‑specific terminology using small datasets—eliminating the need for tr<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563282 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563282 GA Photo Avatar in Azure AI Speech is now generally available in standard and custom flavors. Standard Photo Avatar produces a talking head video from a single photo at 512x512 resolution, and custom Photo Avatar lets you fine-tune the look from your own ima<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563267 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563267 Preview Azure AI Search now emits audit events for Microsoft Purview sensitivity labels carried alongside indexed documents. When the SharePoint in Microsoft 365 indexer is configured to preserve and honor sensitivity labels, query-time filtering decisions and la<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Purview, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563262 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563262 Preview The Azure AI Search SharePoint in Microsoft 365 indexer now indexes ASPX site content and SharePoint Lists in addition to document libraries. The indexer connects through a Microsoft Entra application registration with application or delegated permissions<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Azure Purview, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563257 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563257 GA Content Understanding in Microsoft Foundry now supports an extractionMode setting that lets you choose how documents are analyzed. Pick a layout-aware mode for structured documents where tables, sections, and reading order matter, or a faster text-only mo<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563247 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563247 GA Azure AI Search makes the GenAI prompt skill generally available, letting indexers call chat completion models during enrichment without custom code. Authors point the skill at a Foundry-hosted model, write a prompt template that references field values,<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563242 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563242 GA Azure AI Search now supports managed identity authentication for the billing operations it issues against Microsoft Foundry resources, replacing the prior key-based flow. Customers assign a system-assigned or user-assigned identity to the search service,<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563237 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563237 Preview Foundry IQ knowledge bases now surface document-extracted images at query time in public preview. When ingestion pulls figures, screenshots, and diagrams out of PDFs, slides, and Office files, Foundry IQ retains each image alongside the text it appeared w<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563227 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563227 Preview Microsoft Foundry IQ adds public preview support for OneLake Catalog as a knowledge source, so agents can ground responses on lakehouse tables, files, and shortcuts already governed in Microsoft Fabric. Data engineers register the OneLake catalog once and<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Microsoft Fabric, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563212 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563212 GA Microsoft Foundry adds region-agnostic reservations for Global Provisioned Throughput Units (PTUs) at general availability, letting customers commit to PTU capacity once and consume it from any supported region. Previously, a reserved PTU commitment was t<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563192 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563192 GA Speech SDK 1.50 ships as a generally available release across all supported languages: C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, Objective-C, Swift, and Go. The release rolls up the latest speech-to-text and text-to-speech features behind a stable API surface an<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Storage, Categories: SDK and Tools Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563167 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=563167 Preview Choosing the right AI system is rarely as simple as picking the newest or largest model — and agents add their own layer of variability on top. A model that wins on a public leaderboard can still underperform on the reasoning, math, or domain-knowledge qu<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=562939 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=562939 Preview Organizations building AI agents often face a disconnect between where agents are built and where business processes are automated. Now, with improved integration between Azure AI Foundry and Azure Logic Apps, developers can now more easily operationalize<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Logic Apps, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:00:47 Z 2026-06-02T19:00:47Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/new-mai-models-in-microsoft-foundry-across-text-image-voice-and-speech/4524632 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/new-mai-models-in-microsoft-foundry-across-text-image-voice-and-speech/4524632 Announcement Continuing Microsoft AI momentum in Foundry Since launching MAI-Image-2-Efficient, MAI-Image-2, MAI-Voice-1, MAI-Transcribe-1 in Microsoft Foundry this spring, we've been laser-focused on one thing...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:10:00 Z 2026-06-02T18:10:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-2026-foundry-models/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-2026-foundry-models/ Announcement Learn a practical model lifecycle for Microsoft Foundry: select the right model, evaluate quality, optimize cost, operate safely, and improve as production needs change. The post A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:20:00 Z 2026-06-02T17:20:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-2026-foundry-models https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-2026-foundry-models Announcement A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry Microsoft Foundry helps teams move beyond model access to operate AI at scale—selecting, evaluating, optimizing, and governing models across the full lifecycle.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:20:00 Z 2026-06-02T17:20:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/improved-data-processing-features-in-foundry-iq-richer-content-extraction-and-da/4524841 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/improved-data-processing-features-in-foundry-iq-richer-content-extraction-and-da/4524841 Announcement Foundry IQ (Azure AI Search) introduces new capabilities in preview focused on improving enterprise data pipelines for RAG and agentic retrieval scenarios. The release expands SharePoint indexing sup...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:15:00 Z 2026-06-02T17:15:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-improve-recall-by-up-to-54-with-knowledge-bases/4524852 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-improve-recall-by-up-to-54-with-knowledge-bases/4524852 Announcement Foundry IQ: Improve recall by up to 54% with knowledge bases. Foundry IQ (Azure AI Search) has improved its agentic retrieval engine resulting in better answer quality and improved token cost savin...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:15:00 Z 2026-06-02T17:15:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-new-governance-and-enterprise-ai-security-capabilities/4524825 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-new-governance-and-enterprise-ai-security-capabilities/4524825 Announcement Enterprise AI isn’t just about better retrieval—it’s about secure access to business‑critical content. Discover how Foundry IQ (Azure AI Search) enables governance, compliance, and private connectivi...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:15:00 Z 2026-06-02T17:15:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/agent-service-build2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/agent-service-build2026/ Announcement Learn how Microsoft Foundry helps developers build, deploy, and operate production-ready agents with Agent Framework, Toolboxes, hosted agents, Microsoft 365 distribution, observability, and agent optimization. The post Build and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:10:22 Z 2026-06-02T17:10:22Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-2026-open-trust-stack-ai-agents/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-2026-open-trust-stack-ai-agents/ Announcement Learn how Microsoft helps developers build trustworthy AI agents with open evaluations, portable runtime controls, production observability, and security workflows that work across frameworks. The post Build agents you can trust across any framework with open evals and a control standard appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Security Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:10:00 Z 2026-06-02T17:10:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-smarter-agents-faster-with-foundry-iq/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-smarter-agents-faster-with-foundry-iq/ Announcement Learn how Foundry IQ helps developers ground agents with unified enterprise knowledge, serverless retrieval, improved agentic retrieval quality, and production-ready security. The post Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Security Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:10:00 Z 2026-06-02T17:10:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/azure-translator-improving-translation-quality-with-adaptive-datasets-and-few-shot-learning/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/azure-translator-improving-translation-quality-with-adaptive-datasets-and-few-shot-learning/ Announcement Your healthcare app needs “La médica” not “El médico.” Your legal documents need precise terminology, not generic translations. When domain-specific language matters, generic LLM translation falls short. Azure Translator’s adaptive translation lets you teach the model your terminology with just a handful of examples—no model training required. In this walkthrough, you’ll create an adaptive dataset, […] The post Azure Translator: Improving Translation Quality with Adaptive Datasets and Few‑Shot Learning appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:00:16 Z 2026-06-02T17:00:16Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/azure-translator-api-version-2026-06-06-ga-supporting-multilingual-applications-with-flexible-translation-options/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/azure-translator-api-version-2026-06-06-ga-supporting-multilingual-applications-with-flexible-translation-options/ Announcement Ship multilingual features in hours, not months Your translation workflow probably looks like this: one vendor for real-time chat, another for document translation, a custom LLM integration for nuanced content, and a spreadsheet tracking which system handles what. Azure Translator’s new API (version 2026-06-06, now GA) consolidates all of this—NMT speed, LLM fluency, and adaptive […] The post Azure Translator API Version 2026‑06‑06 (GA): Supporting Multilingual Applications with Flexible Translation Options appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:00:06 Z 2026-06-02T17:00:06Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-build-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-build-2026/ Announcement Microsoft Build 2026 brings a major set of Microsoft Foundry updates for developers building agents: hosted runtimes, Toolboxes, memory, Voice Live, Foundry IQ, new models, managed compute, and trust, evaluation, and observability tools. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | Build Edition appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:00:00 Z 2026-06-02T17:00:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/hosted-agents-build26/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/hosted-agents-build26/ Announcement A few weeks ago, we announced the public preview refresh of hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service — a fundamentally re-imagined agent runtime built for operationalizing production-grade AI agents in enterprise systems. Today at Microsoft Build, we are excited to share several updates that make hosted agents easier to deploy, more capable across modalities, and seamless […] The post What’s New in Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Services Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:09:10 Z 2026-06-02T16:09:10Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/online-meeting-effectiveness-index-omei/4524231 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/online-meeting-effectiveness-index-omei/4524231 Announcement   Authors Samidha Shikharea+, Tim Maluega+, Shreya Goela+, and Charlie Goldenberga+  *These authors contributed equally. Affiliation Department of Business Analytics, Santa Cla...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:53:00 Z 2026-06-01T16:53:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-may-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-may-2026/ Announcement May ships trace-based evaluation for any agent on any cloud, Grok 4.3 and DeepSeek V4 in the model catalog, GPT-5 Reinforcement Fine-Tuning at gated GA, three Microsoft Research on-device agent models, Managed VNET at GA, project-level cost attribution, Content Understanding improvements reaching GA, Foundry Local 1.1 and 1.2 with live audio and vision, and azure-ai-projects 2.2.0 with skills, toolboxes, external agents, and model weight registry — plus a guide to Microsoft Foundry sessions at Microsoft Build. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | May 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Virtual Network, Categories: Sun, 31 May 2026 06:18:28 Z 2026-05-31T06:18:28Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-azure-language-in-foundry-tools/4521343 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/what%E2%80%99s-new-in-azure-language-in-foundry-tools/4521343 Announcement Every day, your applications process thousands of emails, transcripts, and documents containing sensitive information—names, phone numbers, medical details. Manually identifying and protecting this d...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 29 May 2026 23:30:00 Z 2026-05-29T23:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/gpt-realtime-in-production-which-context-strategy-should-you-actually-use/4523091 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/gpt-realtime-in-production-which-context-strategy-should-you-actually-use/4523091 Announcement Are You Running Azure GPT Realtime in Production? The question that started this: Are you running Azure gpt-realtime in production? If so, you've already run into the question I want to talk abou...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 29 May 2026 22:30:00 Z 2026-05-29T22:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/choosing-the-right-language-analyzer-for-azure-ai-search/4523080 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/choosing-the-right-language-analyzer-for-azure-ai-search/4523080 Announcement By Abhishree Shetty, Alec Berntson, Lihang Li A language analyzer is a specific type of text analyzer that performs lexical analysis using the linguistic rules of the target language. It applies l...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Azure AI Search, Categories: Fri, 29 May 2026 21:15:00 Z 2026-05-29T21:15:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/migrating-to-gpt-5-x-without-breaking-gpt-4-a-practical-backward-compatible-play/4522936 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/migrating-to-gpt-5-x-without-breaking-gpt-4-a-practical-backward-compatible-play/4522936 Announcement The first request your service sends after swapping gpt-4o for gpt-5.1 in production will return HTTP 400. Not in two weeks. On the first call. And the parameter the error points to isn't one you s...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 29 May 2026 19:30:00 Z 2026-05-29T19:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/ai-observability-starter-kit-for-microsoft-foundry-agents/4522751 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/ai-observability-starter-kit-for-microsoft-foundry-agents/4522751 Announcement 1. From green dashboards to production-grade AI observability Your AI agent ran in production. The load balancer showed zero errors. Your Application Insights dashboard was green. But multiple thi...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure Monitor, Categories: Fri, 29 May 2026 16:45:00 Z 2026-05-29T16:45:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/load-testing-hosted-mcp-servers-with-locust-and-azure-load-testing/4522691 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/load-testing-hosted-mcp-servers-with-locust-and-azure-load-testing/4522691 Announcement Agent traffic doesn't look like human traffic. It arrives in bursts, sustains long sessions, and hits the same handful of tools at a parallelism a typical API client never produces. Hosted MCP server...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, App Testing, Categories: Fri, 29 May 2026 15:00:00 Z 2026-05-29T15:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/extending-the-vercel-ai-sdk-to-microsoft-foundry-typescript/4518313 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/extending-the-vercel-ai-sdk-to-microsoft-foundry-typescript/4518313 Announcement The Vercel AI SDK gives developers one elegant, provider‑agnostic surface (generateText, streamText, tools, structured output) for building agentic apps. The official AI​-sdk/azure provider, however,...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 29 May 2026 01:20:00 Z 2026-05-29T01:20:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/claude-opus-4-8-is-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry/4523367 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/claude-opus-4-8-is-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry/4523367 Announcement As AI applications become more complex, teams need models that can handle longer-running work, reason more deeply across complex analysis use tools more reliably across multi-step workflows, and supp...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 28 May 2026 18:09:00 Z 2026-05-28T18:09:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/deploying-existing-agentic-services-to-microsoft-365-copilot-via-gateway-and-obo/4504265 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/deploying-existing-agentic-services-to-microsoft-365-copilot-via-gateway-and-obo/4504265 Announcement Deploying an Agentic Service to Microsoft 365 Copilot with Delegated OBO Access You've built an agentic service. It works. It uses the framework you chose — maybe LangChain, maybe Semantic Kernel, ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Services Mon, 25 May 2026 15:15:00 Z 2026-05-25T15:15:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/striking-the-right-balance-ecn-and-pfc-thresholds-for-ai-clusters/4468629 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/striking-the-right-balance-ecn-and-pfc-thresholds-for-ai-clusters/4468629 Announcement Introduction In large-scale AI training clusters, congestion control is critical to maintaining high GPU utilization and low job completion times. Two key mechanisms in RoCEv2 (RDMA over Converged ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 22 May 2026 20:30:00 Z 2026-05-22T20:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/monitoring--observability-in-microsoft-foundry/4517250 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/monitoring--observability-in-microsoft-foundry/4517250 Announcement Production AI is a moving target. Once you deploy an AI-powered agent, its behavior can shift without a single line of code being changed. As Microsoft's Foundry team states: "The hard part isn't get...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 22 May 2026 17:30:00 Z 2026-05-22T17:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-as-a-shared-knowledge-brain-for-multiple-ai-agents/4507495 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-as-a-shared-knowledge-brain-for-multiple-ai-agents/4507495 Announcement When we build AI agents today, the hardest part is often not reasoning or generation — it’s giving agents access to the right knowledge. In many projects, each agent ends up with its own retrieval lo...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 22 May 2026 15:00:00 Z 2026-05-22T15:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/when-ai-should-ask-for-help-human-in-the-loop-patterns-in-microsoft-foundry/4514357 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/when-ai-should-ask-for-help-human-in-the-loop-patterns-in-microsoft-foundry/4514357 Announcement As AI agents become increasingly capable, modern applications are shifting from deterministic workflows to systems that can reason, adapt, and act. Platforms like Microsoft Foundry enable this transi...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 21 May 2026 21:30:00 Z 2026-05-21T21:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/teaching-ai-to-remember-exploring-memory-store-in-microsoft-foundry/4502381 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/teaching-ai-to-remember-exploring-memory-store-in-microsoft-foundry/4502381 Announcement Imagine interacting with an AI assistant that remembers your preferences - the tools you use, the projects you're working on, or even how you like your coffee. In many AI systems today, maintaining t...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 21 May 2026 19:38:00 Z 2026-05-21T19:38:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-labs-%E2%80%93-may-2026/4520310 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-labs-%E2%80%93-may-2026/4520310 Announcement Four new releases this month — a new benchmark for how agents interact, an experimental end-to-end agentic stack, a faster image model, and a first-party geospatial model. Last month we kicked off ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 21 May 2026 17:41:00 Z 2026-05-21T17:41:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/cohere-command-a-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry/4522003 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/cohere-command-a-now-available-in-microsoft-foundry/4522003 Announcement Command A+ is Cohere’s newest mixture-of-experts (MoE) model designed for enterprise-grade agentic AI workloads with exceptional efficiency and scalability. Released under an Apache 2.0 license, the ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 21 May 2026 17:28:00 Z 2026-05-21T17:28:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/securing-azure-ai-applications-against-prompt-injection--part---2/4517179 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/securing-azure-ai-applications-against-prompt-injection--part---2/4517179 Announcement What’s Next? In our previous blog, we introduced the evolving GenAI threat landscape and explained why traditional security models fall short for AI-powered applications 👉 Securing Azure AI Applic...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 21 May 2026 15:38:00 Z 2026-05-21T15:38:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/how-to-run-evals-for-model-router/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/how-to-run-evals-for-model-router/ Announcement Walk through running quality, cost, and latency evaluations for the Foundry model router using an open-source GitHub repo designed for router-aware eval pipelines. The post How to run evals for the model router appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 19 May 2026 16:34:07 Z 2026-05-19T16:34:07Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/now-in-foundry-tongyi-mai-z-image-turbo-with-flux-1-schnell-and-sdxl-base-1-0/4520199 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/now-in-foundry-tongyi-mai-z-image-turbo-with-flux-1-schnell-and-sdxl-base-1-0/4520199 Announcement This week's Model Mondays edition pairs three models available through the Hugging Face collection in Microsoft Foundry: Tongyi-MAI's Z-Image-Turbo, a new designed for lower latency on a single GPU a...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 18 May 2026 16:04:00 Z 2026-05-18T16:04:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/not-available-in-your-region-isnt-a-dead-end-a-security-assessment-of-global-dep/4509804 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/not-available-in-your-region-isnt-a-dead-end-a-security-assessment-of-global-dep/4509804 Announcement You want to build with the latest Microsoft Foundry model. You checked the regional availability, and it isn't there yet — only Global Standard. Now you're weighing the capability you actually need a...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Security Mon, 18 May 2026 15:45:00 Z 2026-05-18T15:45:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=562533 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=562533 Announcement Role names in Microsoft Foundry have been updated to align with the product brand. The following built-in roles are now renamed:Azure AI Account Owner → Foundry Account OwnerAzure AI Owner → Foundry OwnerAzure AI User → Foundry UserAzure AI Project Manage<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Container Registry, Azure Monitor, Categories: Management Fri, 15 May 2026 22:00:42 Z 2026-05-15T22:00:42Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/designing-ai-driven-observability-for-trustworthy-agentic-ai-systems/4508844 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/designing-ai-driven-observability-for-trustworthy-agentic-ai-systems/4508844 Announcement 1.Why Observability Changes in Agentic AI Systems A developer recently recounted how a single runaway AI agent loop burned through $500 in OpenAI API charges in just 45 minutes with no errors or al...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 15 May 2026 16:24:00 Z 2026-05-15T16:24:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/building-an-ai-powered-contract-price-adjustment-agent-with-docusign-mcp-and-mic/4515997 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/building-an-ai-powered-contract-price-adjustment-agent-with-docusign-mcp-and-mic/4515997 Announcement Acknowledgment: Special thanks to the Docusign Partner Solution Architects team for the original source code and examples that informed this implementation; I adapted and extended that foundation to ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 14 May 2026 20:29:00 Z 2026-05-14T20:29:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/open-model-inference-at-scale-on-foundry-what%E2%80%99s-new-with-fireworks-ai/4519534 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/open-model-inference-at-scale-on-foundry-what%E2%80%99s-new-with-fireworks-ai/4519534 Announcement We launched the public preview of Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry two months ago, bringing best-in-class open model inference directly into Azure. The traction has been real and high. Fireworks AI'...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 14 May 2026 16:09:00 Z 2026-05-14T16:09:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/nvidia-dynamo-on-aks---autoscaling-llm-inference/4499545 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/nvidia-dynamo-on-aks---autoscaling-llm-inference/4499545 Announcement Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly moving from experimentation to production. While training often gets the spotlight, inference at scale is where real-world complexity emerges—especially when ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Kubernetes Service, Categories: Wed, 13 May 2026 18:09:00 Z 2026-05-13T18:09:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-grok-4-3-on-microsoft-foundry-latest-generation-agentic-capabilities/4517096 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-grok-4-3-on-microsoft-foundry-latest-generation-agentic-capabilities/4517096 Announcement Customers building advanced AI systems increasingly need models that can reason deeply, act autonomously, and integrate reliably into real‑world workflows—all without compromising on governance or co...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 13 May 2026 16:12:00 Z 2026-05-13T16:12:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/private-networking-and-inference-in-microsoft-foundry-architecture-impact-on-ent/4513822 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/private-networking-and-inference-in-microsoft-foundry-architecture-impact-on-ent/4513822 Announcement Enterprise adoption of generative AI rarely fails because of model quality alone. More often, it fails at the intersection of network isolation, dependency reachability, and operational reality – esp...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 12 May 2026 22:11:00 Z 2026-05-12T22:11:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/foundry-local-v1-1/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/foundry-local-v1-1/ Announcement Foundry Local 1.1 adds live transcription, embeddings, Responses API, WebGPU plugin, and download cancellation. The post Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 12 May 2026 16:51:39 Z 2026-05-12T16:51:39Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/driving-efficiency-in-modern-system-engineering-with-ai-agents/4516181 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/driving-efficiency-in-modern-system-engineering-with-ai-agents/4516181 Announcement Authors: Pushpendra Kumar, Chockalingam A, Smitha Kashyap, Shilpi Gupta Overview As platforms become more complex and release cycles accelerate, traditional engineering workflows are beginning to...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 12 May 2026 15:34:00 Z 2026-05-12T15:34:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-apr-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-apr-2026/ Announcement April brings Foundry Local GA for local AI development, GPT-5.5 model support with Tier 5 and Tier 6 default quota in Microsoft Foundry, new tracing paths for Microsoft Agent Framework and hosted agents, CodeAct with Hyperlight for sandboxed agent code execution, expanded monitoring and continuous evaluation capabilities for production agents, SDK updates across Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, .NET, and Java, and a reminder to register for Microsoft Build. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 12 May 2026 07:13:15 Z 2026-05-12T07:13:15Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/a-new-chapter-for-realtime-ai-reasoning-translation-and-real-time-transcription/4517124 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/a-new-chapter-for-realtime-ai-reasoning-translation-and-real-time-transcription/4517124 Announcement Voice can be one of the most direct and productive interfaces for AI — enabling customer support agents that may resolve issues without a single keystroke, live multilingual communication that can ta...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 07 May 2026 17:59:00 Z 2026-05-07T17:59:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/now-in-foundry-ibm-granite-4-1-nvidia-nemotron-nano-omni-and-qwen3-6-35b-a3b/4516858 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/now-in-foundry-ibm-granite-4-1-nvidia-nemotron-nano-omni-and-qwen3-6-35b-a3b/4516858 Announcement This week Microsoft Foundry adds two major model families alongside a reasoning powerhouse that spans the full spectrum from specialized speech and vision to general-purpose coding and long-context a...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 06 May 2026 16:30:00 Z 2026-05-06T16:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/operationalizing-responsible-ai-in-microsoft-foundry-within-enterprise-network-b/4516869 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/operationalizing-responsible-ai-in-microsoft-foundry-within-enterprise-network-b/4516869 Announcement Strategic Overview Deploying Microsoft Foundry within a VNet-integrated landing zone requires a thoughtful balance between innovation and enterprise-grade security, especially in highly regulated i...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Virtual Network, Categories: Wed, 06 May 2026 05:23:00 Z 2026-05-06T05:23:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-openais-newest-chat-model-in-microsoft-foundry/4516848 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-openais-newest-chat-model-in-microsoft-foundry/4516848 Announcement OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant (or Chat-latest in the API) begins rolling out in Microsoft Foundry today as GPT-chat-latest. Built on GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.3-chat, the new model delivers measurable gains in fa...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 05 May 2026 18:10:00 Z 2026-05-05T18:10:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-deepseek-v4-flash-and-v4-pro-in-microsoft-foundry/4515174 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-deepseek-v4-flash-and-v4-pro-in-microsoft-foundry/4515174 Announcement As AI adoption matures, the conversation is shifting from model capability to system design, how to orchestrate models that deliver the right balance of quality, speed, and cost.  Today, we’re expa...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 01 May 2026 00:09:00 Z 2026-05-01T00:09:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/prompt-flow-is-being-retired/4513587 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/prompt-flow-is-being-retired/4513587 Announcement Prompt Flow in Microsoft Foundry and Azure Machine Learning will be retired on 20 April 2027. Customers should begin migrating existing Prompt Flow applications and deployments to Microsoft Agent Fra...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Machine Learning, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:15:00 Z 2026-04-30T21:15:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-post-stream-refinement-higher-accuracy-real-time-transcription/4510038 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-post-stream-refinement-higher-accuracy-real-time-transcription/4510038 Announcement Real-time speech recognition has always been defined by a fundamental trade-off: speed versus accuracy. Applications that need instant, streaming transcription — live captions, voice agents, real-tim...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:05:00 Z 2026-04-30T15:05:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/voice-live-api-now-supports-webrtc-preview/4516002 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/voice-live-api-now-supports-webrtc-preview/4516002 Announcement We are thrilled to announce that Voice Live API now supports WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) connection, enabling low‑latency, real‑time voice interactions directly from web and mobile clients. ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:00:00 Z 2026-04-30T15:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/operating-ai-agents-on-azure-observability-with-azure-ai-foundry/4515975 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/operating-ai-agents-on-azure-observability-with-azure-ai-foundry/4515975 Announcement Azure AI Foundry is Microsoft’s enterprise platform for building, deploying, and operating AI applications and intelligent agents as first‑class Azure workloads. From an infrastructure perspective, F...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:15:00 Z 2026-04-29T19:15:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560982 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560982 GA Microsoft Agent Framework is now version 1.0 for both .NET and Python, with stable APIs and a long-term support commitment. Agent Framework 1.0 supports multi-agent orchestration, multi-provider model support, and cross-runtime interoperability via A2A an<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, SDK and Tools Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:15:05 Z 2026-04-29T18:15:05Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560992 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560992 Preview Foundry’s memory (preview) is a managed long-term memory capability built directly into Foundry Agent Service and now integrates natively with Microsoft Agent Framework and LangGraph— no external databases to provision, scale, or secure.<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, Services Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:55 Z 2026-04-29T00:00:55Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/architecting-cost-aware-llm-workloads-with-model-router-in-microsoft-foundry/4514440 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/architecting-cost-aware-llm-workloads-with-model-router-in-microsoft-foundry/4514440 Announcement The architectural problem In any non-trivial GenAI platform, you end up managing a fleet of models. Cheap models for classification and light chat. Reasoning models for multi-step tasks. Frontier m...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:45:00 Z 2026-04-28T17:45:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/organaize---what-happens-when-you-let-ai-agents-organize-themselves/4509792 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/organaize---what-happens-when-you-let-ai-agents-organize-themselves/4509792 Announcement The problem I wanted to explore Most agentic AI systems today follow a familiar pattern: you design the workflow, you decide which agents exist, you wire the communication between them. That works ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:30:00 Z 2026-04-28T16:30:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/bring-your-own-model-to-foundry-agent-service-is-now-generally-available/4515133 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/bring-your-own-model-to-foundry-agent-service-is-now-generally-available/4515133 GA Enterprise teams building AI agents often need to route model requests through their own infrastructure — whether for compliance, governance, or other controls provided by gateways. Today, we are exc...<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:15:00 Z 2026-04-27T21:15:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=561002 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=561002 GA Foundry Agent Service now supports bring‑your‑own‑model scenarios, allowing agents to use AI models deployed and managed outside of Foundry, including models hosted behind enterprise AI gateways such as Azure API Management. This enables organizations to<br />Update Type: GA, Services: API Management, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, Services Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:00:52 Z 2026-04-27T18:00:52Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/azure-ai-foundry-vs-traditional-ml-pipelines-what%E2%80%99s-different-and-why-it-matters/4508897 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructureblog/azure-ai-foundry-vs-traditional-ml-pipelines-what%E2%80%99s-different-and-why-it-matters/4508897 Announcement The Traditional ML Pipeline: What It Was Built For Traditional ML pipelines typically look like this: Data ingestion and preparation Model training (often batch‑oriented) Model validation a...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:06:00 Z 2026-04-27T06:06:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560997 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560997 Preview Hosted agents run in an isolated execution sandbox that provides a dedicated, secure runtime per agent session. Sessions start with a clean environment with no shared state between sessions, no cross-session data leakage, and strong compute boundaries bet<br />Update Type: Preview, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, Services Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:15:17 Z 2026-04-24T18:15:17Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560987 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=560987 GA Foundry Toolkit for VS Code is now generally available and provides VS Code tooling for Microsoft Agent Framework, including agent creation from templates or via GitHub Copilot, local test/debug with visualization and traces, and direct deployment to Foun<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:15:17 Z 2026-04-24T18:15:17Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/deploying-an-agentic-service-to-microsoft-365-copilot-with-delegated-obo-access/4514197 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/deploying-an-agentic-service-to-microsoft-365-copilot-with-delegated-obo-access/4514197 Announcement You've built an agentic service. It works. It uses the framework you chose — maybe LangChain, maybe Semantic Kernel, maybe the Microsoft Agent Framework, maybe something entirely your own. It talk...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:00:00 Z 2026-04-24T13:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/gpt-capability-in-understanding-coordinates-how-gpt-5-4-transforms-spatial-preci/4506726 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/gpt-capability-in-understanding-coordinates-how-gpt-5-4-transforms-spatial-preci/4506726 Announcement   Why I Ran This Experiment This work started not as a benchmarking exercise, but as a practical problem: I needed to automatically extract panel regions from PDF-format electrical Single...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:00:00 Z 2026-04-23T19:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/automate-prior-authorization-with-ai-agents---now-available-as-a-foundry-templat/4513432 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/automate-prior-authorization-with-ai-agents---now-available-as-a-foundry-templat/4513432 Announcement By Amit Mukherjee · Principal Solutions Engineer, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Lindsey Craft-Goins · Technology Leader - Cloud & AI Platforms, Health & Life Sciences Joel Borellis · Director ...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:00:00 Z 2026-04-23T16:00:00Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/openais-gpt-5-5-in-microsoft-foundry-frontier-intelligence-on-an-enterprise-ready-platform https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/openais-gpt-5-5-in-microsoft-foundry-frontier-intelligence-on-an-enterprise-ready-platform Announcement OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 in Microsoft Foundry: Frontier intelligence on an enterprise ready platform OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 will be generally available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing OpenAI’s latest frontier model to Azure and the enterprise teams building agents for real production work.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 Z 2026-04-23T00:00:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/introducing-toolboxes-in-foundry/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/introducing-toolboxes-in-foundry/ Announcement Available in Public Preview Today   Toolbox is a new way to curate, configure, and reuse tools across all of your AI agents without rewiring them every time from Foundry.  Today, teams build agents across different frameworks and runtimes. Each agent often wires tools directly, with its own authentication, credentials, and integration code. As organizations scale agent usage, this leads […] The post Introducing Toolboxes in Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:30:43 Z 2026-04-22T17:30:43Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/from-local-to-production-the-complete-developer-journey-for-building-composing-and-deploying-ai-agents/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/from-local-to-production-the-complete-developer-journey-for-building-composing-and-deploying-ai-agents/ Announcement When we launched Microsoft Agent Framework last October, we made a promise: building production-grade AI agents should feel as natural and structured as building any other software. Today, we’re delivering on that promise — with the v1.0 release of Microsoft Agent Framework and the general availability of Foundry Toolkit for Visual Studio Code (formerly AI […] The post From Local to Production: The Complete Developer Journey for Building, Composing, and Deploying AI Agents appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:30:12 Z 2026-04-22T17:30:12Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/introducing-the-new-hosted-agents-in-foundry-agent-service-secure-scalable-compute-built-for-agents/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/introducing-the-new-hosted-agents-in-foundry-agent-service-secure-scalable-compute-built-for-agents/ Announcement Agents are already transforming how developers solve problems. Whether it’s a coding agent that refactors your repo overnight, a research agent that synthesizes hundreds of documents into a brief, or an ops agent that monitors and remediates infrastructure — the pattern is clear. Developers are building agents that don’t just answer questions, they go do […] The post Introducing the new hosted agents in Foundry Agent Service: secure, scalable compute built for agents appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Services Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:30:03 Z 2026-04-22T17:30:03Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/three-tiers-of-agentic-ai---and-when-to-use-none-of-them/4510377 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/three-tiers-of-agentic-ai---and-when-to-use-none-of-them/4510377 Announcement Every enterprise has an AI agent. Almost none of them work in production. Walk into any enterprise technology review right now and you will find the same thing. Pilots running. Demos recorded. Stee...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:00:00 Z 2026-04-22T16:00:00Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-kimi-k2-6-in-microsoft-foundry/4513125 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-kimi-k2-6-in-microsoft-foundry/4513125 Announcement We’re excited to welcome Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.6 to Microsoft Foundry expanding the platform’s growing catalog of open and frontier models designed for real-world, production-grade AI systems. Kimi...<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:56:00 Z 2026-04-22T15:56:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-foundry-finetune-april-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-foundry-finetune-april-2026/ Announcement April 2026 brings three major Reinforcement Fine-Tuning updates: Global Training for o4-mini with lower per-token rates across 12+ regions, new GPT-4.1 model graders for richer reward signals, and a comprehensive RFT best practices guide to help you ship specialized models faster. The post What’s New in Microsoft Foundry Fine-Tuning | April 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Regions & Datacenters Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:34:46 Z 2026-04-16T19:34:46Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-mar-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-mar-2026/ Announcement March ships Foundry Agent Service GA with private networking, GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Mini, Priority Processing, Phi-4 Reasoning Vision, SDK 2.0 GA across Python, JS/TS, Java, and .NET, Fireworks AI and NVIDIA Nemotron models, and third-party guardrails from Palo Alto and Zenity. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | March 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Services Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:33:53 Z 2026-04-09T23:33:53Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/foundry-local-ga/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/foundry-local-ga/ GA Ship local AI to millions of devices - fast, private on-device inference with no per-token costs. The post Foundry Local is now Generally Available appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:00:00 Z 2026-04-09T19:00:00Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azd-ai-agent-end-to-end/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azd-ai-agent-end-to-end/ Announcement Deploy and monitor an AI agent on Microsoft Foundry using the Azure Developer CLI (azd). This tutorial covers infrastructure scaffolding with Bicep, one-command deployment, local development, and real-time log streaming—all from Visual Studio Code. The post From code to cloud: Deploy an AI agent to Microsoft Foundry in minutes with azd appeared first on Azure SDK Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:54:40 Z 2026-03-23T16:54:40Z https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/remote-mcp-server-preview-in-microsoft-foundry/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/remote-mcp-server-preview-in-microsoft-foundry/ Announcement Earlier this week we release the public preview for our Azure DevOps MCP Server. Today we are excited to let you know that the Azure DevOps MCP Server is now available to use in Microsoft Foundry. For those who are new to Foundry, Microsoft Foundry is a unified platform for building and managing AI powered […] The post Remote MCP Server preview in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Azure DevOps Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Azure DevOps, Categories: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:48:10 Z 2026-03-19T17:48:10Z https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=557141 https://azure.microsoft.com/updates?id=557141 GA Announcing general availability (GA) of the next-gen Foundry Agent Service—a redesigned API format and runtime experience designed to help teams build and operate agents that can move from prototype to production with confidence. This GA moment is anchore<br />Update Type: GA, Services: Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Features, Services Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:45:45 Z 2026-03-17T17:45:45Z https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-fireworks-ai-on-microsoft-foundry-bringing-high-performance-low-latency-open-model-inference-to-azure https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/introducing-fireworks-ai-on-microsoft-foundry-bringing-high-performance-low-latency-open-model-inference-to-azure Announcement Introducing Fireworks AI on Microsoft Foundry: Bringing high performance, low latency open model inference to Azure With Fireworks AI, we’re extending the Microsoft Foundry platform with high performance inference for state-of-the-art open models on Azure.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 2026-03-11T00:00:00+01:00 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-feb-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-feb-2026/ Announcement February brings Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 with 1M-token context, GPT-Realtime-1.5 and GPT-Audio-1.5, Grok 4.0 GA, the Microsoft Agent Framework reaching Release Candidate, and the Foundry REST API quietly going GA — laying the foundation for imminent SDK GA announcements across Python, .NET, JS/TS, and Java. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | February 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:08:31 Z 2026-03-06T23:08:31Z https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-gpt-5-4-in-microsoft-foundry/4499785 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/introducing-gpt-5-4-in-microsoft-foundry/4499785 Announcement Introducing GPT-5.4 in Microsoft Foundry Today, we’re announcing OpenAI’s GPT‑5.4 to be generally available soon in Microsoft Foundry: a model designed to help organizations move from planning work to reliably completing it in production environments.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:11:40 +0100 2026-03-05T19:11:40+01:00 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-dec-2025-jan-2026/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-dec-2025-jan-2026/ Announcement Catch up on all the new models, audio updates, fine-tuning expansions, and SDK updates from Microsoft Foundry spanning December 2025 and January 2026 — including GPT-5.2, Codex Max, DeepSeek V3.2, FLUX.2, and the azure-ai-projects v2 beta consolidation. The post What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | Dec 2025 & Jan 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Foundry Blog.<br />Update Type: Announcement, Services: Azure AI Services, Microsoft Foundry, Categories: Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:01:09 Z 2026-02-19T01:01:09Z