Microsoft launched seven first-party AI models at Build 2026, creating a direct alternative to OpenAI’s offerings on Azure and signaling a strategic shift in how the company plans to serve developers.

An employee pulls out a server rack shelf at the rear of a Trainium3 UltraServer at an Amazon Web Services QA lab in Austin, Texas, on February 3, 2026. Tech titan Amazon is working to step out of ...

Claude models reached GA on Microsoft Foundry with Azure-native billing and governance, but no European data zone exists.

Cloudflare released the Cloudflare One stack, an open-source library of agent skills for planning, deploying, and managing ...

Anthropic’s Claude models are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry, giving Azure developers and enterprise application teams another major frontier model option inside Microsoft’s cloud AI ...

Microsoft is promising relief to engineers who get woken up at 3 a.m.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has gained considerable momentum as a standard connector between LLM-powered tools and local systems, internal and external APIs, and data sources. From major clouds to ...

This brief explains how Multiplexing may impact the licensing needs of Microsoft customers. “Multiplexing” is any method (for example, hardware, software, or automation) used to: pool connections or ...

Which feature in SQL Server and Azure Synapse Analytics lets you run T-SQL queries against external data stores and makes those external sources appear as tables in a SQL database?