Most agents are still waiting in a chat window. They may be capable of classifying an incident, finding the right documentation, or recommending an owner - but nothing happens until someone remembe...

Background Your Terraform workflow already manages your Azure infrastructure but deploying hosted agents still requires manual SDK calls or REST API scripts. This post shows you how to bring agent ...

Today, we're announcing the general availability of the Foundry IQ integration with Microsoft Copilot Studio. Users can connect a Foundry IQ knowledge base to an agent in Copilot Studio, giving the a...

A voice agent has to do more than hear a request and produce a reply. It has to keep the interaction moving while it listens, reasons, uses tools, and speaks. A delay at either end can turn a convers...

A better score does not always mean a safer release An AI agent can produce a polished response and still take an action it was never permitted to take. Consider a retail support agent handling a...

A Microsoft Foundry handover story The infrastructure team has finished the AI landing zone. The Microsoft Foundry project exists. The prompt agent is already created, connected to its model, and c...

Today, we’re introducing Cohere Embed V5 Pro and Embed V5 Fast in Microsoft Foundry, bringing stronger multimodal retrieval to enterprise search and AI applications. With Fast and Pro options, suppor...

Introducing auto : a new retrieval reasoning effort mode that recovers 97.6% of the evidence recall of the highest effort level at 46.9% fewer query planning tokens. Enterprise retrieval workloads...

Today, OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol is generally available in Microsoft Foundry. GPT-6.1 Sol is an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol, delivering substantial improvements in agentic coding, computer use, and professional ...

Today, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing Anthropic’s latest Sonnet model to developers building AI applications and agents.  Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficie...