Microsoft announced the availability of Phi-3-mini and Phi-3-medium small language models for fine-tuning on Azure, allowing developers to customize these models for various use cases.
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Microsoft has revealed it will deprecate the Virtual Network Injection feature for Azure Data Explorer. No new customers can use this feature, and current users will see it shut down on Feb. 1, 2025.
Microsoft quietly revealed this week it will retire Azure Lab Services due to its many other virtual desktop services. However, the actual retirement won't happen for nearly three years.
Microsoft has announced the availability of GPT-4o mini, OpenAI's fastest model, on Azure OpenAI Service. This model is available for free trial in the Azure OpenAI Studio Playground.
Microsoft is gradually implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Azure users to enhance security. This rollout will occur in two phases. All existing Azure MFA methods are supported.
Microsoft has revealed more improvements and additions to its Azure AI Speech services. They include even more AI-based voices, new chat avatars, and a new Text Stream API for faster speech generation
As part of Build 2024, Microsoft has announced that its in-house Arm-based Azure Cobalt 100 processor is now available to try out with its new Azure Virtual Machines via a preview program.
Microsoft's plans to become carbon-negative by 2030 have taken a hit due to big increases in indirect emissions from building new data centers. They have gone up by over 30 percent since 2020.
Microsoft has announced that GPT-4o, the latest AI large language model from OpenAI, is now available to access from its Azure OpenAI Service in a preview version with text and image support.
Microsoft has announced that Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is now available in the Azure Marketplace so that you can use it in an Azure Virtual Machine. This version will be supported for up to 12 years.
After adding the Mistral Large LLM as an option for its Azure AI services, Microsoft has included the Mistral Small LLM as well. It is supposed to be used for high-volume workloads with low latency.
Microsoft has announced that customers who access its Azure AI services can now use nine more realistic-sounding AI voices. They are designed to offer conversational responses to questions.
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service has launched a public preview of a new feature that offers businesses real-time detection and mitigation of abusive generative AI requests from end users.
Microsoft has decided to kill the cloud-based Test Base for Microsoft 365 service as it believes Windows 11's "continuous innovation" has resolved a high percentage of compatibility issues.
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Microsoft has added GitHub Copilot Chat integration into the Azure Migrate application and code assessment extension for Visual Studio. Like GitHub Copilot, this feature will require a subscription.
Microsoft has announced that its On Your Data feature for its Azure OpenAI Service is now generally available. It lets businesses use LLMs on their data with enterprise-grade security.
Microsoft posted a blog post late on Friday, announcing that the Azure IoT Central deprecation in 2027 message was a mistake. The company remains committed to Azure IoT Central and its services.
Microsoft has become the second company to reach a $3 trillion market valuation. Led by CEO Satya Nadella's focus on cloud and AI, Microsoft has experienced tremendous growth for years.
Vodafone is joining hands with Microsoft to harness the power of AI, Cloud and other digital services in an attempt to "transform the customer experience" across Europe, the UK, and Africa.
Microsoft continues its plans to end support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 from its services with today's reveal that both will be removed from Azure storage accounts on Nov. 1.
Microsoft teamed up with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to make a new and better lithium battery, with the help of Microsoft's AI and its Azure Quantum Elements services.
A new report says that Microsoft-owned LinkedIn has put its previously announced plans to relocate data centers to its parent company's Azure cloud servers on hold for the time being
AMD announced its new generative AI-based chips, the Instinct MI300 Series, and Microsoft was among a number of companies who stated it would start using versions of the chip in its services.
Microsoft has announced it plans to give startup companies free access to its Azure AI services, including GPU virtual machine clusters, so they can train and run large language models.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared on stage as part of OpenAI's first DevDay developer conference and used it to reinforce the two companies' partnership and its plans for the future.
Canonical has become the first Linux provider to enable a snapshot service for its Microsoft Azure instances. It hopes that this feature will deliver more safety and predictability for admins.
Microsoft and Siemens have launched Siemens Industrial Copilot, an AI assistant jointly developed to improve productivity in manufacturing. It can rapidly generate and debug complex automation code.
Microsoft has just announced Radius, a new platform for developing and managing cloud-based apps. It is an open source platform that can be used with Azure, Amazon Web Services, and private clouds.
Microsoft recently started Windows 11 23H2 hardware certification to ensure compatibility. Now the company is doing the same for Microsoft 365 services with improvements to the Test Base.
Microsoft has announced that it will be introducing four new AI text-to-speech voices optimised for conversations which can be used for chatbots, voice assistants or conversational agents.
Due to a misconfigured cloud storage setting on GitHub, Microsoft accidentally exposed over 38TB of internal data for over two years. This includes backups of employee passwords and messages.
The new Typeface Ai app will allow enterprise users of Microsoft Teams to collaborate on creating content with the assistance of generative AI via Azure Machine Learning and Azure OpenAI Service,
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Microsoft's Azure Firewall service, which helps to protect workloads on the company's Azure cloud servers, has added some new features in both public preview and general availability.
Microsoft Azure managed to grow 26% during the second quarter year-over-year. At that growth rate, it did better than Amazon Web Services but was behind Google Cloud which grew by 31%.
Aptos Labs will integrate Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service with its network. Microsoft's AI models will be trained on the Aptos blockchain, while Aptos will run validator nodes on Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft said Chinese hackers accessed US and EU government email accounts. Senator Wyden asked authorities to investigate Microsoft's role and negligence. They worry about the encryption keys.
Microsoft has announced the availability of Azure Managed Lustre. It said this first-party managed service on Azure is available through two instances that offer different performance options.
Chinese companies could soon be restricted from using some Microsoft cloud services. The US is supposedly readying restrictions that would limit Chinese access to cloud services that use AI chips.