The Microsoft Foundry "What's New — June 2026" devblog post (published Jul 7, 2026) documents a broad set of Azure AI platform releases, headlined by Anthropic Claude reaching general availability on Azure with the Messages API, prompt caching, extended thinking, and tool streaming, plus integration as the reasoning co Toolboxes gain Skills, Work IQ, Fabric IQ, Browser Automation, and Tool Search (all preview), with Routines in preview for scheduled and triggered agent execution, and Agent Optimizer entering private preview as a closed-loop evaluate-generate-rank-deploy workflow. Memory adds procedural memory, management experiences,

Microsoft Foundry now supports Claude Fable 5, unlocking advanced agent capabilities for long-running tasks, enterprise workflows, and AI-driven productivity.

OpenAI is gradually shedding one of its key early partners as it looks toward going public.

The Azure OpenAI in Microsoft Foundry Models "what's new" page documents several concrete additions: GPT Realtime 2.0 (preview) with reasoning support, response phases (preamble and final answer), and stricter instruction following; plus companion models GPT Realtime Translate for continuous stream-based audio translat For developers building voice-first applications on Microsoft Foundry, these updates translate into a clearer portfolio: gpt-realtime-1.5 and gpt-audio-1.5 for production real-time interactions, GPT Realtime 2.0 (preview) for experiments that need explicit reasoning and response-phase control, and GPT Realtime Translat

Microsoft this week announced that its Azure OpenAI service has reached the "general availability" commercial-release stage.

The Azure China docs "What's New" page for Azure AI Search documents the 2026-04-01 stable REST API with multiple GA features: search index knowledge sources, blob knowledge sources, web knowledge sources, index aliases, knowledge source status, Azure Content Understanding skill, and Markdown one-to-one and one-to-many Additional 2026-04-01 GA items include user-assigned managed identity for indexer connections, knowledge store connections, and customer-managed encryption key access to Azure Key Vault. Split billing consent for semantic ranker and agentic retrieval is now independent, with all search services automatically on the fre

Microsoft's Azure AI Search June 2026 release introduces a 2026-05-01-preview REST API providing programmatic access to data plane operations, alongside continued emphasis on Foundry IQ — a managed knowledge layer that turns enterprise content into reusable, permission-aware knowledge bases for agents in the Microsoft For developers, the 2026-05-01-preview represents the current surface for evaluating new Azure AI Search capabilities, including CORS-driven browser integrations and the deeper coupling with Foundry IQ for agent scenarios. Azure explicitly flags that the preview cannot modify access permissions set outside of it, and a

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