Build smarter document workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding at Build 2026

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

Discovery to Execution: Scaling Agents with Toolboxes and Routines in Microsoft Foundry

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 too

Expanding the Reach of Document Translation – New Capabilities Announced at Microsoft Build

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 work

Introducing Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service

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 th

Making agent memory more reliable, transparent, and production-ready

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 n

A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry

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 t

Azure Translator: Improving Translation Quality with Adaptive Datasets and Few‑Shot Learning

Your healthcare app needs “La médica” not “El médico.” Your legal documents need precise terminology, not generic translations. When domain-specific language matters, generic L

Build and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026

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 opt

Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval

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: Bui

GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience

At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work. The post GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience appeared first