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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 thing.
The gap shows up quickly. Your customer support agent handles...
Read moreClick to read more about this postHow Microsoft is migrating repositories to GitHub
For the past decade, Azure DevOps has powered software development at Microsoft, supporting some of our largest repositories and most complex engineering workflows across Azure Repos, Boards, and Pipelines.
Software development is being reshaped by AI, and where code lives now have a...
Read moreClick to read more about this postBuild 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework
9 min read · June 3, 2026 · Sebastian Kohlmeier
Shipping an AI agent is the easy part. Keeping it accurate, safe, and accountable in production is where teams get stuck. Agents are non-deterministic. Their behavior shifts as models update, tools change, and traffic...
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Jun 3, 2026
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Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026: Agent Harness, Hosted Agents, CodeAct, and more
Microsoft Agent Framework at BUILD 2026: Agent Harness, Hosted Agents, CodeAct, and more
BUILD 2026 is underway, and the Microsoft Agent Framework team have a round-up of exciting announcements! Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) is our open-source SDK and runtime for building AI agents...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Jun 3, 2026
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Announcing Foundry Managed Compute: Run open models in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry Managed Compute is a new GPU platform-as-a-service for hosting open-source and custom AI models behind the same endpoint, SDKs, and bill as frontier models.
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Jun 3, 2026
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Introducing Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service
Luis,
Victor
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 thing.
The gap shows up quickly. Your customer support agent handles...
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Jun 3, 2026
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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 need agents that not only remember facts, but also apply what they have learned to...
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Jun 3, 2026
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Discovery to Execution: Scaling Agents with Toolboxes and Routines in Microsoft Foundry
Linda,
Maria
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 tools has quickly become one of the biggest challenges in building production-grade...
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Jun 3, 2026
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From Building Agents to Working with Them: Enterprise Agent Distribution in Microsoft Foundry
The past year was about building agents. The next year is about putting them to work.
Organizations have moved quickly from experimenting with AI agents to building ones that perform complex business processes and execute long-running tasks. But the bottleneck has shifted. The...
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Jun 3, 2026
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Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc's unidirectional rotation algorithm
We've seen this before.
The Old New Thing
Jun 2, 2026
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Build smarter document workflows: What's new in Azure Content Understanding at Build 2026
Peyton,
Joe,
Ronak
Azure Content Understanding (CU) 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 information to power well-grounded, reliable generative AI and agentic solutions....
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Jun 2, 2026
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Build, scale, and monetize apps and agents with Microsoft Marketplace
At Microsoft Build, we are sharing how Microsoft Marketplace brings development, distribution, and monetization together— so apps and agents move beyond prototyping into real-world usage at scale. Microsoft Marketplace connects tens of thousands of cloud and AI solutions built by...
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