Microsoft has brought its fourth Indian cloud region online, declaring general availability of the India South Central region in Hyderabad, Telangana on August 6, 2026. The three-availability-zone build is the largest hyperscale region Microsoft operates in the country and, by the company's count, gives it the biggest hyperscale cloud footprint of any provider in India. The region is the first concrete capacity delivery against the US$17.5 billion India commitment Microsoft announced on… [...]
Microsoft last week took Agent 365, its management platform for AI agents, out of preview and into general availability — a move that signals the software giant believes the governance challenge aro [...]
Xbox owners got a bit of a nasty surprise thanks to Microsoft’s sudden announcement today that the monthly cost of a Game Pass Ultimate subscription is getting a 50 percent increase. The new $30 mon [...]
Hybrid cloud security was built before the current era of automated, machine-based cyberattacks that take just milliseconds to execute and minutes to deliver devastating impacts to infrastructure. The [...]
Microsoft today announced the general availability of Agent 365 and Microsoft 365 Enterprise 7, two products designed to bring security and governance to the rapidly growing population of AI agents op [...]
Microsoft and OpenAI on Monday announced a sweeping overhaul of the partnership that has defined the commercial AI era, dismantling key pillars of exclusivity and revenue-sharing that bound the two co [...]
For three years, Microsoft's artificial intelligence story has been inseparable from OpenAI. The partnership — cemented by a cumulative investment exceeding $13 billion — gave Microsoft early [...]
Microsoft on Wednesday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state-of-the-art speech transcription system, a voice generation engine, and an upgraded image creator [...]
If you thought Anthropic was about to run away with the enterprise AI business...you're not totally off the mark, actually.This morning, Microsoft announced "Copilot Cowork" a new cloud [...]
Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high [...]