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azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Microsoft Foundry IQ

Azure Updates

2026-06-04

Microsoft Foundry IQ is now generally available. It provides a managed knowledge layer for grounding agents in enterprise data, with connectors to sources such as SharePoint, OneLake, and Azure Blob.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Fabric IQ Ontology Knowledge Source in Microsoft Foundry IQ

Azure Updates

2026-06-04

Microsoft Foundry IQ now supports Microsoft Fabric Ontology as a federated knowledge source in public preview. This lets agents query the semantic layer already defined in Fabric using natural language questions.

security: Updating the taxonomy of failure modes in agentic AI systems: What a year of red teaming taught us

Microsoft Security Blog

2026-06-04

Microsoft Security Blog says a year of red teaming agentic AI systems led to an updated failure-mode taxonomy. The update adds seven new failure modes, including supply chain compromise and goal hijacking, along with recommended mitigations.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Content Understanding chunking and image verbalization in Azure AI Search

Azure Updates

2026-06-04

Azure AI Search public preview adds Content Understanding chunking and image verbalization to the built-in indexing skill. Indexers can now split documents into semantically meaningful chunks and generate text from images during parsing.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Azure Monitor Service Level Indicators (SLI)

Azure Updates

2026-06-04

Azure Monitor now supports Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) in general availability. The feature helps teams measure application experience using customer-facing metrics rather than only infrastructure signals.

commandline: Watch Satya Nadella on a No Priors x Latent Space crossover special

Microsoft Command Line Blog

2026-06-04

A podcast crossover episode featuring Satya Nadella discussing Build announcements and their impact on the developer ecosystem.

ai: Accelerate Edge AI Development with Foundry Local

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-06-04

Microsoft announced Foundry Local for edge AI development, aimed at making it easier to build AI experiences that run inside apps, devices, and other edge systems. The post highlights common production challenges such as model packaging, runtime fragmentation, and hardware differences.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: MAI-Voice-2 in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry now includes MAI-Voice-2 in public preview. The first-party Microsoft AI voice model supports natural speech in more than 10 languages, voice cloning from a short reference sample, and voice prompting.

ai: Build 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2026-06-03

Microsoft’s Build 2026 post frames AI agent production challenges around accuracy, safety, accountability, and silent drift after deployment. It points to end-to-end observability as the path to managing agents across frameworks and tying operations back to business ROI.

azure: [Launched] General Availability: Backup your ledger files for audit with Azure confidential ledger’s new tool

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Azure Confidential Ledger introduced a new localized web tool for backing up ledger files so auditors can inspect them and verify cryptographic proofs. The update is in general availability.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Text Analytics for Health NextGen Playground in Azure AI Language

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

The next-generation Text Analytics for Health (TA4H) playground is now generally available in the Microsoft Foundry portal. It lets users paste clinical text such as discharge summaries, doctor’s notes, or research abstracts for analysis.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: User feedback logging in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-06-03

Microsoft Foundry preview adds end-user feedback logging for AI agents. It lets developers capture structured user feedback such as thumbs up/down, ratings, and custom annotations, and associate that feedback with agent interactions.