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commandline: Microsoft Scout: From personal project to enterprise-ready personal agent

Microsoft Command Line Blog

2026-06-02

Microsoft Scout is described as an always-on personal AI agent that moved from a personal project into an enterprise-ready, secure product. The article is a discussion with Omar Shahine and Jakob Werner about the design and build process.

commandline: The agent optimization loop and how we built it in Foundry

Microsoft Command Line Blog

2026-06-02

The article describes Microsoft’s approach to agent optimization in Foundry, reframing the problem to identify the factors that matter most and implementing a new optimization loop. The provided excerpt is high level and does not include technical details.

commandline: Grounding at scale: Engineering the retrieval system for the agentic web

Microsoft Command Line Blog

2026-06-02

Microsoft introduced Web IQ, a new grounding system for the agentic web. The note is brief and does not include implementation details or feature specifics.

azure: [Launched] Public Preview: Hosted Agents in Microsoft Foundry Agent Service

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Foundry Agent Service now has a public preview for Hosted Agents, a container-based runtime for deploying custom agent code on Microsoft-managed infrastructure. Each Hosted Agent runs in a per-session VM-isolated environment.

azure: [Launched] Public Preview: Azure API Management now supports token metrics for all token types

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure API Management Public Preview adds token metrics for all token types. It extends tracking beyond prompt and completion tokens to include newer categories such as cached, reasoning, and thinking tokens.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Speech SDK 1.50 for Azure AI Speech

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Speech SDK 1.50 is now generally available for Azure AI Speech across all supported languages. It provides the latest speech-to-text and text-to-speech updates behind a stable API surface.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Service-managed failover in Azure DocumentDB

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure DocumentDB service-managed failover for multi-region clusters is now generally available. In a regional outage, Azure DocumentDB automatically fails over the globally distributed cluster from the primary region to another region.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Region-agnostic reservations for Global PTU in Microsoft Foundry

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Microsoft Foundry now offers generally available region-agnostic reservations for Global Provisioned Throughput Units (PTUs). Customers can reserve PTU capacity once and use it from any supported region instead of being tied to a single region.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Photo Avatar standard and custom in Azure AI Speech

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Photo Avatar in Azure AI Speech is now generally available in both standard and custom versions. Standard Photo Avatar generates a talking-head video from a single photo at 512x512 resolution, and custom Photo Avatar allows look fine-tuning from your own images.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Per-partition automatic failover for Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Per-partition automatic failover (PPAF) is now generally available in Azure Cosmos DB. It allows failover at the partition level instead of failing over an entire account during a regional disruption, improving recovery time and availability.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Override Scale Rules in Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

Azure Functions on Azure Container Apps now supports overriding platform-managed scaling rules through the new allowScalingRuleOverride property. This lets customers replace the automatically translated KEDA scale rules with their own scaling configuration.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Oracle schema conversion to Azure PostgreSQL in Visual Studio Code

Azure Updates

2026-06-02

The PostgreSQL extension for Visual Studio Code now supports converting Oracle database schema objects into Azure Database for PostgreSQL-compatible schema. The workflow is project-based and runs directly in VS Code.