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January (1)

dotnet: Secure and Intelligent: Queryable Encryption and Vector Search in MongoDB EF Core Provider

.NET

2026-01-07

The MongoDB EF Core provider adds support for Queryable Encryption and Vector Search, letting .NET developers encrypt sensitive data while still running queries against it and build AI-powered semantic search applications directly using EF Core.

2025 (3)

November (3)

ai: How to debug and optimize RAG agents in Microsoft Foundry

Microsoft AI Foundry Blog

2025-11-20

This tutorial shows how to evaluate and optimize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) agents in Microsoft Foundry using Foundry Observability. It recommends running end-to-end, reference-free RAG triad evaluators (Groundedness and Relevance) and applying advanced search and retrieval tuning before deployment.

azure: [Launched] Generally Available: Float16 data type for vector indexes in Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure Cosmos DB now generally supports the float16 (half-precision) data type for vector indexes, letting you store and query vectors with half-precision floats to reduce storage needs compared with float32.

azure: [In preview] Public Preview: Azure SQL Database DiskANN vector indexing

Azure Updates

2025-11-18

Azure announces public preview of DiskANN-based vector indexing in Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and SQL databases in Microsoft Fabric, enabling efficient disk-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) vector similarity search inside relational database services.