Perplexity AI has signed a $750 million deal with Microsoft to access a wider range of frontier models from OpenAI and xAI via Microsoft Foundry.

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As agent-based AI systems grow more sophisticated, developers are moving well beyond basic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) into a new era of autonomous, tool-integrated, and multi-agent ...

Amid the AI-heavy headlines at Microsoft's annual conference, several behind-the-scenes updates landed that could have a major impact on how IT teams build, run and scale core infrastructure in Azure.

Microsoft used Ignite 2025 to push Azure Cosmos DB further into AI search and agentic workflows, highlighting new capabilities aimed at developers building retrieval-heavy applications and multi-agent ...

Microsoft and Nvidia are also investing into Anthropic as part of new strategic partnerships. Microsoft and Nvidia are also investing into Anthropic as part of new strategic partnerships. is a senior ...

Microsoft Azure experienced a global outage on October 29. Microsoft customer-facing services were affected. Recovery came later that same day, but some problems linger. Last week, Amazon Web Services ...

Azure outage affected global industries, including airlines and airports Microsoft 365 services impacted by Azure configuration change Outage follows recent Amazon AWS disruption, highlighting tech ...

A technical issue in Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform today disrupted several online services operated by the tech giant and its customers. Starbucks Corp., Costco Wholescale Corp. and Capital ...

Thousands of users were reporting outages across Microsoft services and a variety of other products midday on Wednesday, Oct. 29. Thousands of users reported issues or outages with Microsoft Azure, a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Microsoft has deployed a fix to address an outage of their Azure cloud portal that left users unable to access Office 365, Minecraft and other services. The tech company wrote on its ...