Azure Workloads
What’s new?
- 🤖 Adaptive cloud: new options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure
- 💻 Foundry Local: On-device AI model inference with complete data privacy
Deep links
- Adaptive cloud: New options for AI-powered innovation, resiliency, and control with Microsoft Azure: Highlights new Azure offerings such as Azure Local, Azure Arc, Microsoft 365 Local, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, Azure Migrate support, Disconnected operations, Azure Arc site manager, and GCP connector (Preview) for managing Google Cloud resources within Azure. (Microsoft Azure Blog)
- Foundry Local: Provides local AI model inference with comprehensive data privacy and does not require an Azure subscription. (foundrylocal.ai)
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Data & AI Workloads
What’s new?
- 🤖 Foundry Local: Run AI models locally with full data privacy, no Azure subscription required.
- 📈 The State of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation overview from McKinsey.
Deep links
- Foundry Local: Run AI models on your device with complete data privacy. No Azure subscription required. (foundrylocal.ai)
- The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation: The latest McKinsey Global Survey provides insights on the adoption and challenges of AI, including the rise of agentic AI and the shifting landscape from pilots to production. (McKinsey)
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Azure Workloads
What’s new?
- 🤖 Inside Microsoft’s AI transformation across the software lifecycle
- 🤖 Deploy a RAG chatbot app using Radius
- 🚀 Radius: a new open-source application platform for the cloud
Deep links
- Inside Microsoft’s AI transformation across the software lifecycle: Learn how AI-powered tools like GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, and Azure are empowering developers to innovate faster and more securely. Gain practical insights and strategies from Microsoft’s journey to empower your own DevOps transformation. (YouTube
- Deploy a RAG chatbot app using Radius: This demo illustrates how Radius simplifies the deployment and governance of intelligent applications across multiple environments, as presented at Microsoft Ignite. (Radius Blog)- Radius: Radius is an open-source project that supports deploying applications across private cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services, with more cloud providers to come. (GitHub)
- Radius: a new open-source application platform for the cloud: Announcement and overview of Radius, a platform to help developers and platform engineers deploy and manage cloud-native apps following best practices by default. (Microsoft Ignite)
No updates detected for Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Security, Dynamics 365, or Industry Solutions workloads in this update batch.
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Microsoft 365 Workloads
What’s new?
✨: Introducing Project Opal—A New Way to Get Task-Based Work Done
Deep links
- Introducing Project Opal: A New Way to Get Task-Based Work Done: Introducing Project Opal in Microsoft 365 Copilot—a new AI-powered capability that executes task-based work within a secure, observable environment you control. (Tech Community)
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