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Microsoft Cost Management updates—August 2024

Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where it’s being spent, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Microsoft Cost Management comes in.  We’re always looking […]

BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners, Microsoft and MGX launch new AI partnership to invest in data centers and supporting power infrastructure

$100 billion investment potential will enhance American competitiveness in AI while meeting the growing need for energy infrastructure to power economic growth NEW YORK, REDMOND, WA, AND ABU DHABI — September 17, 2024 – The drive to develop more powerful AI capabilities will require significant infrastructure investment to support it. Today, BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners […]

Introducing o1: OpenAI’s new reasoning model series for developers and enterprises on Azure

Innovate with AI—get access to the new models in Azure AI Studio We are excited to add OpenAI’s newest models o1-preview and o1-mini to Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Studio, and GitHub Models. The o1 series enables complex coding, math reasoning, brainstorming, and comparative analysis capabilities, setting a new benchmark for AI-powered solutions.  Azure […]

Advanced Container Networking Services: Enhancing security and observability in AKS

Microsoft’s Azure Container Networking team is excited to announce new enhancements to Advanced Container Networking Services. Following the success of advanced network observability, which provides deep insights into network traffic within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters, we’re introducing fully qualified domain name (FQDN) filtering as a new security feature. What is Advanced Container Networking Services? […]

Microsoft and Oracle enhance Oracle Database@Azure with data and AI integration 

This blog is co-authored by Kambiz Aghili, Vice President, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Multicloud, Oracle. One year ago, Microsoft and Oracle built upon our multi-year partnership by announcing a first of its kind solution—Oracle Database@Azure—to offer Oracle Database services running on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) inside Microsoft Azure datacenters. This gives customers the ability to run or […]

Another important step in advancing responsible AI to serve the world

REDMOND, Wash., and ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Sept. 17, 2024 — As Microsoft Corp. and G42 continue to advance our collaboration, we are sharing two significant initiatives to help ensure that AI is used responsibly and serves the world. This work builds on the partnership we jointly announced earlier this year and marks […]

Microsoft announces quarterly dividend increase and new share repurchase program

Annual shareholders meeting set for Dec. 10, 2024 REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 16, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced that its board of directors declared a quarterly dividend of $0.83 per share, reflecting an 8 cent or 10% increase over the previous quarter’s dividend. The dividend is payable Dec. 12, 2024, to shareholders of […]

With Web + Work + Pages, you can now ideate with AI and collaborate with other people. It’s just magical. You can learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gwC7KSpS

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As AI becomes more capable and agentic, models themselves become more of a commodity, and all value gets created by how you steer, ground, and finetune these models with your business data and workflow — and how they compose with the UI layer of human to AI to human interaction. That’s why today we are announcing wave two of Microsoft 365 Copilot.

The post As AI becomes more capable and agentic, models themselves become more of a commodity, and all value gets created by how you steer, ground, and finetune these models with your business data and workflow — and how they compose with the UI layer of human to AI to human interaction. That’s why today […]