GPT-Realtime-1.5 and GPT-5.3-Codex Land in Azure AI Foundry: What .NET Engineers Need to Know Right Now
GPT-Realtime-1.5 and GPT-5.3-Codex Land in Azure AI Foundry: What .NET Engineers Need to Know Right Now Published: February 26, 2026 Ecosystem: Azure · Azure OpenAI · .NET TL;DR Starting this week, GPT-Realtime-1.5, GPT-Audio-1.5, and GPT-5.3-Codex are rolling out into Microsoft...
Foundry Local Goes Sovereign: Running Large AI Models Fully Disconnected on Azure (Feb 2026)
Foundry Local Goes Sovereign: Running Large AI Models Fully Disconnected on Azure (Feb 2026) TL;DR: On February 24, 2026, Microsoft announced that its Sovereign Cloud stack — Azure Local, Microsoft 365 Local, and Foundry Local — can now run large,...
Microsoft Agent Framework Hits RC: What .NET Developers Need to Know Right Now
Microsoft Agent Framework Hits RC: What .NET Developers Need to Know Right Now Published: February 24, 2026 Audience: .NET & Azure engineers shipping AI features TL;DR On February 19, 2026, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release...
Microsoft Agent Framework Hits Release Candidate: What .NET Engineers Need to Know Right Now
Microsoft Agent Framework Hits Release Candidate: What .NET Engineers Need to Know Right Now Published: February 23, 2026 TL;DR On February 19, 2026, Microsoft announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and...
.NET & Azure AI Weekly Roundup: Week of Feb 22, 2026 — Agents Go RC, Models Go Bye-Bye, and Your IDE Leveled Up
.NET & Azure AI Weekly Roundup: Week of Feb 22, 2026 — Agents Go RC, Models Go Bye-Bye, and Your IDE Leveled Up TL;DR: The Microsoft Agent Framework hit Release Candidate for .NET and Python this week — it’s the...
Visual Studio 2026's February AI Update Turns Your IDE Into an Agent Debugger
Visual Studio 2026’s February AI Update Turns Your IDE Into an Agent Debugger Published: February 21, 2026 Ecosystem: .NET · Azure · AI Tooling TL;DR The Visual Studio 2026 February update dropped on February 18, 2026, marking what Microsoft calls...
Build and Deploy AI Agents on Azure Databricks Apps in February 2026
Build and Deploy AI Agents on Azure Databricks Apps in February 2026 TL;DR: Azure Databricks now offers new documentation and project templates for building and deploying AI agents on Databricks Apps using popular libraries like LangGraph, PyFunc, and OpenAI Agent...
Microsoft's Maia 200 Brings AI Inference Economics into Reach for .NET Builders
Microsoft’s Maia 200 Brings AI Inference Economics into Reach for .NET Builders TL;DR Microsoft introduced Maia 200, a breakthrough inference accelerator engineered to dramatically improve the economics of AI token generation. Maia 200 is the most efficient inference system Microsoft...
AI Toolkit for VS Code 0.30.0: Agents Are Now First-Class Citizens in .NET Development
AI Toolkit for VS Code 0.30.0: Agents Are Now First-Class Citizens in .NET Development TL;DR: Microsoft’s AI Toolkit v0.30.0 adds a Tool Catalog, Agent Inspector, and first-class evaluation testing , making agentic AI development feel less like experimental plumbing and...
Context Bloat Is Killing Your AI Agents—Here's How Anthropic Just Fixed It
Context Bloat Is Killing Your AI Agents—Here’s How Anthropic Just Fixed It TL;DR Anthropic released MCP Tool Search, a feature that introduces “lazy loading” for AI tools, allowing agents to dynamically fetch tool definitions only when necessary. Instead of loading...