The Azure OpenAI Responses API Is the Stateful Agent Surface .NET Developers Have Been Waiting For
The Azure OpenAI Responses API Is the Stateful Agent Surface .NET Developers Have Been Waiting For Published: March 4, 2026 · Reading time: ~7 min TL;DR The Azure OpenAI Responses API is a new stateful API that brings together the...
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 March 3, 2026 · ~800 words TL;DR Microsoft has announced that the Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. This...
GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-Realtime-1.5, and GPT-Audio-1.5 Just Landed in Azure AI Foundry — Here's What .NET Engineers Need to Know
GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-Realtime-1.5, and GPT-Audio-1.5 Just Landed in Azure AI Foundry — Here’s What .NET Engineers Need to Know TL;DR: Three new OpenAI models rolled out in Microsoft Foundry this week. GPT-5.3-Codex unifies frontier coding and reasoning into one model purpose-built...
Azure & AI Weekly Roundup: New Voice Models, Foundry SDK Shakeups, MCP Everywhere, and Deprecation Clocks Ticking (Week of March 1, 2026)
Azure & AI Weekly Roundup: New Voice Models, Foundry SDK Shakeups, MCP Everywhere, and Deprecation Clocks Ticking (Week of March 1, 2026) Your Sunday morning read — grab a coffee, this one has deadlines in it. TL;DR GPT-Realtime-1.5 & GPT-Audio-1.5...
`azd` February 2026: The CLI That Finally Knows When an AI Is Driving
azd February 2026: The CLI That Finally Knows When an AI Is Driving **Published: February 28, 2026 Audience: .NET & Azure engineers shipping AI workloads** TL;DR The Azure Developer CLI (azd) February 2026 drop (versions 1.23.3–1.23.6) shipped a quietly important...
Azure SDK February 2026 Ships: Native DI, Content Understanding, and `azd` That Knows When an AI Is Driving
Azure SDK February 2026 Ships: Native DI, Content Understanding, and azd That Knows When an AI Is Driving Published: February 27, 2026 Ecosystem: .NET · Azure · AI TL;DR The Azure SDK February 2026 release (dropped yesterday) is a quiet-but-consequential...
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...