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...
.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...