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Beyond the benchmark: How an adaptive approach drives scientific discovery
09 Sep 2026
For research and development (R&D) organizations, the promise of agentic AI is not a better one-time answer. It is a new way to explore complex scientific and engineering problems: pursuing multip
Enterprise AI transformation relies on the end-to-end platform: Azure was built for this moment
09 Sep 2026
The recognition for Microsoft over the past couple of weeks comes down to models, infrastructure, data, applications, and developer tools working as one system when AI moves into production. The post
GPT-6 Astra: Frontier intelligence for work, now generally available in Microsoft Foundry
09 Sep 2026
GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's newest frontier model, begins rolling out today through the Microsoft Foundry Limited Access Program, with availability expanding to participating customers over the coming days.
How Microsoft’s Physical Security Engineering Team scaled hybrid operations with Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop
09 Sep 2026
Learn how Microsoft used Azure Arc and Azure Virtual Desktop to simplify hybrid security operations, improve visibility, and scale globally. The post How Microsoft’s Physical Security Engineerin
The Economics of Agent Optimization: Context engineering for enterprise AI agents
09 Sep 2026
AI cost optimization goes beyond model selection. Discover how context engineering in Microsoft Foundry helps lower AI costs by improving knowledge retrieval, tool selection, memory, and agent perform
Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS
09 Sep 2026
Azure Multicloud Interconnect helps simplify private connectivity between Microsoft Azure and AWS, enabling organizations to support multicloud and AI workloads with a more streamlined, cloud-native n
Inside Microsoft’s marketing team: Scaling expertise with AI
09 Sep 2026
AI is helping organizations meet high expectations as markets change quickly and technology advances at a rapid pace. The post Inside Microsoft’s marketing team: Scaling expertise with AI appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Managed PostgreSQL vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL: Key benefits and trade-offs
09 Sep 2026
Compare managed PostgreSQL vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL across cost, control, security, resilience, scalability, and operational effort. The post Managed PostgreSQL vs. self-hosted PostgreSQL: Key benef
The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost
09 Sep 2026
Microsoft Foundry gives you four levers that act on every request, before a single line of agent logic changes. The post The Economics of Agent Optimization: Four ways to lower the cost appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane
27 Aug 2026
Organizations need protection that operates in the gap between discovery and remediation. The post The patch window is collapsing: Why security needs a new control plane appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
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You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
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By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
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From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
