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End-to-end encrypted ML inference with Amazon SageMaker AI and FHE
This blog has previously discussed FHE for ML inference in the post Enable fully homomorphic encryption with Amazon SageMaker endpoints for secure, real-time inferencing, but this post goes a little further. That previous post showed how to implement FHE-based inference 'from scratch' by hand-crafting a linear-regression algorithm using a low-level library called SEAL. Instead, this post shows a much more flexible and higher-level approach based on concrete-ml, a high-level library built specifically for FHE-based inference. It supports several common types of models 'out of the box' and is even API compatible with the well-known ML library scikit-learn.
How courts are coping with a flood of AI-generated lawsuits
Most days in her chambers, Judge Maritza Braswell, a federal magistrate judge in Colorado, sifts through stacks of documents written by people without a lawyer. Many of them can’t afford to hire a lawyer, and others have cases too weak or too small to interest one. She reads each one carefully, mindful of how daunting…
[AINews] Reve 2 and Ideogram 4: Layouts in Imagegen
a quiet day.
⚡️Satya Nadella: No Priors x Latent Space Crossover Special at Microsoft Build
The legendary Microsoft CEO makes his first Latent Space appearance!
[AINews] Microsoft Build: MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI Family models
Microsoft Build recap, and new MAI model technical details
Microsoft unveils AI models in push for independence from OpenAI
Microsoft unveiled its own cutting-edge artificial intelligence models in San Francisco on Tuesday, a crucial step toward reducing its dependence on OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.
AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will.
We are building a comprehensive agent platform: one that supports many models, is open, and gives you flexibility at every layer of the stack. The post AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will. appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions
Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.
Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview
At Microsoft Build, we are announcing that Microsoft Discovery is now generally available for all organizations, providing a comprehensive platform for building and governing agentic AI workflows. The post Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant
Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.
Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior
The specification lets developer, compliance and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.
Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases
Microsoft Build 2026 highlights advancements in app development with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases, emphasizing a unified data and AI platform for scalable, agentic applications. The post Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
GitHub's plan for Agents — Kyle Daigle, GitHub
GitHub pioneered the modern AI coding era with Copilot, and the resulting explosion in agentic coding has led to notable strains on the most popular developer platform in the world. Here's the plan.
New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads
We are announcing the early access preview for Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based Virtual Machines (VMs), designed for Linux-based agentic AI workloads. The post New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval
Build smarter agents with Microsoft Foundry IQ, unifying enterprise and external data into a secure, scalable knowledge layer for faster, higher-quality answers. The post Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry
Microsoft Foundry helps teams move beyond model access to operate AI at scale—selecting, evaluating, optimizing, and governing models across the full lifecycle. The post A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .
[AINews] NVIDIA Cosmos 3, Nemotron 3 Ultra, and RTX Spark
Jensen scores a huge win.
Building a secure auth code flow setup using AgentCore Gateway with MCP clients
This post demonstrates how to implement Open Authorization (OAuth) Code flow as an inbound authorization mechanism for MCP servers hosted on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway. By the end of this guide, you will have a production-ready setup where each AI assistant request is authenticated with a valid user identity token issued from your organization’s identity provider.
Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP
If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.
‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs
The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end.
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