US tech giants warn Europe that ditching US tech giants could cost €115B
Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over cloud sovereignty plans
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Amazon, Google, Meta among members of lobby group funding dire warnings over cloud sovereignty plans
If your Wi-Fi drops while uploading a massive 20GB video, YouTube doesn't force you to restart from zero. While basic network protocols like TCP retransmit lost packets during an active stream, a total disconnect wipes that connection memory completely.
Microsoft Discovery coordinates AI agents that help scientists narrow a huge research space down to the most promising candidates. Ali Zaman, Product Manager at Microsoft, explains. From our full conversation on building a better battery. Watch that episode here: https://youtu.be/w-csec1OUgM
Microsoft Discovery coordinates specialized AI agents that analyze research evidence, propose candidate materials, run scientific tools, and validate the results, while the scientist sets the goals and makes the key calls.
What happens when the cloud isn’t always an option? This week, The Upload covers SQL Server on Azure Local, new Azure VM lifecycle guidance, and Aspire 13.6 updates that make distributed app debugging easier.
The big story out of the Ukraine War for 2026 has been Ukraine’s ability to strike oil infrastructure deep inside Russia. These are new capabilities that stem from the maturing of specialist divisions in the Ukrainian military like its 1st Separate Center of Unmanned Systems.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced an open-source development stack to help companies build and...
As the AI startup boom progresses, investors appear to be leaving few niches unfunded. That was apparent in this week’s lineup of large funding rounds, which featured AI infrastructure providers, a foundational model developer, a content protection platform for the AI age, and other AI-focused…
Discover the Quantum Development Kit for Chemistry - Microsoft Quantum's open-source library designed to bridge domain researchers and quantum algorithm developers.
The full-stack AI cloud market is about more than access to graphics processing units: it also encompasses the tools needed to improve models and agents in production. Providers are seeking to distinguish themselves through the tooling, partners and expertise they combine with hardware.
AI agent costs grow faster than the work itself, and caching is how you bring them back down. Gareth Bland, Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft, explains. From our full conversation on TokenOps (https://youtu.be/B4yovi_znxE). #AIAgents #TokenOps
https://aka.ms/foundry-portal https://aka.ms/InsideMicrosoftFoundryPlaylist Your agent took too long to answer, or it answered with confidence and got it wrong. Was it the model, a tool, or the instructions? Without traces, you're guessing.
Fresh off a $2B funding round, London-based Nscale has expanded its upcoming engineering hub at The Eight tower to 46,000 square feet—doubling its original lease before the office even opens in 2027.
Learn all about what's new after the conference! ✅ Chapters: 0:00 Intro and background on SQLCon/FabCon in Barcelona 2026 1:04 Hybrid and migration updates 3:12 Database Hub updates 3:40 Hyperscale updates 4:30 SQL DB in Fabric updates 6:00 Tools, agents, developer updates 8:15 Across the…
AI agent costs don't grow in step with the work. As an agent takes more turns, context piles up and uncached input costs rise on a quadratic curve: in Gareth Bland's example, an agent that takes four times as many turns costs sixteen times as much.
Redmond explains how VMs die, but not when you can expect that to happen
Demand for new data centers, power plants and highways is fueling a construction boom, even as the industry wrestles with declining productivity and a shortage of skilled machine operators. Physical AI, which lets machines perceive their surroundings and act on them, is emerging as one answer.
Welcome to the next MVP Unplugged, where Microsoft MVPs share real-world projects and insights from the field! In this episode, host Justin Garrett sits down with Microsoft MVP Mahmoud A.
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