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Markets2026-07-26 · source-backed
The July 23 expanded Microsoft/Databricks partnership runs into the 2030s: Databricks runs its own core business operations on Azure Databricks, expands from Azure Cobalt 100 to Cobalt 200 (up to 50% better performance, memory encryption on by default) for agentic workloads, and Microsoft integrates Genie, Genie Ontology, and the Unity AI Gateway across Entra, OneLake, Power BI, Purview, Foundry, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Teams, and Copilot (Microsoft). Databricks cites 20,000+ organizations and 70% of the Fortune 500. The semantic/ontology layer is being positioned as the thing agents must rent.
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The merge started this week as the structural precondition, bringing chat, AI coding, the Cowork research tool and new AutoPilot background agents acting across Outlook, Teams and OneDrive into one product. The rollout also retired free Deep Research within four days, which re...
Fortune published a deep-dive on May 21 that should make anyone building on Microsoft's AI stack uncomfortable. After spending $13B+ on OpenAI and projecting $190 billion in 2026 capex (more than double 2025), Microsoft Copilot has reached just 20 million paying M365 users out...
Microsoft open-sourced Foundry-Local, and I think it's the most underrated release of the week. One SDK for chat and audio with automatic hardware acceleration (NPU > GPU > CPU), self-contained with no external dependencies, and the API surface is identical to Azure AI Foundry...
In a single three-day window, agent governance went from "nice to have" to standalone product category. Microsoft launched Agent 365 at $15/user/month — a governance/security control plane extending Defender and Entra to non-human entities. OpenAI acquired Promptfoo (used by 2...
In its Q3 FY2026 earnings ($82.9B revenue, +18%), Microsoft disclosed something more important than the revenue number: a structural shift in how software gets sold. The company's AI business crossed $37B annual run rate, up 123% year-over-year. But the real signal is the pric...
ChatGPT Work executes long-running multi-step tasks across Slack, Gmail, Google Drive, CRMs, and internal knowledge bases, producing documents, spreadsheets, and sites instead of chat turns. Altman claims 54% better token efficiency on agentic coding. Then OpenAI confirmed GPT...
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