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Throughout this past fiscal year, customers across every industry and segment moved from AI experimentation to deploying AI for real-world business outcomes. They unlocked innovation and created new opportunities for growth. We saw the emergence of Frontier Firms as they moved beyond efficiency gains to focus on human ambition and embed AI at the core… The post Looking back on Microsoft’s FY26: From AI experimentation to Frontier Transformation appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

Editor’s note: Updates with additional details on the model’s crash score. Why security needs a new cyber stack — Introducing Project Perception The physics of cybersecurity are changing. Autonomous systems can now reason, adapt and operate continuously. At the same time, the cost of offense is falling, while the volume, velocity and complexity of what… The post Rethinking security for the age of AI appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

Today, we’re excited to share a long-term commitment to the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Genesis Mission, backed by a $60 million investment designed to accelerate AI for science and the breakthroughs it can deliver for the country. This deepened commitment includes Microsoft’s new Scientific Partnership Advancing Research & Knowledge coordination hub and program office, otherwise… The post Powering America’s Genesis Mission: Microsoft’s commitment to scientific discovery appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

AI workloads are scaling faster than any single infrastructure approach can support — with more models, new agent-driven workloads and surging compute demand driving the need for greater specialization across the stack. To meet this need, Microsoft continues to evolve Azure’s infrastructure, including expanding its AI fleet with AMD’s most advanced AI and high-performance computing… The post Microsoft expands Azure AI and HPC infrastructure with AMD appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

Amy Coleman, EVP and Chief People Officer, shared the following communication with employees today. When I stepped into this role, I promised to communicate more openly with you and share the “why” behind our decisions. Today we are eliminating around 4,800 roles, about 2.1% of our global workforce, as we focus our people, investments, and… The post The latest in our company transformation appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

The pace of AI adoption is moving incredibly fast. Customers have moved well beyond experimentation and understand the importance of adopting AI to transform their business. They are now concentrating on delivering measurable business outcomes and demonstrating a return on their AI investments, while ensuring their intelligence is amplified and their IP is protected. Today… The post Microsoft Frontier Company: AI engineering that amplifies and protects your intelligence appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

As demand for cloud and AI services continues to grow, datacenters are becoming more essential than ever. Communities also want to better understand how this infrastructure affects local resources, particularly water. At Microsoft, water stewardship has been a priority since our first datacenter builds in the early 2000s and remains a core part of our… The post Inside Microsoft’s two-decade push to cut water intensity while scaling for growth appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

Cloud operations are entering a new era as AI-driven and autonomous agents become a larger part of modern software systems. As software becomes increasingly agentic, the challenge is no longer just managing greater scale and complexity. Operators must also contend with systems that evolve faster, act more autonomously and interact across an expanding network of… The post Rethinking cloud operations with agentic observability appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

Today, Microsoft is announcing one of the largest single capacity additions in our history. In Pecos, Texas, we will build a new datacenter campus, expanding our global datacenter capacity by approximately 2 gigawatts (GW) to meet strong and sustained customer demand for AI and cloud services across industries and regions. Beyond the technology, this is… The post Powering the next wave of AI: Expanding capacity with our new datacenter in Pecos appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.

The two most important elements in any AI solution are Intelligence + Trust. I first made this statement in November at our Ignite conference and my conviction is strengthened by every conversation I have with customers. Through my travels, three consistent topics are being raised when considering the adoption of AI solutions: Will AI amplify… The post Achieving success with AI appeared first on The Official Microsoft Blog.