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Introducing the Microsoft Copilot harness in Foundry Agent Service
A model can reason about a task. Completing that task takes more: the right context, tools, execution environment, and controls, and an agent loop that brings t...

What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | September 2026
Explore September's models, Routines, Tool Search, Model Router, and Insights through one two-agent workflow that turns public releases into a Foundry developer...
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Bring Agentic Coding On-Device with Foundry Local
Foundry Local brings agentic coding directly to developer hardware.
What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | October 2026
Plan your Microsoft Ignite November 17-20 viewing, then explore October's Copilot harness preview, GA browser automation and hosted-agent resilience, Decisions API, and SDK updates with chapter-linked Handoff demos.
Announcing Azure AI Speech LLM 09-2026: Broader locale support
Learn how Azure AI Speech LLM 09-2026 improves multilingual language and locale support with improved quality and latency.
Browser automation tool in Microsoft Foundry is now GA
Build agents that automate tasks across public and private websites with managed browsers, native toolbox integration, Live View, and human control.
From extraction to action: Using grounding and confidence to build reliable document workflows
Learn how Azure Content Understanding grounding, field-level confidence, and calibration help teams prioritize human review and build reliable document workflows.
Azure Content Understanding Prebuilt Analyzers: packaging domain knowledge for document AI
Learn how Azure Content Understanding prebuilt analyzers combine domain knowledge with grounding and confidence, and what Advanced Contextualization preview benchmarks show about quality, modeled cost, and latency.
Azure Document Intelligence and Azure Content Understanding: a practical guide
Compare Azure Document Intelligence and Azure Content Understanding across extraction architectures, workload fit, Layout capabilities, deployment options, and practical evaluation criteria.
Why content extraction still matters in the GenAI era
Learn why stronger AI models make trustworthy content extraction more important, how Azure Content Understanding and Azure Document Intelligence serve different needs, and what comes next.
Control where your hosted agent connects with network egress in Foundry Agent Service
Define and attach an outbound policy to a hosted agent in Microsoft Foundry, observe calls in Audit, and verify allowed and denied destinations under Enforced mode.