Following backlash in a Hacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models that could then be used to create AI ...

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As agent-based AI systems grow more sophisticated, developers are moving well beyond basic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) into a new era of autonomous, tool-integrated, and multi-agent ...

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Microsoft used Ignite 2025 to push Azure Cosmos DB further into AI search and agentic workflows, highlighting new capabilities aimed at developers building retrieval-heavy applications and multi-agent ...

At today’s Ignite 2025 event, Microsoft announced one of the biggest Azure data updates in years. The company has announced the general availability of SQL Server 2025. That has come after a long ...

Microsoft used its annual conference to roll out sweeping updates across Managed Instance, Cosmos DB, Fabric, PostgreSQL and SQL Server tooling, signaling broad investments in performance, scalability ...

With the official release of Microsoft's latest database offering, let's see what was improved and what still needs some work. Today, at Ignite, Microsoft announced the general availability of SQL ...

Organizations are under constant pressure to modernize their estate. Legacy infrastructure, manual processes, and increasing data volumes in silos make it harder to deliver the performance, security, ...

Big changes to the license used by the popular open source key/value store Redis prompted a fork, with the launch of Valkey. In the time since that fork in March 2024, the two projects have diverged.