We're back at @NVIDIAGTC 2026! 4 sessions. Physical AI. GRID. Fastest path to useful robots! - @saihv leading a hands-on training lab on scaling robotic AI from prototype to production ( - Dinesh Narayanan on a theatre session on Physical AI and autonomous operations with @Accenture's Christian Souche and @Microsoft Azure's Felice Miller at the Microsoft booth on deploying agentic AI in real-world robotics. - We will also showcase the fastest path to useful robots with #GRID# at Microsoft Demo Kiosk! Will we see you there? #NVIDIAGTC# #Accenture# #MicrosoftAzure#

Building AI on @Microsoft Azure? Make sure your infrastructure can keep up. 🏁 Join Kerim Satirli for a technical session on building secure, scalable foundations for AI workloads with Azure. Learn how infrastructure as code and automated security practices can help platform teams standardize deployments, enforce governance, and reduce operational complexity. What you'll learn: • Key considerations for AI-ready infrastructure on Azure • How infrastructure as code simplifies provisioning and operations • Approaches for consistent security and governance across environments • Best practices for secrets, access, and compliance management • Ways to streamline operations and support AI growth at scale ✨ Register now:

Excited to share that micro1 is now live on Microsoft Marketplace and officially Azure IP Co-Sell eligible. This means enterprises can now transact with micro1's Cortex solution through their existing @Microsoft relationship, with Microsoft handling the transaction and billing through Azure Marketplace. This helps streamline the procurement process for large organizations. Additionally, eligible purchases can decrement a customer's Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment (MACC), enabling enterprises to use committed Azure spend to transact with micro1. At micro1, we believe enterprises must own their intelligence. As companies deploy more AI agents into real workflows, they need visibility into how those agents actually perform, where they fail, and how to improve them over time. micro1 Cortex provides enterprises with an evaluation stack that leverages expert human judgment to assess AI agents in real business workflows, helping teams identify why agents fail and monitor reliability as their models, prompts, and environments evolve. Thank you to the @msft4startups and @M12vc teams for the continued partnership.

📢 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡: Marvell, Microsoft and Utimaco Launch Azure Payment HSM v2 for Cloud Payment Security - $MSFT $MRVL 👉 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀: ➤ 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗹, 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁 and 𝗨𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗼 launch 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝗦𝗠 𝘃𝟮. ➤ Platform combines 𝗟𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 HSMs, 𝗔𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮 software and Microsoft Azure. ➤ Service targets 𝗯𝗮𝗻𝗸𝘀, payment processors and financial institutions. ➤ Platform protects transactions, payment assets and 𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗸𝗲𝘆 sovereignty. ➤ Customers can meet 𝗣𝗖𝗜 security and compliance requirements. ➤ Service eliminates managing dedicated physical 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗛𝗦𝗠 infrastructure. ➤ Marvell HSMs provide cloud-scale throughput and hardware-based 𝗸𝗲𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. ➤ Azure provides a fully managed, elastically scalable 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 service. ➤ Public preview begins 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁. 𝟭𝟳, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 in Western U.S. and Western Europe. 👉 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀: ➤ Moves critical 𝗽𝗮𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 infrastructure toward fully managed cloud services. ➤ Reduces costs and complexity associated with customer-managed physical HSM infrastructure. ➤ Helps financial institutions scale payment security while maintaining 𝗣𝗖𝗜 compliance. ➤ Expands Marvell's cloud infrastructure exposure into regulated 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 workloads. 👉 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗨𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘆, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Multimarket Business Group, Marvell: “Marvell, Microsoft and Utimaco have partnered to address the growing demand for cloud-scale payment services,” said Cary Ussery, senior vice president and general manager, Multimarket Business Group, at Marvell. “Combining best-in-class hardware, software and services to meet the performance, security and compliance demands of modern payment networks, the new solution will allow customers to scale their security capabilities without the cost and hassle of managing traditional dedicated payment infrastructure.” 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗺𝘆𝗮 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗻, Vice President of Cloud Security Engineering, Microsoft: “By offering this new solution as a service on Azure, we’re removing the operational burden of managing payment specific HSMs so our customers can focus on innovation,” said Soumya Subramanian, vice president of Cloud Security Engineering at Microsoft. 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝗲𝗿𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗵, CEO of Utimaco: “We are proud to position our globally successful Atalla Payments Module in Microsoft’s multi-vendor HSM infrastructure provided by Marvell,” said Stefan Auerbach, CEO of Utimaco. “This is an industry first and provides excellent performance and maximum security to Microsoft and its payment customers.”

$META is spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on Microsoft Azure AI services, making it one of Microsoft’s largest AI customers. Meta is reportedly consuming trillions of tokens weekly through Azure Foundry, including using OpenAI models to evaluate its own AI outputs. At the same time, Meta is building its own multi-model API service that could eventually compete with Foundry and reduce its reliance on Microsoft. Source: Bloomberg

The latest #IntelXeon# 6-based VMs are now available on @Microsoft Azure, bringing the #cloud# performance and features you need: higher general compute performance, larger VM sizes, better security, and more. Future-proof your cloud-scale workloads with Intel. Learn how:

ANTHROPIC SAYS CLAUDE FABLE 5.1 IS NOW AVAILABLE ON AWS, GOOGLE CLOUD AND MICROSOFT AZURE, ADDING THAT IT HAS NOT FOUND EVIDENCE OF A CRITICAL-SEVERITY JAILBREAK FOR THE SAFEGUARDS OF MYTHOS 5.1 AND FABLE 5.1

The update of Anthropic when it's pacing the frontier: > Secured up to 5 GW of AI compute, with $100B+ committed to AWS technologies over 10 years. >Secured ~5 GW of next-generation TPU capacity with Broadcom and Google. > 300+ MW of compute powered by 220,000+ NVIDIA GPUs with SpaceX > $30B of Microsoft Azure compute capacity with Nvidia Just some number.

Exclusive: Six senior AWS engineers rebuilt Bedrock after capacity limits and errors frustrated customers. The overhaul is now helping AWS win AI spending from Microsoft Azure. Read more:

SEGA has cancelled its “Super Game” initiative, first announced in 2021. The ambitious plan called for new AAA live-service online titles backed by an $800 million budget and a Microsoft Azure partnership. >The project was officially dropped with no additional costs incurred. >SEGA is shifting away from free-to-play live-service games toward premium full games and revivals of established IPs. >Several previously announced remakes and updates remain on track, including Jet Set Radio, Crazy Taxi, Persona 4 Revival, Stranger Than Heaven, and Total War: Medieval III.