Here is the Bonus #118 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday — a bit of a bonus edition this week with 7 highlights instead of 5. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better […]
Archive: July 2026
Every voice application I’ve ever built or reviewed has the same problem: latency. The model can sound as natural as you want, but if there’s a full second of dead air between the user finishing a sentence and the assistant responding, the whole thing feels broken. Users notice a pause before they notice voice quality. […]
Every time a new image model ships, my first question isn’t “how pretty are the demo images.” It’s “can I actually put this in a pipeline and get consistent, controllable output.” Most image models are great at one beautiful hero shot and terrible at the boring part — generating twelve consistent product variants, or fixing […]
Published: 2026-07-23 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-23rd-july-2026-117-edition-taswar-bhatti-s6rkf Hope everyone is enjoying some summer break and here is the #117 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. […]
Most prompt engineering content out there assumes you’re writing Python. Jupyter notebooks, pip install, Conda environments — none of it maps to how most of us actually ship software. If you’re a .NET developer who wants to build real AI-powered features — not toy demos — into your applications, I wrote a free ebook for […]
Published: 2026-07-16 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-16th-july-2026-116-edition-taswar-bhatti-nj6df Hope everyone is enjoying some summer break and here is the #116 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. […]
Published: 2026-07-09 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-9th-july-2026-115-edition-taswar-bhatti-gwdjf Hope everyone is enjoying some summer break and here is the #115 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this along to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to subscribe. […]
Demo code located at https://github.com/taswar/KimiFoundryDemo There are a lot of AI model announcements these days. But every now and then one lands that feels immediately practical for real engineering work. Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI showing up in Microsoft Foundry feels like one of those releases. Microsoft and Moonshot AI have made Kimi K2.7 […]
