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. Claude Opus 4.8 showing up in Microsoft Foundry feels like one of those releases. Microsoft is positioning Claude Opus 4.8 around coding, agentic workflows, and deeper reasoning for enterprise scenarios, […]
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Published: 2026-05-20 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-21st-may-2026-111-edition-taswar-bhatti-kwige Here is the #111 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. 1. STATE-Bench – Memory-agnostic Benchmark Join Jorge Arteiro, […]
OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 is now generally available (GA) in Microsoft Foundry, and this is one of those releases that matters less for “chat” and more for getting actual work done—end-to-end. The big theme: messy, multi-step requests → completed tasks, with stronger reliability in planning, tool use, UI navigation, and recovery when something breaks mid-flow. If you’re […]
Published: 2026-04-23 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-23th-april-2026-109-edition-taswar-bhatti-1exif Here is the #109 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday. Happy Childrens Day if you are in Turkiye. 👶 I hope this newsletter will help you in your Azure journey and keep you informed. Feel free to forward this alng to anyone who you think may enjoy or better ask them to […]
Published: 2026-04-02 Source: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-highlights-thursday-2nd-april-2026-106-edition-taswar-bhatti-u3pxf Here is the #106 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday to 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. 1. Native Regex in SQL Server 2025 REGEX in Microsoft SQL (SQL […]
