# Build 2026 Newsroom Inventory

Scan date: 2026-06-05

Source: https://news.microsoft.com/build-2026/

Newsroom modified time at scan: 2026-06-04T17:36:01+00:00

This inventory captures the public "More news and information" section from the Microsoft Build 2026 newsroom. Shortlinks were resolved where possible. It is broader than the AI Builder Atlas source baseline, which intentionally highlights the subset most relevant to agent, model, context, tool, harness, governance, and infrastructure demos.

## More News And Information

| # | Newsroom item | Resolved public URL |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-azure-cobalt-200-vms-deliver-50-performance-improvement-fully-optimized-for-modern-agentic-ai-workloads/ |
| 2 | Azure HorizonDB: Enterprise-ready Postgres, engineered for the AI era | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/azure-horizondb-enterprise-ready-postgres-engineered-for-the-ai-era/4524094 |
| 3 | Announcing Microsoft Web IQ | https://blogs.bing.com/search/June-2026/Announcing-Microsoft-Web-IQ |
| 4 | Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-smarter-agents-faster-with-foundry-iq/ |
| 5 | Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-build-2026-building-agentic-apps-with-microsoft-fabric-and-microsoft-databases/ |
| 6 | GPU Accelerated fabric data warehouse | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-build-2026-building-agentic-apps-with-microsoft-fabric-and-microsoft-databases/ |
| 7 | Microsoft Foundry updates help deploy and run AI agents effectively | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-build-2026/ |
| 8 | Rayfin delivers enterprise-grade app backends | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-fabric/features/rayfin |
| 9 | A developer's guide to model lifecycle management in Microsoft Foundry | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-2026-foundry-models/ |
| 10 | Agentic retrieval and memory toolkits now available for Azure Cosmos DB | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/new-toolkits-for-agent-memories-and-agentic-retrieval-in-azure-cosmos-db/ |
| 11 | Build and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026 | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/agent-service-build2026/ |
| 12 | Simpler, scalable file share management in Azure - now generally available | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureStorageBlog/simpler-scalable-file-share-management-in-azure---now-generally-available/4523035 |
| 13 | Secure, modern access to Azure Files on macOS with Microsoft Entra ID | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureStorageBlog/secure-modern-access-to-azure-files-on-macos-with-ms-entra-id/4524077 |
| 14 | Announcing Confidential Live Migration with Intel TDX in Azure | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureconfidentialcomputingblog/announcing-confidential-live-migration-in-azure/4524558 |
| 15 | Majorana 2 - Microsoft's scalable quantum processor with reliable, long-lasting qubits | https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/insights/blogs/majorana-2-scalable-quantum-processor |
| 16 | Explore Microsoft Discovery | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/discovery |
| 17 | In arXiv: 20 second parity lifetime in an InAs-Pb device | https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03884 |
| 18 | Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-discovery-general-availability-and-microsoft-discovery-app-preview/ |
| 19 | Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/02/introducing-microsoft-scout-your-always-on-personal-agent/ |
| 20 | Introducing Agent Control Specification: Portable runtime governance for AI Agents | https://commandline.microsoft.com/agent-control-specification-runtime-governance/ |
| 21 | Turn specs into evals for any agent with ASSERT | https://commandline.microsoft.com/assert-written-intent-executable-evals/ |
| 22 | Mayo Clinic and Microsoft collaborate to develop a frontier AI model for healthcare | https://news.microsoft.com/source/?p=24971 |
| 23 | Build agents you can trust: A new open trust stack for AI agents on any framework | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-2026-open-trust-stack-ai-agents/ |
| 24 | Build 2026: Securing code, agents and models across the development lifecycle | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/06/02/microsoft-build-2026-securing-code-agents-and-models-across-the-development-lifecycle/ |
| 25 | Five ways we're confusing AI capability and AI reality - and how to bridge the gap | https://commandline.microsoft.com/kevin-scott-build-2026-lectures-on-tap/ |
| 26 | Build, scale and monetize apps and agents with Microsoft Marketplace | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/all-things-azure/build-scale-and-monetize-apps-and-agents-with-microsoft-marketplace/ |
| 27 | Microsoft Build 2026: Empowering our developers to adopt agentic AI at Microsoft | https://www.microsoft.com/insidetrack/blog/microsoft-build-2026:-empowering-our-developers-to-adopt-agentic-ai-at-microsoft/ |
| 28 | Microsoft for Startups introduces a clearer path from AI development to enterprise growth | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups/blog/microsoft-for-startups-introduces-a-clearer-path-from-ai-development-to-enterprise-growth/ |
| 29 | Security Build recap: agentic SLDC and A365 | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/06/02/microsoft-build-2026-securing-code-agents-and-models-across-the-development-lifecycle/ |
| 30 | What's new in Microsoft Foundry \| Build 2026 | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/whats-new-in-microsoft-foundry-build-2026/ |
| 31 | Foundry IQ: Enterprise AI security updates | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-new-governance-and-enterprise-ai-security-capabilities/4524825 |
| 32 | Foundry IQ: Data pipeline updates and smarter content extraction | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/improved-data-processing-features-in-foundry-iq-richer-content-extraction-and-da/4524841 |
| 33 | Foundry IQ: Outperforming agentic RAG benchmarks with up to 20% better answers | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/improve-recall-by-up-to-54-using-knowledge-bases/4524852 |
| 34 | GHCP modernization GA | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AppsonAzureBlog/closing-the-ai-readiness-gap-with-agentic-modernization/4524011 |
| 35 | Foundry IQ: new governance and enterprise AI security capabilities | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-foundry-blog/foundry-iq-new-governance-and-enterprise-ai-security-capabilities/4524825 |
| 36 | Grounding at scale: Engineering the retrieval system for the agentic web | https://commandline.microsoft.com/grounding-system-agentic-web-engineering-retrieval/ |
| 37 | Build 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/build-2026-from-observability-to-roi-for-ai-agents-on-any-framework/ |
| 38 | Composing a new platform for agent-first devices | https://commandline.microsoft.com/project-solara-build-2026/ |
| 39 | Building the next generation of devices for developers: Surface RTX Spark Dev Box | https://blogs.windows.com/devices/?p=263819 |
| 40 | Windows 365 extends support for developers | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/made-for-developers-and-agents-windows-365-at-build-2026/4519041 |
| 41 | Windows platform security for AI agents | https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/?p=57808 |
| 42 | Announcing the new Work IQ APIs | https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/02/announcing-the-new-work-iq-apis/ |
| 43 | The new GitHub app for agentic development | https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-app-the-agent-native-desktop-experience/?utm_source=live-blog-copilot-app-desktop-blog-cta&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=msbuild-2026 |
| 44 | Frontier Tuning: Teaching AI to work the way you do | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/frontier-tuning-teaching-ai-to-work-the-way-you-do/ |
| 45 | Azure Functions at Build 2026 update | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/azure-functions-at-build-2026-update/4524075 |
| 46 | Announcing new security, maintenance and analytics features for PostgreSQL at Microsoft Build 2026 | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/announcing-new-security-maintenance-and-analytics-features-for-postgresql-at-mic/4524559 |
| 47 | Closing the gap between AI ambition and AI-readiness with agentic modernization | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AppsonAzureBlog/closing-the-ai-readiness-gap-with-agentic-modernization/4524011 |
| 48 | Build collaborative agents where work happens | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/build-collaborative-agents-where-work-happens/ |
| 49 | Work IQ: Production-ready intelligence for every agent | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/work-iq-production-ready-intelligence-for-every-agent/ |
| 50 | Unlocking the possibilities of physical AI with Foundry Local and Azure Local | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurearcblog/embed-intelligence-into-physical-systems-with-smaller-form-factor-infrastructure/4524876 |
| 51 | Announcing Anyscale on Azure public preview: Powered by Ray on AKS | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/announcing-anyscale-on-azure-public-preview-powered-by-ray-on-aks/4523704 |
| 52 | Announcing Confidential Live Migration in Azure | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureconfidentialcomputingblog/announcing-confidential-live-migration-in-azure/4524558 |
| 53 | Preview of the analytics feature for Azure Confidential Clean Rooms | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureconfidentialcomputingblog/preview-of-azure-confidential-clean-rooms-for-secure-multiparty-data-collaborati/4286926 |
| 54 | Announcing preview of Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based Virtual Machines | https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-azure-cobalt-200-vms-deliver-50-performance-improvement-fully-optimized-for-modern-agentic-ai-workloads/ |
| 55 | Announcing preview of new Azure Lasv5 and Laosv5 VMs based on the AMD EPYC Turin processor | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurecompute/announcing-preview-of-new-azure-lasv5-and-laosv5-vms-based-on-the-amd-epyc%E2%84%A2-%E2%80%98tur/4522407 |
| 56 | What's new in Azure App Service at #MSBuild 2026 | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/azure/blog/appsonazureblog |
| 57 | Azure Backup support for Cosmos DB in public preview | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azuregovernanceandmanagementblog/protect-azure-cosmos-db-with-vaulted-backups-using-azure-backup-preview/4522714 |
| 58 | What's new in Azure Container Apps at Build 2026 | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/whats-new-in-azure-container-apps-at-build26/4524184 |
| 59 | Introducing Azure Container Apps Sandboxes: Secure infrastructure for agentic workloads | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/appsonazureblog/introducing-azure-container-apps-sandboxes-secure-infrastructure-for-agentic-wor/4524131 |
| 60 | Announcing Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager Public Preview | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/reliability-and-resiliency-in-azure/announcing-azure-infrastructure-resiliency-manager-public-preview/4523710?previewMessage=true |
| 61 | Semantic reranking in Azure Cosmos DB now in public preview | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cosmosdb/announcing-the-public-preview-of-semantic-reranker-in-azure-cosmos-db-for-nosql/ |
| 62 | What's new in AKS at Microsoft Build 2026 | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/ |
| 63 | Build, deploy and govern sovereign AI with Foundry Local on Azure Local. | https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/accelerate-edge-ai-development-with-foundry-local/ |
| 64 | Azure API Management at Build 2026 update | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/integrationsonazureblog/whats-new-in-azure-api-management-at-microsoft-build-2026/4524683 |
| 65 | Azure Logic Apps at Build 2026 update | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/integrationsonazureblog/whats-new-in-azure-logic-apps-at-microsoft-build-2026/4524685 |
| 66 | Introducing Azure Container Linux | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceblog/introducing-azure-container-linux-acl/4523411 |
| 67 | Announcing Azure Linux 4.0: Purpose-built for Azure, now in public preview | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceblog/announcing-azure-linux-4-0-purpose-built-for-azure-now-in-public-preview/4524267 |

## Retrieval Notes

- The newsroom still reports the same modified timestamp as the previous pass, so this is a completeness retrieval rather than a newer timestamp delta.
- Items 56 and 62 resolved to broad Tech Community landing pages through their shortlinks at scan time. Recheck those links before using them as implementation references.
- Duplicate or overlapping newsroom entries are preserved when Microsoft listed them separately, for example Cobalt 200 and the security recap.