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Australian universities are expanding access to ChatGPT and bringing AI into teaching and learning to prepare students for an AI-enabled workforce.
AI must be selected, architected, and managed as a continuous business discipline, not a series of isolated projects. The post Stop treating agents as one-off projects and start running them as a continuous discipline appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog.
Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash brings native 15-second video generation and editing, stronger consistency, and 30% lower pricing.
One underperforming GPU can slow an entire distributed training job. The node may pass basic health checks and show normal utilization, leaving operators to... One underperforming GPU can slow an entire distributed training job. The node may pass basic health checks and show normal utilization, leaving operators to discover the problem only after the workload is running. These issues can appear at any point in a cluster’s lifecycle. A GPU cluster that passes readiness checks at handover changes
Microsoft Security’s November 2026 updates strengthen AI agent security, least privilege, threat protection, and exposure management. The post What’s new in Microsoft Security: November 2026 appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
Every day, more and more people are using coding agents like Google Antigravity and OpenCode to complete software engineering tasks. But those tools need instructions to operate and their output is only as good as the inputs they get. By utilizing agent skills that direct the agents through building, testing, and deploying code, developers have a powerful way to automate their workflows. But most skills are written manually, so it’s hard to know which instructions are effective without assessin
For more than a decade, BigQuery has helped set standards for structured data aggregation, calculating financial sums, counting active users, and computing historical averages at a petabyte scale in seconds. But as modern enterprises become inundated with unstructured data — application logs, customer service transcripts, product imagery, and diagnostic reports — a critical gap has emerged. Historically, relational SQL engines have lacked the native ability to aggregate, synthesize, and extract
Today, Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is generally available on Google Cloud. Built for the everyday videos businesses make in volume — like product videos, virtual try-ons, and ads — this model is fast, cost-effective, and follows your image, video and audio references more closely than before. Business users can create with it in Gemini for business and Google Vids, and developers can build with it via API. Here's what's new: A lower price: $0.07 per second of 720p video, 30% less than Gemini Omni 1.
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