Sovereign AI on Azure: what the Microsoft-Mistral deal means
Microsoft and Mistral announced an expanded partnership on 21 July 2026: Mistral Medium 3.5 and OCR 4 arrive in Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio, deployable from Azure cloud to customer-controlled and fully air-gapped Azure Local environments, backed by a multibillion-dollar European GPU buildout. We compare the three deployment modes and what each one solves for Swedish public sector and regulated industries.
Claude Sonnet 5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot: EU tenant guide
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 started rolling out in Microsoft 365 Copilot on 2 July 2026, beginning with Copilot Cowork and Copilot in PowerPoint, and for EU tenants it is a governance decision rather than a feature update. The Anthropic subprocessor arrangement changed in May 2026, the models run outside the EU Data Boundary, and Swedish admins now face concrete choices about tenant settings, pilot scoping and DPIA updates.
Computer-using agents go GA in Copilot Studio: cost vs RPA
Microsoft's 26 May Copilot Studio update takes computer-using agents to general availability, ships a redesigned workflows designer with agent nodes, and moves A2A communication and remote MCP support to GA. CUA runs bill at 5 credits per agent action, which makes adaptive UI agents cheaper than classic RPA at modest volumes and costlier at high, steady ones.
Microsoft Foundry: The Enterprise Agent Factory - Microsoft Ignite 2025
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