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Claude on Azure is GA: Foundry deployment and CCU costs

Claude Opus 4.8 and Claude Haiku 4.5 are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry, hosted on Azure with Entra ID authentication, prompt caching, extended thinking and billing through Claude Consumption Units on your existing Azure invoice. Deployment steps, the CCU cost model compared with Azure OpenAI, and the data-residency caveats Swedish and EU teams should assess before production use.

June 30, 2026260 visningarAI & Cloud Infrastructure

Computer use agents for legacy UIs: Gemini Flash vs Azure

Google made computer use a native tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash on 24 June 2026, putting vision-based UI agents in its low-cost tier for browser, mobile and desktop automation. A comparison with Azure AI Foundry's Computer Use and Browser Automation previews, with a decision framework for legacy-UI automation and the GDPR implications of shipping screenshots to a model endpoint.

June 25, 2026133 visningarAI & Machine Learning

Copilot Cowork is GA: a rollout and cost-control playbook

Microsoft made Copilot Cowork generally available worldwide on 16 June 2026, giving every Microsoft 365 Copilot tenant an agentic system that plans and delivers multi-step work, billed through Copilot Credits at 0.01 dollars each with no usage bundled into the license. Swedish IT teams now need spending limits, a DPIA update for the Anthropic-by-default model lineup, and a clear answer on when Cowork beats building a Foundry agent.

June 19, 2026134 visningarAI & Machine Learning

AI Act deadlines moved: what still lands August 2, 2026

On 16 June 2026 the European Parliament approved the Digital Omnibus amendments 423-57, moving Annex III high-risk AI Act obligations to 2 December 2027 and product-embedded obligations to 2 August 2028. Article 50 transparency duties and the Commission's GPAI enforcement powers were not delayed, which leaves Swedish enterprises six weeks to ship chatbot disclosure, content marking and a documented GPAI position before 2 August 2026.

June 17, 2026166 visningarSecurity & Compliance

Who will knock on your door about AI in Sweden? IMY, mostly

On 15 June 2026 IMY confirmed its role as market surveillance authority for the EU AI Act, with responsibility covering AI systems in areas such as law enforcement and credit assessment, alongside PTS and Finansinspektionen. For Swedish enterprises this puts GDPR and AI Act supervision under one regulator, and IMY's sandbox role offers a way to get data protection guidance before enforcement reaches full strength in 2027.

June 15, 2026180 visningarSecurity & Compliance

CADA explained for Azure customers: EU cloud sovereignty

On 3 June 2026 the European Commission proposed the Cloud and AI Development Act, a regulation that introduces four Union assurance levels for cloud sovereignty and aims to at least triple EU data centre capacity within five to seven years. For Swedish public-sector and regulated teams on Azure, the framework will decide which workloads can stay on a US hyperscaler and which need an EU-controlled alternative, so the classification work should start now.

June 10, 2026113 visningarSecurity & Compliance

Azure HorizonDB vs PostgreSQL pgvector vs AI Search for RAG

Azure HorizonDB reached public preview at Build 2026: a PostgreSQL-compatible, scale-out engine with vector search built in, up to 128 TB of storage and Sweden Central among the five launch regions. For RAG embeddings on Azure the choice now runs three ways, decided by where the source data lives, how much retrieval quality matters and how close you are to Flexible Server's vertical-scaling ceiling.

June 8, 2026145 visningarAzure & Cloud

Running five coding agents at once in the GitHub Copilot app

GitHub’s new Copilot desktop app runs multiple coding agents in parallel, each session isolated in its own git worktree, and is already included in Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business and Enterprise subscriptions. Getting value from it depends less on prompting than on task selection, worktree hygiene, supervision cadence and engineered review capacity, because five agents can open pull requests faster than one reviewer can read them.

June 5, 2026181 visningarAI & Machine Learning

Build 2026 Foundry agents: what Azure teams can ship now

Microsoft Build 2026 turned Foundry into a full production-agent stack: Foundry IQ for unified retrieval, Toolboxes for managed tool access, agent memory, Voice Live and the experimental Scout Autopilot. Foundry IQ knowledge bases and Voice Live are generally available now, Toolboxes and memory sit in public preview, and Scout remains experimental, which sets the build, pilot and watch lanes for an Azure-first EU team.

June 3, 2026146 visningarAI & Cloud Infrastructure

Sweden's cloud policy: digital sovereignty for Azure teams

Sweden's first national cloud policy (Fi2026/01233) bans no provider but makes jurisdictional exposure, portability and exit capability the questions every public-sector cloud decision must now answer in writing. For Azure estates, a defensible position means classified workloads, enforced Swedish and EU residency, customer-managed keys for sensitive data and a tested export path.

June 1, 2026143 visningarSecurity & Compliance

Claude Opus 4.8: the effort dial, fast mode and token math

Claude Opus 4.8 arrives at unchanged pricing with an effort control on all plans, a fast mode at a third of the previous fast-inference cost, and a Messages API change that lets system entries sit inside the messages array so mid-task instruction updates no longer invalidate the prompt cache. Worked token math shows cache hit rate remains the biggest cost lever, and a four-question framework matches effort, speed and fan-out to each workload.

May 29, 2026137 visningarAI & Machine Learning

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.

May 27, 2026134 visningarAI & Machine Learning