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Azure Functions ends support for the in-process .NET model on 10 November, the same day as .NET 8, .NET 9 and PowerShell 7.4. Microsoft points to .NET 10.
Scott Guthrie says Azure Maia 300, Microsoft's third in-house inference chip, begins production deployments in 2027 and is meant to be the company's main inference system. The efficiency figures are Microsoft's.
The Register reports a Norwegian startup billed about $17,600 for Claude in Microsoft Foundry after assuming its startup credits applied. Each vendor's support pointed it to the other for a refund.
ClickHouse's 5 October post calls executable UDFs generally available on AWS, GCP, and Azure, with a Native runtime beside Python 3.11. Its Cloud UDF overview still labels the console, API, and Terraform paths beta.
ClickHouse (Sep 29, 2026): Fabric workload in public preview; OneLake Iceberg read GA via Table APIs; Iceberg write in public preview with credential vending; Azure BYOC on the Microsoft Marketplace.
Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5.5 (model ID claude-sonnet-5-5): $2/$10 input/output, $0.20 cache reads, $2.50 cache writes. Anthropic claims 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5, up to 30% less per task, Terminal-Bench 70.6% / CursorBench 55.5%. Haiku 5.5 coming weeks.
