Foundry Agent Service GA & Open Agentic Stack

Agent Service GA with governance toolkit, A2A protocol, MAI-Thinking-1 preview, Meta renting models via Foundry, Dataverse plugin reference, Agent ITOps, and new AI governance runtime loop formalizing policy/control/observability/audit. New: Azure SRE Agent with no always-on charges reduces cost barriers for agentic IT operations, with a practical trial offer from Microsoft for developers. New: Microsoft expands Middle East AI footprint through HUMAIN partnership, bringing ALLAM Arabic models to Foundry and Copilot, deepening regional model diversity.