Windows XXX: First introduced as "Windows Explorer" back in the Windows 95 era, File Explorer has been an integral part of the PC operating system for decades. File Explorer now serves double duty as ...

Abstract: This paper presents a novel adaptive indexing framework designed to optimize query performance in distributed systems using Azure Data Explorer (ADX). As organizations increasingly rely on ...

Measuring AI progress has usually meant testing scientific knowledge or logical reasoning — but while the major benchmarks still focus on left-brain logic skills, there’s been a quiet push within AI ...

Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI. Available through Microsoft’s Azure AI ...

One of the biggest issues with large language models (LLMs) is working with your own data. They may have been trained on terabytes of text from across the internet, but that only provides them with a ...

Power Query Copilot is redefining how you manage and analyze data in Excel. By using AI-driven automation, this innovative tool simplifies tasks such as importing, synchronizing, and analyzing data ...

More powerful and pervasive large language models are creating a new cybersecurity challenge for companies. The risks posed by LLMs, a form of generative artificial intelligence that communicates ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Large language models (LLMs) like the OpenAI models used by Azure are general-purpose tools for building many different types of generative AI-powered applications, from chatbots to agent-powered ...

Microsoft Corp. has developed a small language model that can solve certain math problems better than algorithms several times its size. The company revealed the model, Phi-4, on Thursday. The ...