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ServiceNow Now Assist agents vulnerable by default settings

🔒 AppOmni disclosed a second-order prompt injection that abuses ServiceNow's Now Assist agent discovery and agent-to-agent collaboration to perform unauthorized actions. A benign agent parsing attacker-crafted prompts can recruit other agents to read or modify records, exfiltrate data, or escalate privileges — all enabled by default configuration choices. AppOmni recommends supervised execution, disabling autonomous overrides, agent segmentation, and active monitoring to reduce risk.

Five Generative AI Security Threats and Defensive Steps

🔒 Microsoft summarizes the top generative AI security risks and mitigation strategies in a new e-book, highlighting threats such as prompt injection, data poisoning, jailbreaks, and adaptive evasion. The post underscores cloud vulnerabilities, large-scale data exposure, and unpredictable model behavior that create new attack surfaces. It recommends unified defenses—such as CNAPP approaches—and presents Microsoft Defender for Cloud as an example that combines posture management with runtime detection to protect AI workloads.

Migration to Azure SQL Drives Operational and AI Gains

🚀 This Microsoft case study showcases how three organizations—Thomson Reuters, Hexure, and CallRevu—jumpstarted modernization by migrating on-premises SQL workloads to Azure SQL Managed Instance and complementary Azure services. The migrations reduced operational overhead, improved resiliency, and enabled faster deployments. Customers reported dramatic performance improvements, shorter migration windows, and a scalable foundation for AI-driven features and insights.

Microsoft Azure Debuts Large-Scale NVIDIA GB300 Cluster

🚀 Microsoft Azure announced the first production-scale cluster using more than 4,600 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 (Blackwell Ultra) GPUs, co-engineered with NVIDIA to support OpenAI and other frontier AI workloads. The new ND GB300 v6 VMs are optimized for reasoning models, agentic systems, and multimodal generative AI, delivered on rack-scale systems with 72 GPUs per rack and 36 NVIDIA Grace CPUs. Microsoft says this infrastructure will shorten training from months to weeks and will scale to hundreds of thousands of Blackwell Ultra GPUs globally.

Azure AI Foundry Brings Multimodal OpenAI Models at Scale

🚀 Azure AI Foundry now integrates new OpenAI models—GPT-image-1-mini, GPT-realtime-mini, and GPT-audio-mini—alongside safety upgrades to GPT-5. The rollout, with most customers able to get started on October 7, 2025, targets efficient, low-latency multimodal workloads for developers and enterprises. Microsoft also highlighted the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, multi-agent workflows, unified observability, Voice Live API GA, and Responsible AI enhancements to accelerate production-grade agentic solutions.

Inside Fairwater: Microsoft's New Frontier AI Datacenter

🚀 Microsoft unveiled Fairwater, a purpose-built AI datacenter in Wisconsin and sister sites in Norway and the UK, designed to operate as a single, global-scale supercomputer. The facility deploys interconnected racks of NVIDIA GB200 servers (72 GPUs per rack) and claims 10× the performance of the world’s fastest supercomputer. It combines closed-loop liquid cooling, exabyte-scale storage and an AI WAN to enable distributed training and large-scale inference across Azure.

Ask Ralph: Conversational AI Brings Personalized Styling

🤖 Ask Ralph is a conversational AI styling companion built on Azure OpenAI, available in the Ralph Lauren app in the US. It uses natural-language prompts to interpret open-ended requests, asks clarifying questions, and returns curated, fully stylized, visually presented and shoppable outfit recommendations drawn from real-time inventory. Powered by agentic AI capabilities, the experience plans, reasons, and acts to deliver personalized looks at scale. Microsoft positions this as part of broader Azure AI solutions for retail innovation.

Agent Factory: Enterprise Design Patterns for Agentic AI

🤖 Microsoft introduces the Agent Factory series to share best practices and design patterns for enterprise agentic AI that reasons, acts, and collaborates across workflows. The post outlines five core patterns—tool use, reflection, planning, multi-agent, and ReAct—and links them to real-world outcomes such as reduced proposal time and automated incident delivery. It stresses the need for a unified platform to manage security, identity, observability, and connectors. Azure AI Foundry is presented as a scalable end-to-end solution with flexible model choice, 1,400+ connectors, open protocols, and managed Entra Agent ID and RBAC.

Microsoft Named Leader in 2025 Container Management

🚀 Microsoft announced it was recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Container Management, reflecting the scope and customer impact of its container portfolio. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Apps, and hybrid/multicloud capabilities with Azure Arc are highlighted for developer productivity, operational simplicity, and AI readiness. The company emphasized developer tooling like AKS Automatic (preview), Azure Developer CLI, and GitHub Copilot, plus integrated security through Microsoft Defender for Containers and Azure Policy. Customer examples such as ChatGPT, Telefônica Brasil, Coca‑Cola, Hexagon, and Delta Dental illustrate real-world outcomes.