3 things leaders need to know from Microsoft Build 2026

By Dustin Ward

In this article 1. Your AI is only as good as what it knows about your business 2. Tools don’t transform organizations. Systems do. 3. The bar has moved. AI is expected to deliver real business outcomes. Your next step to build an AI-powered business Related Build headlines I’ve had a front-row seat to a…

AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will.

By Dustin Ward

AI has arrived in the enterprise, and the shift is happening all at once. Every function, every role, every workflow is being reshaped. At the same time, a new class of organizations is emerging, one that will look fundamentally different from the companies that defined the last era of business. The winners won’t be those…

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry

By Dustin Ward

Claude Opus 4.8 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, giving developers and enterprises access to Anthropic’s most capable Opus model for coding, agentic tasks, and professional work.As AI applications become more complex, teams need models that can handle longer-running work, reason more deeply across complex analysis use tools more reliably across multi-step workflows, and support…