June 16, 2026

Intelligent sampling in Microsoft Foundry: the science behind selecting better production traces

TL;DR Microsoft Foundry’s intelligent sampling feature (used when creating an evaluation or fine-tuning dataset from production agent traces) uses a MinHash farthest-first diversity sampler. On WildChat […]
June 16, 2026

Microsoft Defender email security benchmarking: Key insights from one year of data

Microsoft publishes quarterly email security benchmarking data comparing Microsoft Defender against secure email gateway (SEG) and integrated cloud email security (ICES) vendors using real-world threat telemetry. […]