Microsoft AI Spotlight

Microsoft's Phi Silica update, version 1.2610.1069.0, includes improvements for Windows 11 versions 24H2, 25H2 and 26H2. The source does not specify...

This guide shows how a Foundry agent can work with live Azure DevOps data through a remote MCP server.

• Secure link: CData Connect AI's Remote MCP...

Microsoft says its redesigned content experience across Edge and the Windows taskbar Discover dashboard brings an overhauled recommendation engine and...

Microsoft says European organizations will be able to use Claude models in Copilot without giving up regional data-processing commitments.

• Timing:...

The Copilot Managed Runtime SDK is in preview. Getting started requires a few prerequisites:

• Developer tools: An IDE, Node.js LTS v24.11.0 or...

Microsoft Foundry is bringing Kling, LTX, and MiniMax video models into public preview through its partnership with fal, offering both text-to-video...

Agents in Microsoft Foundry can pick which knowledge sources to search, using LLMs to run subqueries based on prompt complexity. Foundry IQ is an MCP...

Before building, check these requirements for the Copilot harness preview:

• Region and model: Use a supported region and a reasoning- and...

GitHub Copilot is no longer tied to VS Code. On 3 November 2026, GitHub announced Copilot as a selectable agent in JetBrains Air, and on 4 November it...

Microsoft says its Copilot localization work for Japan spanned many teams, which led to duplicate bug reports and multiple escalation paths for the...

The Foundry extension for Azure Developer CLI hit 1.0 and is generally available, according to Microsoft. Agent setup, local testing and deployment...

The key difference is what you are building, not how you prompt:

• Copilot on the report canvas creates and edits native Power BI reports, keeping...

An x64 build setting is easy to spot, but a package that quietly depends on a native library without an Arm64 binary takes more digging.

Common...

Microsoft's engineering report on its MAI-Code-1.1-Flash model, a 137.9-billion-parameter mixture of experts, highlights several trade-offs:

-...

GitHub Copilot plugin support for JetBrains 2025.2.x is ending. The new minimum will be 2025.3.x, and Microsoft recommends 2026.2 or later.

• Not an...

Microsoft's sidebar is meant to track command-line agents and keep long-running work accessible after terminal windows close. It is on by default, and...

Blitzy has partnered with a Microsoft Frontier Company to bring AI to Azure workload migrations. The available excerpt mentions a Foundry platform for building and deploying AI applications, but does not explain how it is used in migrations.

Microsoft has made the GitHub app for Teams generally available, bringing GitHub Copilot, repository management, and development workflows into one...

October's Foundry updates center on agents, and Ignite (November 17-20) is the place to go deeper.

• Copilot harness in public preview: a managed...

Microsoft is applying usage limits to more Copilot Chat features for commercial users without a Microsoft 365 Copilot license, and it won't publish...