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Jesse Houwing summarizes GitHub’s update that GitHub Copilot can now keep inference processing and associated data within US or EU data residency regions, and shows the enterprise/org policy you must enable to restrict Copilot to data-resident models.

Reenu Saluja breaks down the main Azure hosting options for production AI agents and explains when to use each, with a deeper walkthrough of Microsoft Foundry Hosted Agents (deployment, lifecycle management, observability, scaling, and invocation patterns).

sachoudhury explains GitHub Copilot Custom Skills: repo- or user-scoped SKILL.md “runbooks” that Copilot can discover and execute in agent mode to automate multi-step developer workflows (commands, scripts, and report generation).

David Sanchez lays out a practical DevOps playbook for teams adopting AI coding agents (including GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent), focusing on readiness prerequisites, human–agent collaboration patterns, pipeline changes, governance, and security controls needed to keep quality and accountability intact as non-human contributors scale up.

Joseph Katsioloudes introduces Season 4 of GitHub’s Secure Code Game, a hands-on set of challenges where you exploit and fix vulnerabilities in an agentic AI assistant (ProdBot) to learn real-world AI-agent security risks like prompt-based tool misuse, memory poisoning, and sandbox escape.

GitHub shows how GitHub Copilot CLI can speed up onboarding by scanning a repository and returning a plain-English overview of the codebase from the terminal.

stclarke shares a Microsoft AI announcement introducing MAI-Image-2-Efficient, a production-oriented text-to-image model available in Microsoft Foundry and MAI Playground, positioned as faster and cheaper than MAI-Image-2 while maintaining “flagship” quality.

ManishChopra outlines six practical integration patterns for building agents and copilots that query Oracle Database@Azure with sub-millisecond proximity to Microsoft’s AI stack, covering options from Copilot Studio connectors to ORDS/PL/SQL, Azure Functions, and Logic Apps, plus the identity/governance controls typically needed for production.

Ismael Mejía Useche and Pooja Yarabothu introduce the “PostgreSQL Like a Pro” video series, focused on practical ways to run and modernize PostgreSQL workloads on Azure—covering AI agent patterns, AI-assisted migrations in VS Code, and performance/resiliency considerations at scale.

Microsoft Developer features Jonathon Frost from the Microsoft Azure PostgreSQL team, walking through migrating to managed PostgreSQL on Azure (homogeneous and heterogeneous scenarios) and demonstrating AI-assisted Oracle-to-Postgres migration using VS Code with GitHub Copilot.

Microsoft Developer hosts Abe Omorogbe showing how to build AI-powered agents on Azure backed by PostgreSQL, including secure connectivity, natural-language querying/analytics, and vector search, using Microsoft Foundry.

Microsoft Developer shares Dingding Liu’s overview of Azure HorizonDB, a new Azure-managed PostgreSQL service aimed at extreme scale and performance, including architecture highlights, a quick VS Code provisioning demo, and AI-oriented capabilities like vector indexing and SQL-based AI functions.

Allison announces that GitHub Copilot’s third-party coding agents (Claude and Codex) now support model selection on github.com, including the currently available Claude Sonnet/Opus and GPT-5 Codex model options, plus notes on required admin policies and repo settings.

GitHub introduces a new remote feature for GitHub Copilot CLI that lets you access and control an active terminal session from any browser-enabled device. In this short update, GitHub explains the core capability and links to the public preview announcement.

Dorothy Pearce introduces GitHub’s free Code Security Risk Assessment, a one-click scan that uses CodeQL to surface vulnerabilities across up to 20 active repositories, and explains how the results help teams prioritize remediation (including where Copilot Autofix may apply).

Allison announces updates to GitHub Code Quality standard findings (public preview), including faster triage features like file-path search, bulk dismiss/reopen, and richer per-finding context, with fix suggestions generated by GitHub Copilot Autofix.

Allison announces GitHub Copilot data residency for US and EU regions plus FedRAMP Moderate support, outlining what features are covered, which models are available, the pricing uplift for compliant endpoints, and how enterprise/org admins can enable the policies.

jordanselig shows how to add runtime governance to a multi-agent ASP.NET Core travel planner on Azure App Service using the Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit, including YAML policy allowlists, audit logging into Application Insights, and SRE controls like SLOs and circuit breakers.

Allison announces a new “Fix with Copilot” button on github.com that uses Copilot cloud agent to resolve merge conflicts, verify builds/tests, and push updates from a cloud development environment, plus @copilot commands for PR fixes and workflow failures.

Allison announces a public preview feature for GitHub Copilot CLI that enables remote control of running CLI sessions from GitHub on the web and in GitHub Mobile, including monitoring, steering messages, plan review, and policy-controlled permissions.