Browse Artificial Intelligence News (413)
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Microsoft Fabric Blog introduces (in preview) how Eventhouse in Microsoft Fabric unifies real-time analytics with anomaly detection, data agent integration, SQL endpoints, and notebooks—aiming to move teams from live event signals to investigation and action without duplicating data or stitching multiple tools.
stclarke introduces new Microsoft Copilot Studio capabilities for combining AI agents and workflows, focusing on two practical patterns—workflows calling agents and agents calling workflows—to balance flexibility with reliability in business process automation.
Sergey Menshykh explains how Agent Skills in .NET can be authored as file-based skills, inline C# skills, or class-based skills (for example shipped via NuGet), then composed into a single provider. The article also shows script execution and a human-approval gate for tool/script calls in production-style agent scenarios.
Allison explains upcoming GitHub Copilot limit changes aimed at improving service reliability, including rate limiting behavior, guidance to switch models or use Auto mode, and the retirement of Opus 4.6 Fast for Copilot Pro+ users.
Allison announces updates to the GitHub Copilot usage metrics API, adding aggregated daily, weekly, and monthly active user counts for Copilot cloud agent (formerly Copilot coding agent) in enterprise and organization reports.
Allison announces a temporary pause on new GitHub Copilot Pro free trials due to increased abuse, while GitHub investigates and adds stronger safeguards; existing trials and paid options (including Copilot Free) continue to work as normal.
Allison explains an update to the GitHub Copilot usage metrics API where Copilot CLI activity is now included in top-level totals and feature breakdowns, changing how enterprise and organization dashboards should interpret usage fields.
Sandeep Sen announces Azure MCP Server 2.0’s stable release, focusing on self-hosted remote MCP servers, authentication options (managed identity and OBO), security hardening, and operational improvements to support agentic workflows that automate and manage Azure resources.
Christopher Harrison introduces GitHub Copilot CLI with a beginner-friendly walkthrough: install via npm, authenticate, grant folder permissions, and start prompting Copilot from your terminal (including delegating work to the Copilot cloud agent).