Browse Artificial Intelligence News (420)

Kristen Womack summarizes the April 2026 Azure Developer CLI (azd) releases, focusing on multi-language hooks in azure.yaml, extension framework updates, Copilot-assisted troubleshooting, and a set of security, provisioning, and CI/CD reliability improvements across versions 1.23.14 through 1.24.2.

The Visual Studio Code Team summarizes what’s new in VS Code 1.119 (Insiders), including Markdown UX updates and several chat/agent features such as improved codebase context for virtual file systems, attaching browser tabs as context, and Copilot CLI plan mode support.

stclarke summarizes recent Microsoft Security updates, including new Microsoft Defender protections for AI agents in the Agent 365 tooling gateway, a generally available Defender for Cloud + GitHub Advanced Security integration, and a new Microsoft Purview demo for running data security investigations with AI-assisted analysis.

Luis Quintanilla walks through ConferencePulse, a Blazor Server app on .NET 10 that uses .NET’s composable AI stack—Microsoft.Extensions.AI, DataIngestion, VectorData, MCP, and Microsoft Agent Framework—to build RAG-based Q&A, AI-generated polls/insights, and a multi-agent session summary.

Kayla Cinnamon explains how GitHub Copilot CLI’s interactive and non-interactive modes differ, when to use each, and the exact commands to start a session, run one-off prompts, and resume prior sessions from the terminal.

Allison summarizes the April 2026 update for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026, focusing on agentic workflows like launching cloud agent sessions from the IDE, user-level custom agents and skills discovery, a new debugger agent flow, plus chat history, shortcut customization, and new C++ tools.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender Security Research Team summarizes Q1 2026 email threat trends, including the scale of phishing, the surge in QR code and CAPTCHA-gated campaigns, and how the Tycoon2FA disruption shifted attacker infrastructure. It also lists concrete Defender/EOP mitigations and relevant detections.

Microsoft Fabric Blog announces a preview of the OneLake Catalog Search REST API plus MCP and Fabric CLI support, letting developers search Fabric items across workspaces by metadata and use the returned identifiers in scripts, internal tools, and agent-driven workflows.

Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Fabric SQL developers can move from Azure Data Studio to VS Code, keeping SQL Database Projects and adopting a Git-based workflow with pull requests, schema compare, publish script previews, and optional GitHub Copilot assistance in the MSSQL extension.

Microsoft Fabric Blog summarizes the April 2026 Fabric release, covering platform UX updates, VS Code-based workspace and notebook workflows, notebook retry policies, MLflow-based MLOps improvements, Data Warehouse enhancements like COPY INTO for JSONL, and Real-Time Intelligence updates including Eventstream observability and Eventhouse remote MCP.

Jack Batzner shows how to add a governance layer to MCP-based AI agents in .NET using the Agent Governance Toolkit, including policy-driven tool-call authorization, security scanning of tool definitions, response sanitization to reduce prompt-injection risk, and built-in audit/telemetry via OpenTelemetry.

Sergey Menshykh announces A2A Protocol v1.0 support in Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET, showing how to discover and call remote A2A agents, stream responses, and host your own agents as A2A endpoints in ASP.NET Core with updated v1 hosting APIs and migration notes from v0.3.

Mark Downie covers the April Visual Studio 2026 update, focusing on GitHub Copilot’s new cloud agent workflow, user-level custom agents, and a Debugger Agent that validates fixes against real runtime behavior, plus improvements to C++ agent tools, IntelliSense vs Copilot completion priority, and configurable Copilot shortcuts.

Microsoft Defender Security Research Team explains how Microsoft Sentinel UEBA enriches AWS CloudTrail logs with simple true/false behavioral signals and built-in anomalies, helping detection engineers write simpler KQL, reduce false positives, and triage suspicious AWS activity faster.

stclarke shares a LinkedIn post highlighting a Microsoft Foundry demo of durable, stateful agents that persist across sessions, orchestrate tools and models, and use checkpointing plus evaluation to improve over long-running workflows.

Allison announces that GitHub Copilot Student is removing GPT-5.3-Codex from the model picker, while keeping it available via auto model selection. The post explains this as part of temporary reliability/performance measures and points to documentation on supported models and upcoming usage-based billing changes.

Allison shares a GitHub Changelog update: Copilot cloud agent now starts over 20% faster by using optimized runner environments prebuilt with GitHub Actions custom images, reducing environment startup overhead when Copilot begins work from issues, PRs, or the Agents tab.

Allison announces a billing change for GitHub Copilot code review: starting June 1, 2026, reviews will consume both Copilot AI Credits and (for private repos) GitHub Actions minutes, with guidance on checking usage, budgets, and runner configuration.

Mario Rodriguez announces that GitHub Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, replacing premium request units with GitHub AI Credits based on token usage. The post explains what changes for individuals and organizations, including pooled credits, budget controls, and how Copilot code review also uses GitHub Actions minutes.

stclarke shares a LinkedIn post about Cricket Australia’s Live app, highlighting how Azure OpenAI and Azure Cosmos DB power “AI Insights” that let fans explore match context, player stats, and cricket history with fast, personalized responses.