Browse Machine Learning News (181)

amitch announces a preview ServiceNow connector that can query Microsoft OneLake data in place (zero-copy), aiming to reduce ETL and keep a single governed data foundation across Microsoft Fabric analytics and downstream operational workflows.

jiang_jenny1 introduces the Fabric Spark Operations Skill (preview), an AI-assisted, read-only troubleshooting tool for Spark workloads in Microsoft Fabric. It turns common investigations—failed notebooks, pipeline failures, session triage, and performance issues—into natural-language commands that produce a severity-ranked diagnostic report with fix recommendations and links back to Fabric.

jiang_jenny1 announces a preview update to the Spark History Server in Microsoft Fabric that speeds up loading for large Spark applications by switching to snapshot-based, incremental rendering. The post also covers expanded support for Spark Streaming configurations like event log compression and rolling logs.

royr explains how Microsoft Fabric surfaces service issues and incidents, including in-product banners, Teams/email notifications, and the Service Health dashboard in the Fabric admin portal, plus what admins can configure and who can view detailed health messages.

UlrichChrist announces a preview integration in Microsoft Fabric that uses a Microsoft-provided ABAP Add-On to extract SAP data at high throughput via Copy job in Fabric Data Factory, landing it in OneLake for analytics workloads and downstream reporting and AI scenarios.

Satya Nadella highlights an Azure milestone: a new performance record for a leading LLM training benchmark at extreme scale, achieved through full-stack work across silicon, systems, networking, and software in partnership with NVIDIA.

diptiborkar announces new Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks interoperability that lets teams use Microsoft OneLake as a shared, native storage layer, including GA read access and beta support for writing Unity Catalog managed tables. The post also frames OneLake as a governed data and context foundation for analytics and AI agent workloads.

preshah announces new interoperability features between Azure Databricks and Microsoft Fabric: storing Unity Catalog managed tables directly in OneLake (beta) and a “Publish to Fabric” workflow (preview) that creates mirrored catalog items from Databricks so the same tables can be queried across Fabric workloads without copying data.

Natalie Guevara announces the GitHub Multilingual Repositories Dataset, a CC0-licensed metadata dataset that helps researchers find public repositories with non-English text in READMEs, issues, and pull requests, and explains what’s included, how to use it for evaluation, and where the caveats are.

MichalBar introduces a preview redesign of Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Dashboards tile editing, adding Copilot-assisted visual authoring alongside a more code-friendly KQL workflow. The post walks through creating a visual from a prompt or query, iterating with history, and testing parameterized queries directly in the editor.

MichalBar introduces the Time Series Visualization (Preview) for Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Dashboards, focusing on how to explore multivariate time series data with series search and grouping, synchronized time-range navigation, and visual customization options like adaptive scaling and linear/log axis modes.

MichalBar announces general availability of Live Refresh for Real-Time Dashboards in Microsoft Fabric, an event-driven refresh model that updates visuals when new data is ingested. The post explains how it reduces polling overhead, supports pausing/resuming during investigation, and provides configuration options like fallback refresh intervals.

analyticanna introduces Rayfin (Preview), an open-source SDK and CLI for turning content like markdown into shareable, hosted sites deployed as first-class items in Microsoft Fabric, with stable URLs, workspace-based access control, and data captured into a SQL database in Fabric for use across OneLake workloads.

SindhuBharadwaj introduces a Fabric-first migration flow that lets you mount an Azure Data Factory instance inside a Fabric workspace and migrate selected pipelines without switching portals. The post outlines the migration steps, supported connection/authentication mappings, and the validation work to do before re-enabling triggers in production.

Aaron Merrill announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake catalog that lets admins assign, edit, and remove workspace role memberships across multiple workspaces from the Secure tab, helping teams standardize access controls and reduce drift as Fabric estates scale.

Sharlkaur introduces a preview workflow for AI-authored Power BI reports in Microsoft Fabric, using Skills for Fabric and the Power BI authoring plugin optimized for GitHub Copilot CLI. The post shows how agents can generate PBIR-based reports from prompts, iterate using screenshots, and publish to Fabric as part of an end-to-end agentic analytics flow.

shiv_narayanan announces general availability of SharePoint and OneDrive Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric OneLake, explaining how Fabric can reference Microsoft 365 files in place, optionally transform supported formats into Delta tables, and use Entra ID-based identities for production authentication and scale.

tinotereshko rounds up the Build 2026 announcements for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, covering GPU-based query acceleration, configurable data retention and time travel, SQL editor upgrades (including inline Copilot chat), and new T-SQL capabilities. The post also highlights DevOps-focused features like REST APIs and Git/DacFx-based schema deployments for the SQL analytics endpoint.

miguel shares benchmark results for Microsoft Fabric Dataflow Gen2 (CI/CD), explaining which performance lever to use (Fast Copy, Modern Evaluator, partitioned compute, staging) depending on whether your bottleneck is ingestion throughput, transformation-heavy Power Query (M), or parallel file processing.

prl announces enhancements to the Migration Assistant for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, focusing on making enterprise data warehouse migrations less manual and easier to execute with a more guided workflow.

miguel announces Microsoft Build updates for Microsoft Fabric Dataflow Gen2 and Power Query, focusing on scaling low-code data transformation with Spark-backed execution, improving reuse of query logic across dataflows, and modernizing the Power Query “Get Data” experience in Power BI Desktop.

WillT announces the general availability of Microsoft Fabric Operations agent, describing how it uses LLM-driven rule generation plus Real-Time Intelligence monitoring to detect issues, ask clarifying questions, and (with approval) run remediation actions like pipelines, notebooks, UDFs, and Power Automate workflows, with tracing and governance built in.

makromer recaps the Build 2026 updates for Microsoft Fabric Data Factory orchestration, focusing on new pipeline capabilities like human-in-the-loop approvals, conditional retries, refresh activities for Materialized Lake View and SQL endpoints, a modernized pipeline canvas, expanded Variable Libraries (including Airflow), and in-workspace migration from Azure Data Factory.

IgalAmster announces the general availability of Graph in Microsoft Fabric, a relationship-first graph capability that runs natively on OneLake. The post explains how explicit graph modeling and GQL queries support enterprise-scale reasoning for analytics, ontologies, and Fabric IQ scenarios, including security and impact analysis use cases.

GEGUIRGU announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric where Business Events are automatically stored in Eventhouse and can be queried with KQL and visualized in Real-Time Dashboards, enabling near real-time operational monitoring and historical analysis without extra configuration.

GEGUIRGU announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric where Activator can publish Business Events, turning alerts from Power BI, Real-Time Dashboards, KQL queries, and Fabric Warehouse SQL queries into structured, governed signals stored in Eventhouse for discovery, routing, and analysis across teams.

maraki announces an early access preview of GPU-accelerated Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, explaining how eligible T-SQL query plan fragments can be offloaded to NVIDIA GPUs to improve latency and predictability under high concurrency, without query rewrites or new systems to manage.

Teddyb introduces Microsoft Fabric Skills, an open-source set of packaged instructions and API patterns that help GitHub Copilot and other AI coding tools use Fabric correctly. The post explains what the skill bundles contain, how to install them via Copilot plugins or by cloning the repo, and how auth/token audiences are handled across Fabric workloads.

arindamc explains how the Mirrored Database Change Feed connector (Preview) streams Delta Change Data Feed updates from Microsoft Fabric Mirroring into Fabric Eventstreams, enabling low-latency, event-driven processing and routing to destinations like Eventhouse, Activator, and Lakehouse without custom Spark polling jobs.

murray-kp rounds up the June 2026 Microsoft Fabric release, covering OneLake storage lifecycle controls, expanded lineage for materialized lake views, major data agent updates (service principals, observability, NL2SQL, code interpreter), warehouse and SQL endpoint improvements, real-time intelligence enhancements, and stronger CI/CD and security options across integrations.

Jay Parikh outlines Microsoft’s approach to an enterprise “agent platform” that treats AI as a production system: build agents in GitHub, ground them with Microsoft IQ, run them in Foundry, govern them with Agent 365 and the Microsoft Security stack, and continuously improve via evals, traces, tuning, and feedback loops.

FaisalMohamood summarizes Microsoft Build 2026 announcements for Fabric Data Factory, focusing on new diagnostics, secure private-network ingestion, expanded mirroring, dbt and Airflow improvements, and “agent-ready” capabilities (skills + MCP) to help teams build AI-ready data pipelines on Microsoft Fabric.

Matteo Interlandi summarizes CoddSpeed, the GPU-accelerated execution engine inside Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, and explains the core architectural choices (compute and data abstraction layers), benchmark results on TPC-H and customer workloads, and what it took to harden a research prototype into a production-grade engine.

Chafia Aouissi introduces Fabric IQ as a shared semantic/ontology layer in Microsoft Fabric for grounding enterprise AI agents in governed business context, highlighting MCP connectivity, Foundry and Copilot Studio integrations, and new governance and modeling capabilities including Graph in Fabric GA.

yitzhak announces the general availability of Fabric IQ in Microsoft Fabric and explains how it acts as a shared context layer—combining OneLake, Real-Time Intelligence, semantic models, and ontologies—so AI agents and real-time applications can interpret signals consistently and take governed actions in production.

shireesht introduces Rayfin, an open-source SDK and CLI for defining and deploying a complete application backend directly onto Microsoft Fabric, with governance and security inherited from the platform. The post explains the code-first workflow, Fabric deployment model, and how app data lands in OneLake for analytics and AI workloads.

bogdanc summarizes Microsoft Build 2026 announcements across Fabric Analytics, covering Spark and Lakehouse performance updates, new Fabric Data Warehouse capabilities (including GPU-accelerated queries), Power BI semantic and agent features, and how Fabric IQ connects governed analytics to developer workflows via GitHub Copilot CLI.

Arun Ulag summarizes Microsoft Build 2026 announcements focused on building agentic applications on Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases, including the Rayfin SDK/CLI, the Azure HorizonDB PostgreSQL preview, Cosmos DB updates for local development and agent memory, and Fabric IQ/OneLake improvements for governed, AI-ready data context.

lrtoyou1223 announces the May 2026 on-premises data gateway release (v3000.318), adding admin consent controls for gateway diagnostics and integrating gateway logs into the Dataflow Gen2 run experience to speed up troubleshooting across dataflow logic, connectivity, authentication, and downstream systems.

Roberto Cervantes Rivero outlines the latest Microsoft Fabric Business Events updates, focusing on how Eventstream and Activator can publish governed events, how Eventhouse stores them for KQL-based analysis, and how the new consumption model charges publishers and consumers based on event operations and listener hours.