Microsoft AI Weekly #10: Copilot, GitHub, Azure AI & more

Learn about the new Copilot app, sandboxing and new releases of frontier models!

👋 Hi, new week, new newsletter ⁠:)

This one’s big.

The headline is the new Copilot app. It’s a huge deal. Satya’s post lays out the vision: one Copilot for work, across every model and every device. Go read it if you haven’t.

GitHub Copilot had a massive week too. Claude Opus 5.5 landed. So did OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. And Grok 4.7. That’s new models from three different labs in your model picker in the same week.

The one I’m most excited about is local sandboxing in the GitHub Copilot app. Agents working in an isolated sandbox on your machine is exactly the guardrail you want before you let them loose on real code. It’s off by default, so you’ll need to turn it on yourself. You’re reading this newsletter, which makes you a pioneer by definition. Go flip the switch and try it out.

Add Microsoft Autopilot going into preview and a Message Center that just wouldn’t stop, and there’s a lot to get through.

Let’s go.

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⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• SharePoint AI innovations hit GA, powering new Copilot app and agents • Jeff Teper

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases • Kayla Cinnamon

• When chat is the wrong UI • Burke Holland

• Rendering huge pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app • Alberto Gimeno

• Knowledge cutoff is a poor proxy for model capability • Waldek Mastykarz

• VS Code Learn: Extending Agents • Liam Hampton

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Enterprise managed settings in-product validator

• Agentic autofix now uses Copilot Memory

• GitHub Copilot weekly releases

• Updates to GitHub Copilot for Slack and Microsoft Teams

• Default Enablement of Copilot features for Copilot Business and Enterprise

• More ways to request and configure Copilot code reviews

• Local sandboxing in the GitHub Copilot app

• OpenTelemetry in the GitHub Copilot app

• New features and improvements in Copilot for JetBrains

• Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot

• OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna now available

• Grok 4.7 is now available in GitHub Copilot

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Ship agents faster with expanded model choice, voice agents, and continuous optimization • Tina Schuchman

• Prioritizing AI transformation opportunities in Microsoft Finance • Mark Armstrong

• From Chatbots to Automated Agents: Routines in Microsoft Foundry Are Now Generally Available • Linda Li

• Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work • Mike Hulme

• GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna: For production agents in Microsoft Foundry • Naomi Moneypenny

• Agentic RAG and chat completion in the Microsoft SQL engine • Microsoft Developer, Anna Hoffman and Bob Ward

• One model deployment to route them all • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

• Stop guessing which model your agent needs • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Control where your hosted agent connects with network egress in Foundry Agent Service • Muzz Imam

• From the field: How agentic AI is reshaping adoption at Microsoft • Poly Palaiogeorgou

• Governance is becoming agentic, too: How enterprises can operate AI at scale • niravshah

• How to prevent agent data leak with advanced connector policy | EP04 • Microsoft Power Platform

🎨 Copilot Studio

• Driving seller adoption of Sales Agent through role-based change management at Microsoft • David Hirning

• Want to get started with #CopilotStudio, but not sure where to begin? • Microsoft Power Platform

🗣️ Message Center

• MC1187682 - Microsoft Edge: Microsoft 365 Copilot will support summarization and contextual grounding

• MC1429018 - Microsoft Teams: AI meeting archive file generation

• MC1454113 - Microsoft Copilot Word: Document summarization experience moving

• MC1462915 - Allow connections to copilot.cloud.microsoft before the Copilot URL redirect

• MC1475801 - Dynamics 365 Contact Center

• MC1476319 - Microsoft SharePoint: Changes to the FAQ web part authoring experience

• MC1477182 - Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft Cowork

• MC1477184 - Microsoft 365 admin center: Agent Registry consolidates duplicate agent entries and adds version history

• MC1478465 - Security Copilot is now included as part of your Microsoft 365 E5/E7 plan

• MC1478958 - Microsoft SharePoint Online: Select page canvas elements for Copilot-assisted editing

• MC1478965 - Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management

• MC1478975 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Use Microsoft Agent 365 agents as connected agents in declarative agents

• RM499423 - Microsoft Edge: Ground Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat in Edge for Business in your open OneDrive and SharePoint documents

• RM501451 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in SharePoint

• RM503553 - Microsoft 365 Admin Center: Authoritative content management for Microsoft 365 Copilot Search

• RM503772 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility] Users in DoD will be able to use custom engine agents

• RM516577 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Planner capabilities in Copilot chat (M365 Copilot)

• RM554934 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat in Outlook expands to reason over inbox, calendar, and enterprise data

• RM555881 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Attach and reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.

• RM555890 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Attach and reference an image when creating a presentation with Copilot in PowerPoint using Agent Mode.

• RM555897 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Reference files saved in SharePoint libraries and OneDrive folders when creating a presentation with Agent Mode in PowerPoint

• RM558933 - Microsoft Teams: AI-generated meeting archive for knowledge retention

• RM559017 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Work IQ APIs: Pay‑As‑You‑Go usage

• RM560076 - SharePoint: Create charts on pages with AI

• RM562017 - Microsoft Viva: Fresh Copilot Metrics in Custom Person Queries & Reports- Viva Advanced Analysis

• RM570436 - PowerPoint: Async Notifications for Copilot in PowerPoint

• RM570964 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Federated Copilot Connectors will support write, update and delete actions

• RM571663 - Dynamics 365 Field Service: Microsoft Copilot in Field Service Mobile app

• RM571886 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Local inferencing

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🌍 From the community

Hand-picked from MVPs and AI subject-matter experts around the globe.

• Claude Opus 5.5 comes to Microsoft Foundry for long-running coding and knowledge work • Amar Badal

• AI Weekly: Copilot’s Super App, Work IQ, and New Models • Josh Cook

• New Course Coming Soon: Integrating AI Agents in Enterprise Systems • Jamie Maguire

Upcoming Events

• .NET + Foundry, better together • dotnet

• .NET AI Community Standup: Interview Coach Evolves: MAF + GitHub Copilot SDK • dotnet

• Discover the Experts Bringing Microsoft 365, AI, and Copilot to Life at ESPC 2026 • HeatherCook

• Join the Copilot Dev Camp Summit Fall Edition on September 30 • Paolo Pialorsi

• Skill up on Copilot Studio Oct 8th! • Microsoft Developer

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