Microsoft AI Weekly #11: Copilot, GitHub, Azure AI & more

Learn about computer use, Project Hydrafusion, MAI Transcribe 2 models and more...

👋 Hi folks!

Another banger week from Microsoft.

GitHub Copilot can now drive desktop apps with computer use. So you can automate apps that don’t have an API. How crazy is that? I’ve been using computer use in ChatGPT for months, and the GitHub Copilot app’s take on it is really neat.

HydraFusion also landed in VS Code and the Copilot app. And GPT-6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 are rolling out in Copilot.

Building real-time voice to text into your app? MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming just topped the Final Transcript Accuracy leaderboard. Worth a serious look.

As always, there’s plenty more below. All in one email.

Enjoy!

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⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Inside Track - Choosing the right AI experience for employee productivity and support • Laura Oxford

• Help your customers get answers and support with Teams Phone Agent • Johnny McCormick

• What’s new in Copilot in SharePoint: October 2026 • Julie Seto

• Voices from the Skies: Real world lessons to help drive Copilot adoption and ROI • Microsoft Developer and Stephen Rose

• KEYNOTE: From Copilot to Flight Captain • Microsoft Developer and Dona Sarkar

• Powering the Cockpit: Boost Your M365 Flight Crew | Boost Microsoft 365 with Cowork, Scout & More • Microsoft Developer and Ishaan Mirchandani

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Bring your plugin to Microsoft Copilot with Work IQ Developer Tools • Sébastien Levert, Rachit Malik and Seth T. Bacon

• Build with Azure Canvases: a shared workspace for agents • Matt Hernandez

• Enabling Consistent AI-Assisted Engineering with GitHub Copilot Plugins • Fernando De Oliveira, Fernanda Lasmar and Denise Mignoli

• Get started with the GitHub Copilot app: a free, hands-on course • Dan Wahlin

• Voices from the Skies: Build Your Own Personal Assistant with GitHub Copilot App • Microsoft Developer and Henk Boelman

• Keep Your AI Accurate with Microsoft Learn MCP Server • Microsoft Developer

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Copilot code review: API support and new default effort level

• Selected models in GitHub Copilot deprecated

• GitHub Copilot can now interact with desktop apps with computer use

• GitHub Copilot in VS Code, September 2026 releases

• Dynamic workflows in Copilot CLI and the Copilot app

• HydraFusion in VS Code and the GitHub Copilot app

• GPT-6.1 Sol in GitHub Copilot

• Claude Sonnet 5.5 in GitHub Copilot

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• FabCon and SQLCon 2026 in Barcelona: Building the data foundation for Microsoft Copilot and agents • Arun Ulag

• Rebuilding our Microsoft Foundry Labs site with a three-people build team and AI • Mark Armstrong

• Azure Content Understanding: Building on a decade of Document Intelligence • Cha Zhang

• Why content extraction still matters in the GenAI era • Cha Zhang and Chu Lahlou

• Tools your agent can actually trust • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• AI Agents Monitoring Workbook V2: From Agent Inventory to Runtime Evidence • David Alonso Dominguez and David Alonso Dominguez

Copilot Studio

• Skill up on Copilot Studio with April Dunnam and Jack Rowbotham!

Upcoming Events

• Get ready for the big #Microsoft makers meet-up in Las Vegas! • Microsoft Power Platform

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

Message Center

• MC1166852 - Microsoft Viva Copilot Analytics launches new agent dashboard

• MC1288531 - Microsoft Viva - Copilot Analytics: Export agent data from the Agent Dashboard

• MC1307979 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot chat pane and Summary feature in OneNote Mobile (iPhone)

• MC1309746 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Copilot chat pane and Summary feature in OneNote Mobile (Android)

• MC1405506 - Microsoft OneNote: Multimodal recording in Copilot Notebooks on Windows

• MC1441784 - Microsoft Copilot for Outlook: New Copilot entry point in Classic Outlook

• MC1480873 - Connected Platforms - Agent 365 extends observability to third-party agents

• MC1481313 - Microsoft Purview | DLM: Legacy Teams retention policies that cover Copilot will be treated as Teams-only

• MC1481315 - Microsoft Purview: Retirement of Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) classic and DSPM for AI classic experiences

• MC1483844 - Microsoft Copilot: GPT 6.1 Sol and Claude Sonnet 5.5 beginning to roll out today

• MC1484007 - Updated Copilot in Microsoft Edge Experience

• MC1485411 - Microsoft Excel: Excel canvas

• MC1486284 - Microsoft Purview | Data Loss Prevention: Administrative Units support for DLP policies for Microsoft Copilot

• MC1486295 - Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint: Generate smart tables of contents for PDFs on the web with Copilot

• RM502858 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Live subtitles on voice chat in Copilot when using the quick composer

• RM543422 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Excel Agent

• RM560538 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics

• RM561040 - Microsoft Edge: Commercial Journeys - AI-powered task completion for Microsoft 365 Copilot users

• RM567000 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Engage prospects faster with Sales Agent-enriched leads

• RM567002 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Add custom insights to record summaries in Sales agent

• RM567003 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Enrich Sales agent meeting prep with more data sources

• RM567007 - Outlook: New Copilot entry point in Classic Outlook

• RM567121 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 admin center - Usage reports - Copilot Chat for GCC, GCC High and DoD

• RM568762 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Agent Readiness in Microsoft Copilot Studio

• RM568933 - Microsoft Teams: Use Copilot Chat after a call in Queues app

• RM569425 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft M365): Delegated prompt publishing for organization prompts

• RM570430 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Persistent identity for Copilot Studio Agents

• RM570432 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Self-learning for Copilot Studio Agents

• RM570853 - Work IQ: Custom agents + 3P calls

• RM570854 - Work IQ: ExpandedContextIQ

• RM570963 - Microsoft Clipchamp: Copilot video creation updates

• RM571308 - OneDrive: Prompt gallery for Copilot

• RM571394 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Use Dataverse Business Skills in Sales Agent

• RM571400 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Chat: Access to UBB models via the model selector

• RM571678 - Dynamics 365 Customer Service: Service tools, skills and plugins are now available for Cowork, Code and Scout

• RM571880 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Discover & Add Skills from the skill catalog

• RM571884 - Word: Legal plugins in Copilot

• RM573254 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Expense Agent - Add date ranges and vehicle types in your mileage calculation

• RM573255 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Expense Agent

• RM573258 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Expense Agent

• RM573262 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Expense Agent - Calculate and report VAT based on expense reports

• RM573280 - Outlook: Draft, edit and format emails conversationally with Copilot in Outlook

• RM573304 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Expense Agent - Calculate withholding tax automatically in expense reports

• RM573312 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents

• RM573338 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Development - Use AL language intelligence from AI agents and other editors

• RM573346 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Development - Let agents allocate free AL object IDs

• RM573361 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Development - Debug recorded Business Central failures with an AI agent

• RM573362 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents

• RM573363 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Manage tasks from all agents in dedicated task pane

• RM573364 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Show avatars for record creators and modifiers in list

• RM573366 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Review content generated by agents directly on pages

• RM573369 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: User experiences

• RM573370 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents

• RM573372 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents

• RM573373 - Dynamics 365 Sales: Sales tools, skills and plugin are now available in Copilot Cowork

• RM573380 - Dynamics 365 Business Central: Copilot and agents - Improve purchase order matching in Payables Agent

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🌍 From the community

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

💼 Productivity & Work

• Cleared for Takeoff: Build Your First Agent | Build Your First Agent and Skills in Agent Builder • Microsoft Developer

• The Home Airport for Copilot and Agents | Why your Agents and Copilot love SharePoint • Microsoft Developer, Julia Espinosa and Rk Mennon

• Welcome Aboard: Meet Your New Work Copilot | Microsoft 365 Copilot like you’ve never seen! • Microsoft Developer and Kelli Davis

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Humanist AI in practice: A public consultation on our Code of Conduct for MAI Models • MAI Superintelligence Team

• Flight Intelligence: The Power of Work IQ | Discover how Work IQ is your business’s secret sauce • Microsoft Developer, Tolga Kilicli, Ayça Baş and Anthony Shaw

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Air Traffic Control for Agents • Microsoft Developer and Chris Huntingford

Copilot Studio

• AI Weekly: Copilot Studio Hooks, Lovable, and Desktop Automation • Josh Cook

• Captain’s Training: Master Copilot Studio | Use the New Harness, MCPs and More • Microsoft Developer and April Dunnam

• Expanding Your Airspace | Extend your Copilot with Plugins, Work IQ Dev Tools and more! • Microsoft Developer and Rachit Malik

Upcoming Events

• Blazor Community Standup: Build agentic experiences with the Blazor AI Components • dotnet

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