Microsoft AI Weekly #4: Copilot, GitHub, Azure AI & more

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👋 Hi, here’s this week’s roundup of Microsoft AI news.

Wow, what a week it was at Microsoft Build. Microsoft was firing on all cylinders with seven new Microsoft AI models, a redesigned Copilot experience, major updates across Foundry and Copilot Studio, and a huge wave of agentic developer tooling across GitHub and VS Code. It feels like we’ve moved into the next phase of AI.

I’ve pulled together the key announcements, videos, product updates, and community posts below so you can catch up on the important bits without having to trawl through everything yourself.

Enjoy!

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⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• 📺 Introducing Microsoft Scout • Microsoft 365

• Learning Agent now generally available • Dan Zarzar

• Work IQ: Production‑ready intelligence for every agent • Tolga Kilicli

• AI alone won’t change your business. The system running it will. • Jay Parikh

• SharePoint Showcase: From Chaos to AI-Ready with the SharePoint Admin Agent • Sophia Peng and Sesha Mani

• Introducing Microsoft Scout: Your always-on personal agent • Omar Shahine

• Introducing a new design for Microsoft 365 Copilot • Jon Friedman

• 📺 5 Copilot in Excel Tips to Try Today • Microsoft 365

• 📺 Connecting customer-built AI to Microsoft 365 Copilot: The proxy agent pattern • Microsoft CAT AI

• 📺 Copilot Studio Component Collections – Testing and Scalability Options • David Warner

• 📺 Copilot Studio single response evaluations • Microsoft Power Platform

• 📺 Copilot, Microsoft 365 & Power Platform community call - 4th of June 2026 • Microsoft Community Learning

• 📺 Advanced manifest capabilities for Copilot Chat declarative agent • Sébastien Levert

• 📺 Connecting agents in Copilot Chat - Composing an agent ecosystem • Sébastien Levert

• 📺 Introduction to custom AI Skills in SharePoint • Zach Rosenfield

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Dataverse Plugin for Coding Agents: Three Enterprise Scenarios from Microsoft Build 2026 • Kent Weare

• Securing CI/CD in an agentic world: Claude Code Github action case • Microsoft Defender Security Research Team

• MAI-Code-1-Flash • MAI Superintelligence Team

• CI/CD for AI Agents on Microsoft Foundry • Lee Stott

• GitHub - microsoft/AI-Engineering-Coach: better agentic engineering • Aymen Furter

• Azure Functions at Build 2026 Update • nzthiago

• 📺 .NET 11 in depth: Runtime, libraries, and SDK for the AI era • Richard Lander and Chet Husk

• 📺 How Microsoft AI builds coding models optimized for GitHub Copilot | LIVE158 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Is DOOM a Tensor? | LIVE165 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 VS Code Agents window: Orchestrate agents across every project • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 /remote in VS Code • Kayla Cinnamon

• 📺 Agent Plugins in VS Code • Liam Hampton

• 📺 Building for the agentic web with .NET 11 • Daniel Roth

• 📺 Chronicle: Turn your chat history into insights • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Claude & Codex Agents in VS Code • Liam Hampton

• 📺 Claude Is in Copilot. Here’s What That Actually Means | LIVE168 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Designing VS Code’s UX for the Agentic Era | LIVE156 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Multi-agent patterns in VS Code you won’t learn from docs | BRK201 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Rubber duck debugging in VS Code & GitHub Copilot CLI • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Take Multi-agent workflows on the go with vscode.dev/agents • James Montemagno

• 📺 Taking your AI to the edge with .NET MAUI • Gerald Versluis

• 📺 The New Agents Window in VS Code | LIVE169 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 What we learned shipping VS Code weekly (without breaking everything) | BRK204 • Visual Studio Code

• 📺 Your Browser Lives in VS Code Now | LIVE154 • Visual Studio Code

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Copilot Chat brings richer context to pull requests

• GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex deprecated

• Enterprise-managed plugins in VS Code in public preview

• Fix with Copilot for failing Actions now in Pro, Pro+, and Max

• Agent tasks REST API now available for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max

• Larger context windows and configurable reasoning levels for GitHub Copilot

• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio

• GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, May releases

• GPT-4.1 deprecated

• Expanded technical preview availability for the GitHub Copilot app

• Copilot SDK is now generally available

• Copilot CLI: Improved UI, rubber duck, prompt scheduling, and voice input

• Cloud and local sandboxes for GitHub Copilot now in public preview

• GitHub Copilot code review for Azure Repos is now in technical preview

• Shape Copilot code review around your team

• Extend GitHub with agent apps

• Introducing Copilot CLI and agentic capabilities enhancements in JetBrains IDEs

• Gemini models in Copilot CLI, cloud agent, and the Copilot app

• GitHub Copilot in Eclipse: BYOK, skills, and chat updates

• Gain insights across your agent sessions with /chronicle

• Updates to GitHub Copilot billing and plans

• Evaluation models in auto for individual plans

• Copilot usage metrics API adds cohorts for AI adoption

• Claude Opus 4.8 is generally available for GitHub Copilot

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Frontier Tuning: Teaching AI to work the way you do • Ranveer Chandra

• Build collaborative agents where work happens • Sujeet Mehta

• Today we’re announcing 3 new world class MAI models, available in Foundry • MAI Superintelligence Team and Mustafa Suleyman

• Introducing MAI-Voice-2 • MAI Superintelligence Team

• Introducing MAI-Transcribe-1.5 • MAI Superintelligence Team

• Introducing MAI-Code-1-Flash • MAI Superintelligence Team

• New Azure Cobalt 200 VMs deliver 50% performance improvement, fully optimized for modern agentic AI workloads • Arun Kishan

• Accelerate Edge AI Development with Foundry Local • Sam Kemp

• Build 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework • Sebastian Kohlmeier

• Expanding the Reach of Document Translation - New Capabilities Announced at Microsoft Build • Swetha Machanavajhala

• Announcing Foundry Managed Compute: Run open models in Microsoft Foundry • Manoj Bableshwar

• Introducing Agent Optimizer in Foundry Agent Service • Luis Quintanilla

• Making agent memory more reliable, transparent, and production-ready • Lewis Liu

• Discovery to Execution: Scaling Agents with Toolboxes and Routines in Microsoft Foundry • Linda Li

• From Building Agents to Working with Them: Enterprise Agent Distribution in Microsoft Foundry • Amanda Foster

• Build smarter document workflows: What’s new in Azure Content Understanding at Build 2026 • Peyton Fraser

• Azure Translator API Version 2026‑06‑06 (GA): Supporting Multilingual Applications with Flexible Translation Options • Mohamed Elghazali

• A Developer’s Guide to Managing Models, Cost and Quality in Microsoft Foundry • Naomi Moneypenny

• Build and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026 • Tina Schuchman

• Build agents you can trust across any framework with open evals and a control standard • Sarah Bird

• Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval • Pablo Castro

• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | Build Edition • Nick Brady

• What’s New in Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service • Tina Manghnani

• 📺 Real-world agent case studies - how organizations are using AI Agents • Microsoft CAT AI

• 📺 Azure AI Search with Autonomous Copilot Studio Agents • Rafsan Huseynov

• 📺 Extending Agents with MCP Servers • Visual Studio Code

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• Microsoft Build 2026: Empowering our developers to adopt agentic AI at Microsoft • Lukas Velush

• Announcing the new Work IQ APIs • Charles Lamanna

• What’s new in Copilot Studio: May 2026 updates and features • Nitasha Chopra

• Advanced Connector Policies are generally available • Lane Swenka

• Build Power Pages Sites with AI through Agentic Coding tools, now Generally Available • Neeraj Nandwana

• Quality Evaluation Framework for Customer Emails in Dynamics 36 • Harish Tyagi and Shruti Phanse

• Modernize IVR with AI Voice in Dynamics 365 Contact Center • Joe Weeden

• 📺 AI for Change Managers: Automating Change Impact Insights with Copilot Studio • Delia Zuniga

• 📺 Making SPFx upgrades smooth and easy with Claude Code • Nello D’Andrea

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• Microsoft Build 2026: Building agentic apps with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases • Arun Ulag

• Announcing Microsoft Discovery general availability and Microsoft Discovery app preview • Aseem Datar

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Microsoft CISO advice: Securing AI with full stack red teaming • Rani Lofstrom

• Microsoft Build 2026: Securing code, agents, and models across the development lifecycle • Ales Holecek

• Updating the taxonomy of failure modes in agentic AI systems: What a year of red teaming taught us • Microsoft AI Red Team

• Build AI agents for production with secure identities from day one • Arturo Lucatero

• 📺 Agent 365 | Security Operations in Defender • Microsoft Mechanics

• 📺 Start Secure: Connect GitHub to Your Live Environment • Microsoft Security

• 📺 Stay Secure: AI-powered Faster fixes • Microsoft Security

• 📺 Stay Secure: Prioritize Real Risks • Microsoft Security

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🌍 From the community

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

💼 Productivity & Work

• Copilot Cowork • Jack Rowbotham

• Project Opal: Computer-Using Agents on Windows 365 • Niklas Tinner

• Copilot Cowork • Jack Rowbotham

• 📺 Microsoft Scout AI: My Huge Aha Moment for Workflow Automation • WorkModern

• 📺 Understanding and Using AI Skills • John Savill’s Technical Training

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Building a RAG Administration Tool with .NET, Elasticsearch and OpenAI • Jamie Maguire

• The 8192-Token Cliff: Why Your .NET RAG Pipeline Throws Random 500s • Jamie Maguire

• GitHub Copilot Has a Model Governance Gap Hiding in Plain Sight • Chris Pietschmann

• GitHub Copilot Multi-Repo Instructions: Sharing Skills, Agents, and Conventions Across Repos • Chris Bradshaw

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Microsoft Agent Framework: Agents on Azure Functions with Durable Task Scheduler • Jaliya Udagedara

• Microsoft Agent Framework: Deterministic Multi-Agent Orchestrations with .NET Durable Functions • Jaliya Udagedara

• How to Use Build5Nines.SharpVector with Microsoft Agent Framework for Local RAG in C# • Chris Pietschmann

• 🛠️ GitHub - Azure-Samples/claude: Deploy Anthropic Claude on Microsoft Foundry with azd up (Bicep or Terraform) and call it with the official Claude SDKs over Entra ID. • Arun Sekhar

• Shipping Declarative Agents Across Environments and Versions • Sébastien Levert

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• CI/CD Pipelines for Declarative Agents with Agents Toolkit • Sébastien Levert

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• Data API Builder and SQL MCP with Jerry Nixon • Jerry Nixon and Richard Campbell

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Blocking Generative AI with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint • Raymond Roethof

• Shadow AI Governance: Why You Must Control AI Data Risk In Microsoft 365 • Nikki Chapple

• What 35 Years In Tech Taught Me About Data Security And AI Governance • Nikki Chapple

• 📺 Mastering AI Governance in Modern Organizations • Cloudy with a Chance of Insights, The MSFT Podcast and Richard Hogan

• 📺 Where Do Copilot Prompts Appear in Purview [4 Ways] • Ru Campbell

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