Microsoft AI Weekly #9: Copilot, GitHub, Azure AI & more

👋 Hi, This week in Microsoft AI: smarter coding agents, production-ready AI, Copilot Studio, Foundry, MCP, and plenty of new ways to build and work with agents.

Here’s what caught our attention this week.

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⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• Introducing Foundry Dev Pack: One Command to Start Building • Sharon Xu

• Build an interview coach app with the GitHub Copilot SDK • Justin Yoo

• Your AI coding agent evaluation is only as good as its sandbox • Waldek Mastykarz

• Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot • Stephen Toub

• VS Code Learn: Agent-First Development • Visual Studio Code and Gwyneth Pena-Siguenza

🐙 GitHub Changelog

• Copilot impact dashboard now shows feature engagement

• Enforce GitHub Advanced Security configurations

• Configure cost and quality in Copilot auto model selection

• Code scanning AI Scan no longer requires CodeQL default setup

• Agentic CLI customizations now in the usage metrics API

• Copilot budget increase requests are generally available

• Copilot code review: An improved review experience

• GitHub Copilot weekly releases

• Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models in mid-October

• GitHub Copilot suggests custom properties definitions

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Pushing the quality-cost frontier with MAI-Image-2.6 • MAI Superintelligence Team

• What if an agent could refactor your agent? • Microsoft Developer and Bethany Jepchumba

• What if you could customize your agent from a Chat Window? • Microsoft Developer and Carlotta Castelluccio

🧩 Copilot Studio

• Managing apps built in Copilot Studio • Justin Tung

• How organizations are using AI agents featuring mobilezone • Microsoft Power Platform

🗣️ Message Center

• MC1173208 - Microsoft Copilot Analytics: Data export public preview for Copilot metrics in the Copilot dashboard

• MC1238432 - Microsoft 365 Copilot app: Branded footer customization

• MC1314949 - Microsoft Viva Copilot Analytics: Daily Copilot usage snapshot with fresh data

• MC1458472: Simplified Copilot experience in Microsoft Teams

• MC1472032 - Microsoft 365 Copilot: Insights Copilot Analytics cowork adoption impact

• MC1473165 - Brand Skill support now available in PPT Copilot [Web]

• MC1473166 - Brand Skill support now available in PPT Copilot [Desktop]

• MC1474455 - In-app browsing in Copilot app

• MC1474458 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Power BI reports as references in Copilot Notebooks

• RM480725 - SharePoint: AI citations analytics for documents and pages

• RM496596 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Content Sources in Copilot Chat

• RM500638 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Chat

• RM500872 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Export Copilot metrics in the Copilot Dashboard

• RM502533 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): [Copilot Extensibility]​​[Search UX] Rich entity representation for connectors in Search results

• RM510099 - Microsoft 365 app: Add references to your Copilot Notebooks from the Quick Access section in Search on the M365 Copilot app

• RM516044 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Metadata understanding support for queries scoped to SharePoint document libraries or folders

• RM523223 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Deep citations in Copilot

• RM529864 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Semantic Goodbye word for voice in Microsoft 365 Copilot

• RM530577 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Microsoft 365 Copilot – Chat & Search Browser Extension for Chrome

• RM560705 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics

• RM561209 - Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management – Insights and policy recommendations on Microsoft Copilot and AI Apps interactions for better Data Security and Compliance posture

• RM561322 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot in PowerPoint for Government clouds

• RM561325 - Microsoft Viva: Copilot Analytics: Copilot usage snapshot PBI at day level with fresh data

• RM566701 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit your document with Copilot in PowerPoint in Government Clouds

• RM566702 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Edit your document with Copilot in PowerPoint in Government Clouds

• RM566703 - Microsoft Edge: Upgraded Copilot new tab page

• RM566864 - Microsoft Edge: Ask Copilot about an image

• RM569928 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Power BI reports as references in Copilot Notebooks

• RM570437 - PowerPoint: Async Notifications for PowerPoint Agent (Windows Desktop)

• RM570438 - PowerPoint: Async Notifications for PowerPoint Agent (Web)

• RM571157 - Microsoft Purview: DSPM-Copilot Readiness and Data Explorer

• RM571194 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Cost visibility in Preview Chat and History

• RM571195 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Cost visibility in Agent Evaluations

• RM571196 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Cost visibility in Monitor tab

• RM571299 - Microsoft Teams: Ask Copilot from Search on Mobile

• RM571306 - Microsoft Purview: Data Lifecycle Management-Legacy Teams retention policies covering Copilot will be treated as Teams-only

• RM571637 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Cowork for Government Clouds

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🌍 From the community

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

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• Scaffold a Grounded Declarative Agent from a Business Brief • Sébastien Levert

• Round-Tripping an Agent Plugin with WIQD • Sébastien Levert

📆 Upcoming Events

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

• Save the Date: Join us October 20 for the OneDrive + Copilot Digital Event • Arwa_Tyebkhan

• Get ready for PPCC26 with Sean Astrakhan! • Sophie Ke and Sean Astrakhan

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