MSAI.ms #2 → Merill's weekly Microsoft AI roundup

Learn about Microsoft's new multi-model agentic security MDASH AI, the new GitHub Copilot App and more!

👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with the second issue of our new weekly Microsoft AI news roundup.

It’s been yet another busy week in the world AI at Microsoft. Without further ado, here’s all the MS AI news you might have missed.

Enjoy!

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⚡️ Microsoft

The latest from Microsoft on AI.

💼 Productivity & Work

• Fly With Copilot

• A simplified system - Microsoft Design • Jon Friedman

• 📺 Copilot App Deep Dive: Intelligence, Context & Agents • Dan Holme

• 📺 Copilot Cowork: Let AI Run Your Workflows End‑to‑End • Derah Onuorah

• 📺 Copilot Studio Plugin for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot

• 📺 Dataverse in Microsoft 365 Copilot

• 📺 Extending your Copilot Chat declarative agent with actions - API plugins and MCP • Sébastien Levert

• 📺 Meeting Agent & Channel Agent: Turning Meetings into Action • Miceile Barrett

• 📺 SharePoint + AI: From Content Management to Intelligent Teammate • Miceile Barrett

• 📺 What is Copilot Cowork? | Meet the Builders • Christopher Whitten, Steve Gustavson and Bas Brekelmans

• 📺 Work IQ | Data, Context, Skills & Tools for Copilot and Your Agents • Jeremy Chapman

• RM490154 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Learning Agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot

• RM508524 - Outlook: User-initiated Copilot insights in classic Outlook

• RM561037 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Vision in Microsoft 365 Copilot can analyze content shared on-screen

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

• RM561920 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): SharePoint list support in Agent Builder

• RM562018 - SharePoint: AI overview for SharePoint News posts in the SharePoint app for Teams

• RM562351 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Get actionable suggestions from Copilot in your Copilot Page

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• GitHub Copilot app is now available in technical preview

• Copilot code review: Comment experience improvements

• April reports are now available to prepare for usage-based billing

• Bringing Transparency to Copilot Edits in Excel • Gabi Augustin

• Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI • Lee Reilly

• Start Copilot cloud agent tasks via the REST API

• Copilot cloud agent supports auto model selection

• Introducing Copilot CLI agent and unified sessions view in GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs

• Team-level Copilot usage metrics now available via API

• Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process • Eric Bailey

• Grok Code Fast 1 deprecated

• Copilot Memory supports user preferences for Pro, Pro+ users

• GPT-5.3-Codex is now the base model for Copilot Business and Enterprise

• Introducing WinUI agent plugin for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code • Nikola Metulev

• GA - Automate web and desktop apps with computer use • JoeFernandezMS

• The Coding Harness Behind GitHub Copilot in VS Code

• GitHub Copilot CLI now has a statusline feature! Here’s how to set it up with Oh My Posh • Kayla Cinnamon

• AI Made Us Faster. That Was the Problem • David Fowler

• 📺 Dataverse plugin for coding agents

• 📺 Introducing the VS Code Agents Window (Preview) • Brigit Murtaugh

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | April 2026 • Nick Brady

• 4 ways to build a curated Agent Store and scale agent adoption • AnnaCao

• Foundry Local 1.1: Live Transcription, Embeddings, and Responses API • Sam Kemp

• GridSFM: Small foundation model boosts power grid optimization • Weiwei Yang

• Build AI apps with Azure Cosmos DB: Key trends from Cosmos Conf 2026 • Shireesh Thota

• Advancing enterprise AI: New SAP on Azure announcements from SAP Sapphire 2026 • Wael El Kabbany

• AI Architecture Design • davihern

• GitHub - microsoft/azure-skills: Official agent plugin providing skills and MCP server configurations for Azure scenarios.

• Computer-using agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio are now generally available • Mustapha Lazrek

• 📺 Build and Run Your First Custom Engine Agent with Agent Framework • Ayça Baş

• 📺 Configuring your Copilot Chat declarative agent capabilities • Sébastien Levert

• 📺 Stop Burning RUs: Live AI App Code Review with the Cosmos DB Agent Kit • Andrew Liu

🧩 Business Apps & Low Code

• How Workday and Microsoft are redefining the agentic workplace • Srini Raghavan

• Email Sentiment in Dynamics 365 Customer Service • Ramnath Srinivasan, Megha Gupta and Harish Tyagi

• Agentic Administration: Dataverse Admin Skills now available in Public Preview • Anirudha Bakore

• Closed-loop learning on the Power Apps MCP server • Srihari Srinivasa

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

• What’s new in Power Platform: May 2026 feature update • Tiffany Treacy

• Dynamics 365 AI Credit Estimation: Transform Workforce Planning • Gopal Yuvaraj

• 📺 Building Apps with AI: Agents + Power Platform in Action • Clay Wesener

• 📺 Dataverse Governance for AI-Powered Organizations

• RM481518 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Admins will be able to define rules to automate agent lifecycle management.

• RM561855 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Dynamic Tool Discovery for Declarative Agents and Federated Copilot Connectors

• RM562220 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Supercharge your workflows with computer use

• RM562221 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Use MCP-compliant tools in agent workflows

• RM562222 - Microsoft Copilot Studio: Invoke agents as workflow steps with the agent node

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• MatterSim expands materials discovery with faster simulation and a new multi-task model • Andrew Fowler

• SocialReasoning Bench shows the limits of today’s AI agents • Tyler Payne

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• NEW UPDATES: Administering and Governing Agents whitepaper v3.2 • Joe Unwin

• Defense at AI speed: Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system tops leading industry benchmark • Taesoo Kim

• Accelerating detection engineering using AI-assisted synthetic attack logs generation • Microsoft Defender Security Research Team

• When configuration becomes a vulnerability: Exploitable misconfigurations in AI apps • Microsoft Defender Security Research Team

• Defense in depth for autonomous AI agents • Alyssa Ofstein and Elliot H Omiya

• Defense at AI speed: Microsoft’s new multi-model agentic security system finds 16 new vulnerabilities • Taesoo Kim

• 📺 Agent 365: Governing AI Agents at Enterprise Scale • Shilpi Sinha

• 📺 AI Security & Admin Innovation in Microsoft 365 • Sesha Mani

• 📺 AI-Powered Threat Investigation with Security Copilot & Microsoft Defender • Joey Cruz

• 📺 Built-in Guardrails for Copilot: Data Security in Action • Shilpa Ranganathan

• 📺 Protecting AI Agents with Microsoft Purview • Shilpa Ranganathan

• 📺 Secure Identity at Scale with Security Copilot + Microsoft Entra • Mamta Kumar

• 📺 Using AI to Secure Data: Security Copilot + Microsoft Purview • Vinod Gridhar

• RM502519 - Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Endpoint Data Loss Prevention: Expand protection to Copilot + PC devices for Recall snapshots through custom policies

• RM516569 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot voice support in Word & PowerPoint.

• RM561035 - Microsoft Edge: Allow M365 authentication popups in work profiles

• RM561552 - Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention to restrict processing external emails in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat

• RM561892 - Microsoft Purview: Data Loss Prevention for Microsoft 365 Copilot to safeguard prompts for government clouds

🧑‍🎨 Consumer & Creator

• Study and Learn: AI built for your student • Microsoft Education Team

• Bing MAI Image Creator update

• 📺 Copilot in OneDrive: Get summaries and answers without opening your files • Ivan Figueroa

• 📺 Copilot webinar: How to find files and photos with Copilot in OneDrive (Ep. 8) • Ivan Figueroa

• 📺 Use Copilot in OneDrive to search and restyle your photos • Ivan Figueroa

🌍 From the community

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

💼 Productivity & Work

• A more discoverable Copilot experience in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Clint Covington

• Cursor in Microsoft Teams

• 📺 8 NEW Copilot Features in Word, Excel and PowerPoint! • Scott Brant

• 📺 Copilot Cowork Makes Scheduling Meetings Effortless • Joe Unwin

• 📺 Copilot Cowork: Building Skills and Plugins • Nick Harris

• 📺 Copilot Cowork: Tutorial for Beginners • Lisa Crosbie

• 📺 Microsoft 365 Copilot May 2026 Updates: EVERYTHING You Need to Know • Nick Harris

• 📺 Microsoft Copilot Chat for Students 13+: Setup Guide for IT Admins • Mike Tholfsen

• 📺 My 5 Favorite Microsoft Copilot Tips to Get More Done • Mike Tholfsen

• 📺 My 5 Favorite Microsoft Copilot Tips to Get More Done • Mike Tholfsen

👩‍💻 Coding & Developer Tools

• 6 Multi-Agent Orchestration Design Patterns Every Developer Should Know • Chris Pietschmann

• 📺 Copilot CLI Tutorial #2 - Commands • Net Ninja

• 📺 Copilot Studio Plugin for Claude Code and GitHub Copilot • Giorgio Ughini and Eric Scherlinger

• 📺 I Tested GitHub’s New Copilot App So You Don’t Have To • Petter Arnesen

🏗️ AI Apps, Agents & Platform

• This is why you should start using Azure SRE Agents! 😍 • Brian Veldman

• Introducing Microsoft Agent Framework: An Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI • Jamie Maguire

• 📺 AI-901 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals Study Cram • John Savill

• 📺 Building AI-Powered SPFx Apps with Copilot Chat API • Siddharth Vaghasia

• 📺 I automated my Prompt of the Week slide with one skill — Cowork is wild • Rabia Williams

• 📺 Microsoft Foundry, Explained: Tour the Portal & Build a Real Agent • Frankie Riviera

• 📺 NEW Workflows Feature In Copilot Studio (20-Min Full Demo) • Matthew Devaney

• 📺 NEW Workflows Feature In Copilot Studio (20-Min Full Demo) • Matthew Devaney

• RM561326 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot People Connectors introduces people data ingestions with differentiated access control

📊 Data, Analytics & Knowledge

• RM508527 - Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365): Copilot Search Matches on People’s Department

🛡️ Security, Governance & Admin

• Are AI Agents Changing the SOC? • Mike Palitto

• Fix Copilot Oversharing Fast With Sensitivity Labels • Nikki Chapple

• Deploy Microsoft Purview DLP For Copilot Security • Nikki Chapple

• 📺 AI Prompt Injection Attacks Are Easy [How To Stop This] • Ru Campbell

• 📺 How I Helped My Customers Understand their AI Usage • Bram de Jager

• 📺 How to Remove Copilot Apps from Windows 11 • Steve Weiner

• 📺 Using Purview to Prevent Oversharing with AI Services • Viktor Hedberg

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