Azure Updates
- Only believe what you can validate: a verification framework for agentic AI
- Try the new SqlClient and Retry connections natively
- Advertised gateway prefixes in Azure
- Announcing Confidential Live Migration in Azure
- 🚀 Foundry Toolkit for VS Code — August 2026 Update
- Zonal redundancy in API management Standard v2
- Introducing Cohere Parse V5
- Cohere Parse v5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry
- Azure Developer CLI (azd) – August 2026
- VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ: Developer Takeaways and Must-Watch Sessions
- Manage and retrieve credentials securely inside Browser Automation Tool (BAT) using Azure Key Vault
- Azure DevOps in the GitHub Copilot App
- Understanding the Standard HDD I/O unit size update and what it means for your workloads
- Stop restricting the agent. Start restricting its environment.
- Grok 4.6 comes to Microsoft Foundry Models: Built for long-horizon reasoning and complex workflows
- Retirement of Microsoft HPC Pack
- I Need My CI/CD Pipeline to Access Cosmos DB Without Using a Secret
- The Visual Studio Debugger Agentic Workflow Gets a Test-Driven Upgrade
- Azure DNS + Traffic Manager linked records
- Copilot Code Reviews for Azure Repos (public preview)
- Maia 200: Software-defined dataflow and all-Ethernet networking for efficient inference on Azure
- New Azure SQL Foundations video series with GitHub samples
- Microsoft is headed to VMware Explore 2026 in Las Vegas
- Cost Management with Azure Resource Manager MCP
- Tracking Batch node state and duration in Log Analytics
- The Complete Guide to Azure Databricks Cost Optimization
- Azure Copilot Introduces Direct Access to Agents
- Start here: Azure SQL Foundations series
- Visual Studio August Update — Work Smarter Across Models and Branches
- Azure SRE Agent: Introducing Live Reports
- Azure SRE Agent VNet integration is now generally available
- Try Azure SRE Agent with no always-on charges
- Consume Dataverse MCP server in Microsoft Foundry-Bringing business data to AI Agents
- PowerToys 0.101 is here: Window Hopper, Insider updates, and Command Palette compact mode
- Unlocking the Power of AI for Every Developer in Visual Studio with Bring your Own Model
- Benchmark Retrieval Patterns for Copilot Studio and Foundry IQ
- Unified AI Defense: Security Copilot, Project Perception, and MDASH
- Powering Memory in Foundry Agent Service, with Azure Cosmos DB
- Enabling A2A endpoint and Agent Card for a Hosted Agent
- Now in public preview: Azure Virtual Desktop regional host pools
- Building Production-Ready AI Agents in Microsoft Foundry: 10 Lessons Learned
GitHub Updates
- OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
- GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Automate Dependabot pull request triage
- How to evaluate LLMs before production
- Your alt text passes automated checks. That doesn’t mean it’s any good.
