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Natalie Guevara summarizes GitHub’s May 2026 availability incidents and the reliability work underway, including moving parts of the monolith to Azure, isolating database domains, and hardening GitHub Actions and Copilot services against cascading failures.

Laura Jiang announces Copilot Autofix in limited private preview for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, which generates suggested fixes for supported CodeQL alerts and turns them into pull requests. The post explains what’s covered in preview, how the workflow fits into existing review gates, and how usage is billed via Azure.

SindhuBharadwaj introduces a Fabric-first migration flow that lets you mount an Azure Data Factory instance inside a Fabric workspace and migrate selected pipelines without switching portals. The post outlines the migration steps, supported connection/authentication mappings, and the validation work to do before re-enabling triggers in production.

Jeffrey Fritz announces the .NET Day on Agentic Modernization livestream (June 16, 2026), focused on practical ways to modernize existing .NET applications without a full rewrite. The agenda highlights GitHub Copilot-assisted modernization, Aspire-based approaches, migration of WinForms and line-of-business apps, and adding agentic/AI capabilities.

The Microsoft Foundry Team announces Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) is now available in Microsoft Foundry, and explains how it’s used to power autonomous agents in Foundry Agent Service and GitHub Copilot, with an emphasis on enterprise guardrails, governance controls, and token-based pricing.

Dan Hellem and Andrew Brenner announce a limited public preview that brings GitHub Copilot code reviews into Azure Repos pull requests, and walk through how to enable it at the organization, repository, and user levels. The post also documents preview guardrails and how token usage is billed via GitHub AI credits to Azure Cost Management.

Jon Galloway recaps Microsoft Build 2026 with the main developer announcements across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, Azure, Windows, Visual Studio, and .NET—highlighting agentic workflows, new tooling, governance specs, and a curated set of sessions and hubs to follow up on what shipped.

Daniel Roth rounds up the key .NET sessions from Microsoft Build 2026, highlighting what’s new in .NET 11 and C# (including union types), plus sessions on agentic web apps, AI building blocks for .NET, .NET MAUI on-device AI, and tooling like dotnetup.

davidwright, Arnaud Lheureux, and Suzanne Daniels explain why architecture and governance frameworks only help when they actively change delivery decisions. Using Git-Ape as the example, they show how to turn Azure Well-Architected, Azure Policy (including NIST mappings), and CAF guidance into repeatable repo-driven assessments with prioritized findings tied to code and policy.

Dom Robinson, samkemp, and Inbal Sagiv announce Foundry Local 1.2.0 and preview Foundry Local on Azure Local, focusing on running AI on-device and at the edge with better transcription, broader hardware support, improved cancellation, and simpler acceleration across Windows and Linux.

Sebastian Kohlmeier outlines what’s new in Microsoft Foundry observability at Build 2026, focusing on production-grade tracing, evaluations, and optimization for AI agents across multiple frameworks. The post also introduces ROI tracking for agents, tying operational signals to business value via the Foundry portal and APIs.

Swetha Machanavajhala announces new Azure Translator Document Translation capabilities from Microsoft Build, including GA support for translating standalone images (sync and batch), improved batch PDF translation using Azure AI Document Intelligence, and new structured format support (DITA XML and XLIFF 2.0), plus upcoming LLM-powered translation options.

arindamc explains how the Mirrored Database Change Feed connector (Preview) streams Delta Change Data Feed updates from Microsoft Fabric Mirroring into Fabric Eventstreams, enabling low-latency, event-driven processing and routing to destinations like Eventhouse, Activator, and Lakehouse without custom Spark polling jobs.

Shawn Henry rounds up the BUILD 2026 announcements for Microsoft Agent Framework, covering the new Agent Harness for production-grade agent execution, Foundry Hosted Agents for deploying and operating agents at scale, and CodeAct (Hyperlight) to reduce tool-calling latency and token usage, with examples in .NET and Python.

Manoj Bableshwar introduces Foundry Managed Compute, a new Microsoft Foundry capability for deploying open-source and custom AI models on elastic GPU capacity with Foundry-managed runtimes, unified endpoints/SDKs, built-in routing for cache efficiency, and Azure-native governance, networking, and observability.

Luis Quintanilla introduces Agent Optimizer for Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, a closed-loop workflow that evaluates hosted agents against pass/fail criteria, generates improved configurations (prompts, skills, model choices, and tool descriptions), and helps teams promote the best candidate to production using azd.

Lewis Liu introduces new agent memory capabilities in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service aimed at making enterprise agents more reliable and easier to operate, including procedural memory, a portal-based memory management UI, TTL controls, multimodal memory, and explicit “remember/forget” commands, plus benchmarking via STATE-Bench.

Linda Li and Maria Naggaga announce new preview capabilities in Azure AI Foundry for scaling production agents: Toolboxes features like Tool Search, Skills, Work IQ/Fabric IQ, Browser Automation, and managed MCP servers, plus Routines in Foundry Agent Service for trigger-based agent runs with governance via Guardrails.

Amanda Foster announces new Microsoft Foundry capabilities for getting AI agents into production across an enterprise: publishing Foundry agents into Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams, a new “autopilot agent” model with its own identity, and incoming Agent-to-Agent (A2A) endpoints for cross-agent interoperability.

Microsoft Defender Security Research Team breaks down “Miasma,” a large-scale npm supply-chain compromise that abused a GitHub Actions OIDC publishing workflow to ship trojanized @redhat-cloud-services packages. It explains the multi-stage obfuscation, credential theft targets (including Azure tokens), worm-like propagation, and concrete hunting and mitigation steps.

Peyton Fraser, Joe Filcik, and Ronak Chokshi summarize the Build 2026 updates for Azure Content Understanding, including GPT-5.2 support, first-class integration in the Microsoft Foundry portal, broader native file-type ingestion, and new integrations for agentic and Markdown-centric workflows (Agent Framework, LangChain, and MarkItDown).

Tsuyoshi Ushio introduces azure-functions-skills (public preview), a plugin + CLI that wires AI coding agents (including GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code) with MCP config, hooks, and playbooks to scaffold, validate, and deploy Azure Functions using current best practices like managed identity and Key Vault references.

Jay Parikh outlines Microsoft’s approach to an enterprise “agent platform” that treats AI as a production system: build agents in GitHub, ground them with Microsoft IQ, run them in Foundry, govern them with Agent 365 and the Microsoft Security stack, and continuously improve via evals, traces, tuning, and feedback loops.

Anna Hoffman summarizes Microsoft SQL announcements from Build 2026, focused on an “agentic” database developer workflow powered by GitHub Copilot across VS Code and SSMS, plus Azure SQL Hyperscale capabilities and new security and streaming features.

stclarke reports on a Mayo Clinic and Microsoft collaboration to build a purpose-built frontier AI model for healthcare, combining Mayo’s de-identified clinical data and longitudinal insights with Microsoft’s AI and cloud capabilities, with planned availability via Azure AI Foundry APIs.

Aseem Datar announces Microsoft Discovery general availability and a preview of the Microsoft Discovery desktop app, focusing on how the platform supports governed, reproducible agentic AI workflows for scientific and engineering R&D across evidence, tools, and iterative experimentation.

Naomi Moneypenny lays out a practical model lifecycle for Microsoft Foundry: how to pick models by workload fit, validate them with your own evals and datasets, control latency and cost, and operate safely in production with monitoring, governance, and rollback.

Aleš Holeček outlines Microsoft’s Build 2026 announcements for securing AI-driven software delivery, spanning agentic vulnerability discovery, developer-focused remediation workflows, governance for local and cloud agents, and model integrity checks before deployment.

tschuchman outlines what Microsoft Foundry is shipping at Build 2026 to help teams move AI agents from prototype to production, covering Agent Framework updates, Toolboxes and MCP-based tool access, hosted runtimes with memory and isolation, and an operations loop with tracing, evaluation, and optimizer-driven improvements.

Sarah Bird introduces Microsoft’s “open trust stack” for AI agents: ASSERT for policy-driven evaluations and the Agent Control Specification (ACS) for portable runtime controls. The post also covers Foundry’s guardrail recommendations, production observability features (tracing, evaluators, optimization), and new security capabilities like Purview-backed DLP for agent interactions.

Pablo Castro announces Foundry IQ updates for grounding AI agents with unified enterprise knowledge, including a serverless retrieval option, new multi-source knowledge connectors, GA knowledge bases with an MCP server, retrieval quality improvements, and preview security and ingestion features for production deployments.

Mohamed Elghazali walks through Azure Translator’s adaptive translation workflow in Microsoft Foundry, showing how to improve domain-specific terminology using a few reference sentence pairs or a reusable adaptive dataset, without training a custom model.

Mohamed Elghazali announces the GA release of Azure Translator API version 2026-06-06 and explains how a unified endpoint can route between NMT and LLM-based translation, with adaptive customization options to control terminology, tone, and style for multilingual applications.

Nick Brady recaps the Microsoft Build 2026 updates to Microsoft Foundry for teams building production AI agents, covering hosted runtimes, Toolboxes and MCP connectivity, memory, Voice Live, Foundry IQ knowledge bases, new model and compute options, and new evaluation, governance, and observability capabilities.

Arun Ulag summarizes Microsoft Build 2026 announcements focused on building agentic applications on Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Databases, including the Rayfin SDK/CLI, the Azure HorizonDB PostgreSQL preview, Cosmos DB updates for local development and agent memory, and Fabric IQ/OneLake improvements for governed, AI-ready data context.

Arun Kishan and Selim Bilgin announce an early access preview of Azure Cobalt 200 Arm-based VMs, positioned for Linux-based, scale-out agentic AI workloads. The post highlights performance uplifts versus Cobalt 100, new VM families and specs, Arm ecosystem compatibility, and security improvements like memory encryption enabled by default.

Tina Manghnani and Pranav Pandit announce Microsoft Build updates for Hosted Agents in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, including source-code deployments via azd, built-in Content Safety guardrails, real-time voice support with WebSocket/WebRTC, and an Agent Optimizer that automates evaluation and prompt/config improvements for production agents.

Shawn Henry shares a curated list of Microsoft Build 2026 sessions focused on Microsoft Agent Framework and Microsoft Foundry, spanning multi-agent patterns, production-scale agent lifecycles, governance and risk controls, and observability/evals across open standards and tools.

Nick Brady’s May 2026 digest covers Microsoft Foundry updates across models, evaluations, networking, and SDKs—highlighting trace-based evaluation for agents on any cloud, new catalog models (Grok 4.3, DeepSeek V4), GPT-5 reinforcement fine-tuning at gated GA, Managed VNET GA, Foundry Local 1.1/1.2, and new skills/toolboxes support in azure-ai-projects.

mamathews rounds up May 2026 community picks from Microsoft MVPs and Fabric Super Users, spanning Power BI/VertiPaq performance, Fabric lakehouse design choices, Fabric Data Factory foundations with ADLS, NLP embeddings in Fabric, capacity cost optimization, Logic Apps-based capacity scheduling, and SharePoint list mirroring into Fabric.