Browse Machine Learning News (199)

MichalBar introduces a preview redesign of Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Dashboards tile editing, adding Copilot-assisted visual authoring alongside a more code-friendly KQL workflow. The post walks through creating a visual from a prompt or query, iterating with history, and testing parameterized queries directly in the editor.

MichalBar introduces the Time Series Visualization (Preview) for Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Dashboards, focusing on how to explore multivariate time series data with series search and grouping, synchronized time-range navigation, and visual customization options like adaptive scaling and linear/log axis modes.

MichalBar announces general availability of Live Refresh for Real-Time Dashboards in Microsoft Fabric, an event-driven refresh model that updates visuals when new data is ingested. The post explains how it reduces polling overhead, supports pausing/resuming during investigation, and provides configuration options like fallback refresh intervals.

analyticanna introduces Rayfin (Preview), an open-source SDK and CLI for turning content like markdown into shareable, hosted sites deployed as first-class items in Microsoft Fabric, with stable URLs, workspace-based access control, and data captured into a SQL database in Fabric for use across OneLake workloads.

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.

Aaron Merrill announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric’s OneLake catalog that lets admins assign, edit, and remove workspace role memberships across multiple workspaces from the Secure tab, helping teams standardize access controls and reduce drift as Fabric estates scale.

Sharlkaur introduces a preview workflow for AI-authored Power BI reports in Microsoft Fabric, using Skills for Fabric and the Power BI authoring plugin optimized for GitHub Copilot CLI. The post shows how agents can generate PBIR-based reports from prompts, iterate using screenshots, and publish to Fabric as part of an end-to-end agentic analytics flow.

shiv_narayanan announces general availability of SharePoint and OneDrive Shortcuts in Microsoft Fabric OneLake, explaining how Fabric can reference Microsoft 365 files in place, optionally transform supported formats into Delta tables, and use Entra ID-based identities for production authentication and scale.

tinotereshko rounds up the Build 2026 announcements for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, covering GPU-based query acceleration, configurable data retention and time travel, SQL editor upgrades (including inline Copilot chat), and new T-SQL capabilities. The post also highlights DevOps-focused features like REST APIs and Git/DacFx-based schema deployments for the SQL analytics endpoint.

miguel shares benchmark results for Microsoft Fabric Dataflow Gen2 (CI/CD), explaining which performance lever to use (Fast Copy, Modern Evaluator, partitioned compute, staging) depending on whether your bottleneck is ingestion throughput, transformation-heavy Power Query (M), or parallel file processing.

prl announces enhancements to the Migration Assistant for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, focusing on making enterprise data warehouse migrations less manual and easier to execute with a more guided workflow.

miguel announces Microsoft Build updates for Microsoft Fabric Dataflow Gen2 and Power Query, focusing on scaling low-code data transformation with Spark-backed execution, improving reuse of query logic across dataflows, and modernizing the Power Query “Get Data” experience in Power BI Desktop.

WillT announces the general availability of Microsoft Fabric Operations agent, describing how it uses LLM-driven rule generation plus Real-Time Intelligence monitoring to detect issues, ask clarifying questions, and (with approval) run remediation actions like pipelines, notebooks, UDFs, and Power Automate workflows, with tracing and governance built in.

makromer recaps the Build 2026 updates for Microsoft Fabric Data Factory orchestration, focusing on new pipeline capabilities like human-in-the-loop approvals, conditional retries, refresh activities for Materialized Lake View and SQL endpoints, a modernized pipeline canvas, expanded Variable Libraries (including Airflow), and in-workspace migration from Azure Data Factory.

IgalAmster announces the general availability of Graph in Microsoft Fabric, a relationship-first graph capability that runs natively on OneLake. The post explains how explicit graph modeling and GQL queries support enterprise-scale reasoning for analytics, ontologies, and Fabric IQ scenarios, including security and impact analysis use cases.

GEGUIRGU announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric where Business Events are automatically stored in Eventhouse and can be queried with KQL and visualized in Real-Time Dashboards, enabling near real-time operational monitoring and historical analysis without extra configuration.

GEGUIRGU announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric where Activator can publish Business Events, turning alerts from Power BI, Real-Time Dashboards, KQL queries, and Fabric Warehouse SQL queries into structured, governed signals stored in Eventhouse for discovery, routing, and analysis across teams.

maraki announces an early access preview of GPU-accelerated Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, explaining how eligible T-SQL query plan fragments can be offloaded to NVIDIA GPUs to improve latency and predictability under high concurrency, without query rewrites or new systems to manage.

Teddyb introduces Microsoft Fabric Skills, an open-source set of packaged instructions and API patterns that help GitHub Copilot and other AI coding tools use Fabric correctly. The post explains what the skill bundles contain, how to install them via Copilot plugins or by cloning the repo, and how auth/token audiences are handled across Fabric workloads.

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.

murray-kp rounds up the June 2026 Microsoft Fabric release, covering OneLake storage lifecycle controls, expanded lineage for materialized lake views, major data agent updates (service principals, observability, NL2SQL, code interpreter), warehouse and SQL endpoint improvements, real-time intelligence enhancements, and stronger CI/CD and security options across integrations.

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.

FaisalMohamood summarizes Microsoft Build 2026 announcements for Fabric Data Factory, focusing on new diagnostics, secure private-network ingestion, expanded mirroring, dbt and Airflow improvements, and “agent-ready” capabilities (skills + MCP) to help teams build AI-ready data pipelines on Microsoft Fabric.

Matteo Interlandi summarizes CoddSpeed, the GPU-accelerated execution engine inside Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, and explains the core architectural choices (compute and data abstraction layers), benchmark results on TPC-H and customer workloads, and what it took to harden a research prototype into a production-grade engine.

Chafia Aouissi introduces Fabric IQ as a shared semantic/ontology layer in Microsoft Fabric for grounding enterprise AI agents in governed business context, highlighting MCP connectivity, Foundry and Copilot Studio integrations, and new governance and modeling capabilities including Graph in Fabric GA.

yitzhak announces the general availability of Fabric IQ in Microsoft Fabric and explains how it acts as a shared context layer—combining OneLake, Real-Time Intelligence, semantic models, and ontologies—so AI agents and real-time applications can interpret signals consistently and take governed actions in production.

shireesht introduces Rayfin, an open-source SDK and CLI for defining and deploying a complete application backend directly onto Microsoft Fabric, with governance and security inherited from the platform. The post explains the code-first workflow, Fabric deployment model, and how app data lands in OneLake for analytics and AI workloads.

bogdanc summarizes Microsoft Build 2026 announcements across Fabric Analytics, covering Spark and Lakehouse performance updates, new Fabric Data Warehouse capabilities (including GPU-accelerated queries), Power BI semantic and agent features, and how Fabric IQ connects governed analytics to developer workflows via GitHub Copilot CLI.

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.

lrtoyou1223 announces the May 2026 on-premises data gateway release (v3000.318), adding admin consent controls for gateway diagnostics and integrating gateway logs into the Dataflow Gen2 run experience to speed up troubleshooting across dataflow logic, connectivity, authentication, and downstream systems.

Roberto Cervantes Rivero outlines the latest Microsoft Fabric Business Events updates, focusing on how Eventstream and Activator can publish governed events, how Eventhouse stores them for KQL-based analysis, and how the new consumption model charges publishers and consumers based on event operations and listener hours.

Kiefer Sheldon explains a Fabric-based pattern for showing real-time, in-report alerts inside Power BI without email. The approach treats notifications as data, writes them to a Fabric SQL database, mirrors them into a Lakehouse, and surfaces them through a semantic model so each report can display targeted alerts.

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.

stclarke introduces Data Formulator 0.7, an open-source, AI-powered workspace for enterprise data analytics that focuses on governed data connectivity, context-aware agents, and iterative visualization refinement across long-running analysis workflows.

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.

Miles Cole introduces Incremental Liquid Clustering in Microsoft Fabric Runtime 2.0, explaining how OPTIMIZE now rewrites only the files that actually need reclustering or compaction. The post includes benchmark results across common ingestion patterns and shows the Spark SQL commands to use incremental clustering (default) or force a full recluster.

Xu Jiang announces a preview enhanced Azure IoT Hub connector for Microsoft Fabric Eventstream that preserves IoT Hub system metadata (like device identity, enqueue time, and auth method) alongside payloads, enabling richer real-time analytics, monitoring, routing, and downstream querying in Eventhouse with KQL.

Haresh Gowri Sankar announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric Shortcut Transformations that ingests Excel workbooks into Delta tables with a low/no-code wizard. It focuses on multi-sheet handling, schema inference and drift controls, continuous sync, and monitoring so recurring Excel drops can feed a Fabric Lakehouse reliably.

Ye Xu announces general availability of Change Data Capture (CDC) in Microsoft Fabric Data Factory Copy job for SQL estate replication, plus expanded SCD Type 2 support to preserve full change history and handle deletes as soft deletes across more destinations.

Santhosh Kumar Ravindran introduces Custom Live Pools (preview) for Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering, a way to schedule and manage ready-to-run Spark capacity. The post explains how pools integrate with Environment artifacts for compute and library configuration, plus monitoring and lifecycle controls for predictable data engineering runs.