Browse Machine Learning News (117)

Naorbt introduces generally available authoring capabilities for Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Dashboards. Design Tiles provide context and structure, multi-KPI displays related metrics from one query, and configurable KPI styles show values against thresholds and targets. The article explains how to combine these features into readable operational dashboards.

goupadhy outlines the October 2026 on-premises data gateway release for Microsoft Fabric, including accessibility fixes, preserved Power Query settings, and improved diagnostics. The update also introduces preview administration APIs for tenant-wide connection control and provides guidance for testing releases and upgrading production gateway clusters safely.

Alper explains how Microsoft Fabric’s preview React visualization libraries support analytics apps built with AI coding agents. Using Vega-Lite specifications and shared data, theming, and interaction contracts, the components provide reusable charts and grids with formatting, scrolling, tooltips, and consistent styling rather than requiring each app to recreate these behaviors.

sbaynes describes using the Microsoft Discovery app to adapt insect-monitoring systems for the Asian citrus psyllid, a pest that spreads citrus greening disease. The case study covers grounded AI agents, experimental design, permitting, and synthetic biometric data for preliminary edge classifiers, with scientists reviewing decisions throughout the workflow.

Mariyaali introduces preview support for Fabric Data Warehouse in workspace monitoring. Completed distributed queries flow into a workspace-scoped KQL database, where administrators can compare performance, investigate failures, and build dashboards. Shared query identifiers connect workspace telemetry to Query Insights for deeper investigation within the affected warehouse.

Ben Steenhoek and Ulugbek Abdullaev explain how configurable eagerness lets paid GitHub Copilot subscribers adjust inline suggestions in VS Code. They describe the low, medium, and high modes, the training approach behind them, reward-hacking mitigations, and experimental results showing how suggestion frequency and size change.

sbaynes introduces Flint-interactive, a language that helps AI agents generate interactive data visualizations (not just static charts) using high-level semantic events and update operators, so users can click, filter, zoom, and link interactions across charts, text, tables, and app state.

arindamc introduces Schema-aware Fabric Eventstreams (Preview), which lets Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence streams preserve event “shape” so teams can explore, classify, and process multiple event types in a single live stream without forcing everything into one wide schema.

MichalBar introduces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Dashboards that uses Copilot to generate purpose-built custom visuals. By describing an operational question in natural language, dashboard authors can have Copilot create both the KQL query and an HTML-based visualization directly as a new dashboard tile.

sbaynes reports on Microsoft Research work proving the KLS conjecture, a long-standing result in high-dimensional geometry with implications for sampling, optimization, and randomized algorithms. The post also describes a human-directed, agentic AI workflow used to explore candidate proof paths and support derivations and verification.

prl explains the preview incremental migration workflow in Migration Assistant for Microsoft Fabric Warehouse, focusing on migrating database object definitions in phases, re-running migrations without recreating the destination, and handling naming conflicts safely. The post also clarifies how object migration differs from data loading and where Data Factory copy jobs fit in.

prl introduces the preview of Fabric Migration Assistant for migrating Teradata workloads to Fabric Data Warehouse, focusing on translating metadata and SQL/BTEQ into Fabric-compatible T-SQL, reviewing exceptions, and choosing practical data-movement and validation approaches to reduce manual migration effort.

QixiaoWang introduces the Fabric Notebook Toolkit (FNTK) preview, a CLI that lets coding agents interact with live Microsoft Fabric notebooks—reading and editing cells, running code, and pulling outputs and Spark diagnostics—so iterative debugging and validation can happen directly from an agent-driven terminal workflow.

Alicia Li summarizes Q3 2026 updates to Microsoft Fabric Eventstreams, focusing on new managed and custom connectors, CDC ingestion from operational databases, schema registry and schema-aware processing for mixed event types, in-flight enrichment with Delta tables, improved monitoring and diagnostics, and stronger deployment and networking controls.

tushar-msft summarizes January–August 2026 Graph Query Language (GQL) updates in Microsoft Fabric Graph, covering new path-finding and traversal controls, path inspection functions, multi-stage query composition, richer aggregation options, and added value/text functions (casting, ranges, Unicode normalization, and regex helpers).

jovanpop-msft announces four preview T-SQL enhancements in Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse—GROUP BY ALL, ORDER BY ALL, QUALIFY, and the FROM ... SELECT query format—aimed at reducing repetitive SQL, simplifying maintenance when projections change, and making analytical query logic easier to read.

jovanpop-msft announces a preview update for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse and the SQL analytics endpoint: new and enhanced T-SQL analytical functions for distribution analysis, including exact and approximate median/quantile calculations and expanded percentile aggregate syntax.

jovanpop-msft introduces preview support for calling Fabric User Data Functions from T-SQL in Fabric Data Warehouse. The integration extends warehouse queries with custom Python logic for data enrichment, external API calls, and secret retrieval, with an example that calculates and stores IPv6 network prefixes for downstream analytics.

Amir Jafari announces the deprecation of the Fabric data agent “custom tool” integration in Microsoft Foundry and explains how to migrate to the Fabric IQ (OneLake Catalog) tool, including portal steps and an SDK/REST approach using MCP endpoints and Entra-based authentication.

midesa announces general availability of advanced NL2SQL and advanced DAX generation for Microsoft Fabric data agents, focused on improving query correctness for enterprise schemas. The post explains the agent’s explore-then-generate approach, new creator configurations (schema descriptions and topics), and internal benchmark results showing higher accuracy and lower latency.

sbaynes interviews Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 lead race strategist Joey McMillan on how the team uses Microsoft Azure—especially Azure Batch—to run large-scale race simulations quickly enough to influence live, race-day strategy decisions under changing weather and track conditions.

t-dmarcovich1 introduces Fabric Policies (preview), a governance feature for Microsoft Fabric that lets tenant and capacity admins control which actions are allowed for specific users and workspaces, with centralized management and auditing.

sukkaur announces a preview feature that enables workspace-level Private Link connectivity for SQL database in Microsoft Fabric, aimed at tightening network access and reducing exposure by keeping database traffic on private networking paths.

hareshgowri announces a preview feature in Microsoft Fabric that lets you ingest CSV and Parquet files directly from OneLake into Materialized Lake Views, turning the bronze layer into a declarative step. The post shows the SQL syntax, schema modes, lineage tracking, and refresh options for building end-to-end medallion pipelines.

mk_sunitha introduces Fabric App functions (preview), a TypeScript-based serverless capability for Fabric Apps that lets builders run secure server-side logic, use application authentication to access downstream resources, and manage secrets safely. The post also shows how to scaffold, debug, and deploy functions, including using GitHub Copilot in VS Code.

sergeig888 announces the general availability of Microsoft Fabric “My workspace” governance improvements, including new admin REST APIs for granting and revoking temporary admin access and guidance for restoring orphaned workspaces after a user is deleted in Microsoft Entra ID.

robece-msft announces updates to Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Hub, including generally available Business Events and new Fabric Events capabilities. The post explains how governed, versioned event contracts help teams validate integrations early, route and transform signals, retain events for analysis in Eventhouse, and react to operational changes like capacity pressure and item lifecycle events.

sbaynes introduces StudentSim, a research system that trains personalized AI “student simulators” from de-identified learner records to evaluate and improve AI tutors before running costly human studies. The post explains how the simulators are measured, trained, and used as a feedback signal for tutor optimization across chess, writing, and math.

pankajarora announces a preview refresh of the Microsoft Fabric Capacity Metrics app, adding new health, compute, and storage visuals plus an item details page to help capacity admins spot throttling, investigate high CU usage, and review 14-day item history across Fabric capacities.

TwinkleCyril announces general availability of Custom SQL Pools in Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, explaining how admins can isolate workloads, cap compute allocation per pool, and classify requests by statement type (SELECT vs NONSELECT) to protect interactive reporting from heavy ingestion and transformation activity.

sbaynes describes how the Microsoft Discovery app can help scientists and data teams design an inspectable, reproducible bioinformatics workflow for phage therapy research, from profiling antibiotic resistance and bacterial defenses to searching environmental metagenomic data and ranking candidate phages with traceable evidence and validation steps.

sbaynes introduces Quine, a Microsoft Research system that combines a multimodal “world model” of biology with an interactive harness that connects models, scientific tools, literature, and wet-lab workflows to speed up biological discovery and hypothesis testing.

bogdanc summarizes the Fabric Analytics announcements from FabCon Europe 2026, covering Fabric IQ’s GA in Copilot experiences, new Power BI app-building capabilities, GPU-accelerated query execution for Fabric Data Warehouse, and expanded governance controls (labels, DLP, and Copilot restrictions) across the Fabric stack.

Arun Ulag summarizes the FabCon and SQLCon Barcelona 2026 announcements across Microsoft Fabric and Azure SQL, focusing on how Fabric IQ, OneLake, and new agent experiences aim to provide governed business context for Copilot, analytics, and data/AI applications, plus new observability and database management capabilities.

shireesht summarizes FabCon EU and SQLCon 2026 announcements across Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft SQL, including Fabric Apps for building governed data-backed apps, Database Hub for centralized estate management, and preview “database agents” plus Azure SQL updates like DiskANN vector indexing for RAG scenarios.

Faisal Mohamood and Bogdan Crivat outline a guided modernization path from Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Analytics to Microsoft Fabric, covering the new “view in Fabric” upgrade experience, migration assessment and incremental upgrades, and migration assistants for Spark and dedicated SQL pools into Fabric Data Engineering and Fabric Data Warehouse.

Dipti Borkar summarizes the FabCon and SQLCon Barcelona 2026 announcements for Microsoft OneLake, covering new ways to share governed context (IQ sharing), connect external platforms via shortcuts and mirroring, use Table APIs for Iceberg/Delta access, and strengthen governance with catalog, policies, and OneLake security.

murray-kp rounds up the September 2026 Microsoft Fabric release, covering major updates across governance, CI/CD and Git integration, OneLake catalog and APIs, data engineering and Spark runtime improvements, warehouse features, real-time intelligence (Eventstream/Eventhouse/Activator), and Fabric IQ/MCP capabilities for agent-driven workflows.

kimani announces a set of Microsoft Fabric platform updates aimed at running Fabric estates at scale, covering new observability and monitoring experiences, repeatable delivery features (deployment plans, bulk definition APIs, Git enhancements), OneLake catalog discovery (including Copilot CLI), capacity controls and billing options, and expanded governance and security controls.

diptiborkar announces new Planning capabilities in Microsoft Fabric IQ, focused on building budgets and forecasts directly on governed Fabric data and Power BI semantic models. The post covers tighter Fabric IQ integration, a new native planning engine, event-driven automation, embedding planning into org apps, and governance/billing controls.