Browse Machine Learning News (113)

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.

yitzhak outlines how Microsoft Fabric is positioning Real-Time Intelligence and Fabric IQ as the “live” data and semantic foundation for trusted AI in enterprises, then walks through new preview features like Observability Insights, Operations Agent/Investigator, Eventstreams improvements, ontology tooling, and governance capabilities.

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.

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.

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.

sapatney announces major updates to Fabric Apps and the Rayfin framework, adding first-class backend capabilities (functions, storage, and databases), new Fabric data connectors (including semantic models with DAX), built-in app metrics, and a clearer enterprise access model based on Entra authentication and delegated identity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Faisal Mohamood summarizes the FabCon/SQLCon Barcelona 2026 announcements for Fabric Data Factory, covering new mirroring sources, multicloud data distribution improvements, faster and more reusable transformations (Power Query, Dataflow Gen2, notebooks, dbt), richer monitoring, and MCP-based AI assistance across authoring and operations.

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.

goupadhy announces the September 2026 on-premises data gateway release (v3000.334), highlighting a new Soft Delete recovery window, security dependency updates (including Log4j 2.26.1 and a fix for CVE-2026-18401), and compatibility alignment with the September 2026 Power BI Desktop query runtime.

Simon Frost explains how the Microsoft Discovery app and Premonition Insights on Azure can speed up exploratory analysis of wastewater metagenomics, while keeping human scientific judgment in control. The post walks through an end-to-end workflow: literature grounding, taxonomic filtering, weather-data enrichment, phylogenetic verification, and interactive dashboards.

goupadhy announces a preview soft-delete lifecycle for standard-mode on-premises data gateways in Microsoft Fabric, letting tenant and gateway admins restore deleted gateway clusters and members within a 30-day retention window instead of having to recreate them after accidental deletion.

Michaela Isaacs announces general availability of Mirroring for Google BigQuery in Microsoft Fabric, positioning it as a supported way to bring BigQuery data into Fabric for broader analytics work without building or maintaining ingestion pipelines.

Michaela Isaacs introduces pq-adbc-advisor, a self-serve notebook-based scanner that inventories Microsoft Fabric workspace items still using legacy ODBC drivers and helps teams plan the ODBC-to-ADBC cutover. It produces a per-item impact report, classifies cutover risk, and recommends concrete fixes to validate ahead of connector-specific deadlines.

Mariyaali announces the general availability of the SQL DW operations skill for Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, which lets teams use natural-language prompts (for example via GitHub Copilot CLI) to run bounded, read-only diagnostics and get structured findings, evidence, and recommended next steps for common warehouse incidents.

yaronc announces a preview Fabric REST API that exposes item lineage as a dependency graph you can query from code, enabling automated impact analysis, documentation/catalog scenarios, CI/CD checks, and richer context for AI agents that need to reason about upstream sources and downstream consumers.

Santhosh_Ravin1 announces a preview update to Microsoft Fabric’s Spark Native Execution Engine that adds native JSON reading and parsing. The post explains why JSON parsing often becomes a pipeline bottleneck in lakehouse workloads, and how keeping JSON in a columnar native path can improve end-to-end Spark job performance.

Juan Montes profiles Kinaxis’ Maestro platform and how it uses Azure (including AKS, Databricks, Azure OpenAI, Cosmos DB, and Azure AI Content Safety) to run large-scale supply chain scenario modeling, forecasting, and agentic AI experiences. The piece also touches on Kinaxis’ internal use of GitHub Copilot for an agentic, PR-driven development workflow.

nschachter announces a Microsoft Fabric preview that adds table-level discovery to OneLake Catalog search, including Global Search and the OneLake Catalog Search API. The post explains how permission trimming works, what object-level security excludes, and which tenant setting admins should review before the late-September rollout.

salilkanade1 announces updates to the Microsoft Fabric SQL Query Editor, focused on scaling web-based SQL development for large warehouses with a faster results grid, improved object exploration and IntelliSense, better query management, and tighter connections to OneLake analytics, semantic models, and operational workflows.

Scirqueira shares practical operating rules for keeping a Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse medallion architecture healthy in production, focusing on batch ingestion, rerunnable Silver transformations, consumption-ready Gold modeling, using Fabric DW defaults effectively, and monitoring performance and failures by layer.

Andre Terceros and Bodhisatva Gautam announce a preview of Workspace Outbound Access Protection (OAP) in Microsoft Fabric for Operations Agent and Fabric Maps, explaining how workspace admins can enforce a default-deny model for outbound connections, allow only approved endpoints, and get clearer visibility into blocked actions.

ryanjadams explains how Fabric’s “connection recency” signals help admins govern connections at enterprise scale, and how to use Fabric REST APIs plus a companion Python notebook to find stale, duplicate, and single-owner connections before taking cleanup actions.

Jeremy Winter argues that getting enterprise AI into production is less about picking a single model and more about running an end-to-end system on Azure—spanning infrastructure, data, governance, security, and operations. The post highlights Microsoft AI Foundry, Fabric, Purview, and Azure databases, plus modernization workflows that include GitHub Copilot.

ryanjadams introduces Microsoft Fabric Connection Recency (preview) and the related REST APIs for auditing and governing connections at enterprise scale, including how to identify stale and duplicate connections and reduce ownership risk using role assignments and Entra group ownership.

pankajarora announces a preview of Capacity Operation Events in Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Hub, adding near real-time, operation-level telemetry to help capacity admins pinpoint which operations, workspaces, and artifacts drive consumption, throttling, and performance issues, and to build custom monitoring and alerting workflows.

ryanjadams explains how to keep Fabric Data Factory pipelines and Copy Jobs fully private when moving data to or from Snowflake, using Workspace-level Private Link, a private Azure Storage staging account, and Snowflake’s Azure Private Link storage integration.

AmirJafari announces general availability of the Microsoft Fabric data agent integration in Copilot Studio, enabling agents to call governed Fabric data as a tool (Fabric IQ Data MCP) and return permission-respecting, data-grounded answers. The post highlights the new tool-based authoring experience, improved orchestration, and expanded publishing targets.

Michaela Isaacs explains the GA transition in Power BI and Microsoft Fabric from embedded ODBC drivers to Apache Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC) drivers, why it improves large-result performance and security posture, and how to validate the change ahead of the tenant-wide cutover.

bgautam announces general availability of the Microsoft Fabric Admin API for listing workspace networking communication policies tenant-wide, aimed at improving security auditing, compliance monitoring, and governance reporting across Fabric workspaces.

Nimrod Shalit introduces a new set of Microsoft Learn resources for implementing CI/CD in Microsoft Fabric, covering platform concepts, best practices, and hands-on tutorials for deploying Fabric items across dev/test/prod using Git integration, Azure DevOps pipelines, Terraform, the Fabric CLI, and the fabric-cicd library.

Virginia_R announces a Preview feature in Fabric data agents that upgrades natural-language-to-DAX translation for Power BI semantic models using an agentic, iterative approach. The post explains how planning, tool use, intermediate-result inspection, and instance value indexing improve filter accuracy, consistency across Microsoft experiences, and overall query reliability.

meghasony shares guidance on structuring dbt jobs in Microsoft Fabric, focusing on how to place Bronze/Silver/Gold layers across Lakehouse and Warehouse, and how to separate architecture decisions from orchestration choices using Fabric pipelines or native scheduling.

bytecascade explains how Microsoft Fabric Eventstream can securely ingest private operational data (like factory MQTT telemetry) for real-time analytics by using an Azure virtual network bridge and a Fabric streaming virtual network data gateway, without exposing public endpoints.

FabSubhojit announces the general availability of Fabric Migration Assistant for SQL database, a guided workflow for assessing schema compatibility, provisioning SQL database in Fabric, deploying schema with fix suggestions, and copying data. The update adds a Validate step that analyzes a DACPAC before any Fabric resources are created.

Naorbt announces a preview feature that lets you embed a Fabric Map as a reusable tile inside Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Dashboards, so teams can add geospatial context to operational monitoring without duplicating map queries, layers, filters, or styling across dashboards.