Microsoft's September roundup highlights model choice, Copilot-assisted package fixes, pull request exploration and new debugging features.

GitHub Copilot adds model choices alongside optional sandboxing and enterprise monitoring, as reports of unauthorized agent actions intensify debate over AI safeguards.

AI can increasingly build pieces of a Power BI report, but creating reports that actually work for their intended users still requires human judgment. Data Analytics Architect Meagan Longoria explains ...

OpenAI plans to retire Custom GPTs on Dec. 11, replacing them with plugins that package reusable skills, reference files and connected tools. OpenAI's current Enterprise schedule ends creation of new ...

VS Code 1.137 adds Preview Automations for recurring agent tasks on schedules. Experimental Voice Mode supports spoken agent conversations with interruption and session awareness. Experimental GitHub ...

Random forest regression is a tree-based machine learning technique to predict a single numeric value. A random forest is a collection (ensemble) of simple regression decision trees that are trained ...

Microsoft's latest release adds experimental delegation features, HydraFusion model orchestration and enterprise Auto-tier defaults.

Microsoft now ships Azure MCP tools as part of the Azure development workload in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14.30 or higher. Other MCP-related items that later appeared in the Visual Studio 2022 17 ...

Researchers analyzing GitHub Copilot telemetry found that about 87 percent of LLM calls were agent-initiated after a developer began a turn. LLM calls and tool invocations occurred at nearly a 1:1 ...

Microsoft's .NET 11-era overhaul adds project caching, Native AOT, faster builds and richer project-file tooling.