GitHub
2025-09-30
GitHub's Copilot coding agent — an asynchronous background developer agent that opens draft pull requests, makes changes, and requests review — now remembers context within the same pull request, allowing it to maintain continuity across related tasks.
2025-09-25
GitHub announced that GitHub Copilot CLI is available in public preview, bringing the Copilot coding agent into the terminal so developers can work locally with AI-assisted coding in their command line workflow.
.NET
Aspire 9.5 introduces a preview 'aspire update' command, single-file AppHost support, improved CLI and dashboard UX, and new integrations for AI, DevTunnels, and other tooling.
Microsoft Security Blog
2025-09-18
A 2025 Forrester Consulting TEI study found Microsoft Defender delivered a 242% ROI over three years, produced $17.8 million in benefits, and paid for itself in under six months by helping organizations consolidate security tools and improve SecOps efficiency with AI and automation.
Azure Updates
2025-09-17
Databricks One is available in Azure Databricks as a public preview offering a unified, simplified platform that combines data engineering, analytics, and AI development into a single, governed environment with integrated collaboration and enterprise governance.
2025-09-16
Microsoft Fabric and Purview teams announced their participation in the European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference and highlighted Microsoft Purview innovations focused on unifying data security and governance for the AI era in a Microsoft Security Blog post.
2025-09-15
Application Insights Code Optimizations for .NET Apps helps .NET developers detect performance bottlenecks and receive AI-driven code improvement suggestions via GitHub Copilot integration, streamlining diagnostics and optimizations within the .NET ecosystem.
2025-09-11
GitHub announced deprecation of certain Microsoft models in GitHub Models and recommends users migrate to the suggested replacements (for example, Phi-3-medium-4k-instruct users should transition to Phi-4) to continue using improved models with enhanced features.
2025-09-09
GitHub announced that OpenAI’s GPT-5 and GPT-5 mini are now generally available in GitHub Copilot. The announcement explicitly states GPT-5 mini is available to all Copilot plans, including Copilot Free; the excerpt does not include full details about GPT-5 plan availability.
2025-09-05
GitHub has released two new GitHub Actions that utilize the GitHub Models inference API to assist open source maintainers. These include an AI assessment comment labeler to help streamline issue triage using trigger labels.
2025-08-25
Microsoft Azure is now generally available in a new cloud region in Austria, supporting secure data storage and processing for local companies and public administration.
2025-08-06
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is introducing an AI-powered CLI feature called "az aks agent" that integrates agentic reasoning into the Azure CLI for developers and operators.