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Browser automation tool in Microsoft Foundry is now GA

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s been an important development in the GitHub Copilot space that caught my attention, and I wanted to break it down — not just what was announced, but why it matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.

What’s New

AI agents can reason over data, invoke APIs, and coordinate complex workflows. Yet many business processes still depend on websites, including internal portals, administrative consoles, vendor systems, dashboards, and applications without complete API coverage.

What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | September 2026

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What’s New

September’s updates help you run agents on a schedule, load tool definitions on demand, and investigate behavior from traces. Routines and Tool Search are now GA; Insights enters public preview, and Model Router gains preview controls. We also expanded the GPT-6 lineup and introduced GPT-6.1 Sol.

Bring agentic reasoning to Python function apps with Azure Functions Agent bindings (preview)

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s been an important development in the Microsoft Agent Framework space that caught my attention, and I wanted to break it down — not just what was announced, but why it matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.

What’s New

Azure Functions applications already have a strong model for event-driven work: a trigger starts the function, bindings connect it to other services, and application code validates input and controls the result. AI reasoning doesn’t need to replace that model.

Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here’s how we actually improved it.

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What’s New

Give an agent better tools and it should do better work. That’s the instinct, anyway.

When you open a pull request, Copilot code review reads the diff and explores the surrounding code to find the problems that matter before they ship. To do that, it used its own code exploration tools. So when we swapped in the better-maintained, shared tools that power the Copilot CLI,grep,glob, andview, we expected a clean upgrade.

Build 2026: From observability to ROI for AI agents on any framework

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What’s New

9 min read · June 3, 2026 · Sebastian Kohlmeier

Shipping an AI agent is the easy part. Keeping it accurate, safe, and accountable in production is where teams get stuck. Agents are non-deterministic. Their behavior shifts as models update, tools change, and traffic patterns evolve and most of that drift happens silently, long after the demo.End-to-end observabilitycovering the full development lifecycle is how you close that gap: See every step an agent takes, evaluate quality and safety against criteria you define, optimize what isn’t working, and prove the business value of what is.

Making agent memory more reliable, transparent, and production-ready

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What’s New

Memory has always mattered for personalization and continuity. But as customers move agents from demos into production, another requirement becomes just as important: reliability.

Enterprise teams need agents that not only remember facts, but also apply what they have learned to follow procedures consistently, recover from repeated failure modes, and complete tasks with greater confidence over time. Memory in Foundry Agent Service is built for this shift, with new procedural memory capability, management experiences, and a set of new features such as time-to-live that give developers more visibility and control over what memory stores.

Build and run agents at scale with Microsoft Foundry at Build 2026

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s been an important development in the AI Agents space that caught my attention, and I wanted to break it down — not just what was announced, but why it matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.

What’s New

Developers are already building agents, and the early productivity gains speak for themselves. Thanks to coding agents like GitHub Copilot, standing up a working prototype is the easy part.

Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

There’s been an important development in the Agentic RAG & Foundry IQ space that caught my attention, and I wanted to break it down — not just what was announced, but why it matters and how it fits into the bigger picture.

What’s New

Foundry IQ: Build smarter agents faster with unified knowledge and serverless retrieval

Developers building agent fleets keep hitting the same pattern: the agent logic is ready, but the knowledge infrastructure underneath is complex to do well. Getting to production means solving for stability, scale, data access, answer quality, security, and content ingestion all at once. Today, we are enabling developers to have faster impact by simplifying the enterprise knowledge platform.

What’s new in Microsoft Foundry | Build Edition

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What’s New

TL;DR

At Build 2026, Microsoft Foundry added more of the platform pieces developers need for production agents: runtime, tools, memory, grounding, models, observability, and governance. This recap highlights what shipped, what is in preview, and where to start.