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Microsoft added model pinning and hiding plus a comparison view running the same prompt against two models, along with plan consumption visibility and premium model management so teams see quota burn before hitting it. Custom agents can be shared across an organization instead of living in one developer's config. A new Git agent reviews uncommitted changes and commits directly. (Visual Studio Blog)
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Microsoft's update ships a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat built on the SDK powering Copilot CLI, explicitly so behavior stays consistent across CLI, the GitHub app, VS Code and Visual Studio (Visual Studio Blog). It ships curated .NET and Azure skills you enable selective...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
Microsoft shipped hosted MCP via streamable HTTP with Microsoft Entra authentication — no local installation, instant access to Azure DevOps context (boards, repos, pipelines, wiki) for AI agents. Currently supports VS Code and Visual Studio; Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studi...
As of this morning, Article 50 applies to every AI system that interacts with humans or generates synthetic content in the EU. Conversational agents must disclose they're AI. AI-generated output must carry machine-readable marking. Deepfakes must be labeled. Same day, the Euro...
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and Project Perception launched July 27. The model, a code-tuned derivative of MAI-Thinking-1 trained on Microsoft's own exploit and remediation records, scored 96% on CyberGym (Microsoft says 12 points above Anthropic's Mythos) and runs inside MDASH at 50% t...
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