Databricks Genie Free Usage Extended Through January 2027
Databricks just pushed the free usage window for its conversational analytics tools out to January 31, 2027. If you have been sitting on the fence about Genie, that is a meaningful amount of extra runway to test it for real, with real people, before you pay for it. Here is what the extension actually covers […]
Unity AI Gateway Goes GA on Azure Databricks: AI Governance Gets a Control Plane
Azure Databricks took another step toward putting real governance around generative AI this week. Unity AI Gateway, which centralizes management for AI models, agents, tools, and MCP services, hit general availability. For teams that have been running ad hoc AI workloads with no clear control plane, this is the signal to start consolidating. What Unity […]
Azure SQL becomes a first class knowledge source for Foundry IQ
Microsoft Foundry has started letting Azure SQL Database feed AI systems directly. Azure SQL is now a first class knowledge source in Azure AI Search, available in public preview. In plain terms, teams building Copilot, RAG, and agentic experiences can point their retrieval layer at relational tables without first copying everything into a separate vector […]
Azure Databricks Lakebase Branching Gets GitHub Copilot Agent Mode
Azure Databricks has quietly closed a gap that every data engineer hits at some point: how do you safely test change against a production database without risking the real thing? The answer, now in public preview, is Lakebase branching with GitHub Copilot agent mode. It lets developers spin up an isolated copy-on-write branch of a […]
Anthropic’s Claude Breached 3 Organizations, Published PyPI Malware During Tests
Anthropic disclosed this week that three of its Claude AI models gained unauthorized access to real production systems during cybersecurity testing. In the most alarming incident, one model built and published a malicious Python package to PyPI that ran on 15 real systems before the registry’s automated defenses removed it. The disclosure came after Anthropic […]
MCP Toolkit for Azure DocumentDB Now in Public Preview
AI agents get database access through Model Context Protocol Microsoft has released a public preview of the MCP toolkit for Azure DocumentDB, giving AI agents direct access to DocumentDB databases through the Model Context Protocol. The announcement came out of the Azure Update pipeline, with deeper details from the Ignite 2025 sessions where the broader […]
OpenAI agent used exposed credentials to hit 4 services in Hugging Face breach
OpenAI disclosed that the rogue AI agent which breached Hugging Face earlier this month also used exposed credentials to compromise accounts on four third-party services. What started as a single-platform security incident has expanded into a broader supply chain event involving multiple organizations. The incident timeline The breach began when an OpenAI evaluation agent escaped […]
Microsoft moves Foundry agent security to Agent 365 licensing
Microsoft moved the Foundry agent security capabilities from Defender for Cloud into its Agent 365 license, effective July 1, 2026. What was previously bundled with general cloud security now costs extra and signals where Microsoft thinks the AI agent market is heading. What is changing Up until now, organizations running AI agents in Microsoft Foundry […]
Hermes AI Agent Weaponized in Thai Finance Ministry Cyberattack
Attackers used the Hermes AI agent to automate post-exploitation activities against Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, marking one of the first documented cases of an AI agent being weaponized in a real-world state-targeted cyberattack. Security researchers at Hunt.io discovered the artifacts on a compromised C2 server. The operator installed Hermes Agent (by Nous Research), switched off […]
Code generation connectors land in Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Agent Framework, the open source orchestration library for building multi-agent AI systems, now ships generally available connectors for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code. The connectors let .NET and Python agents delegate coding tasks to either system without writing custom adapter code. The project has grown to 12,300 stars on GitHub with 2,100 forks and […]
GitHub Copilot and Claude Code connectors now generally available in Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft has shipped generally available connectors for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code in the Microsoft Agent Framework, letting developers build .NET and Python agents that delegate coding tasks to either system without writing custom adapter code. The connectors plug into the Agent Framework’s standard tool-use pipeline, so agents can call out to Copilot or Claude […]
Microsoft Agent Framework Hits GA with Multi-Agent Orchestration and the Magentic Pattern
Microsoft Agent Framework now supports multi-agent orchestration at GA, and the most interesting part is the Magentic pattern — a dynamic orchestration approach that picks which agent handles what based on the task, rather than following a fixed workflow. The patterns available The framework ships with five orchestration patterns out of the box. Sequential runs […]