Claude Fable 5 powers the next wave of autonomous AI agents
Claude Fable 5 powers the next wave of autonomous AI agents The latest announcement shows that Claude Fable 5 is now available in Microsoft Foundry, giving Azure customers access to Anthropic’s newest frontier model that powers autonomous agents in GitHub Copilot and the Foundry Agent Service [source]. According to the model catalog, the system supports […]
Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit: Powering AI Agents with Production-Grade Database Access
Azure Cosmos DB MCP Toolkit: Powering AI Agents with Production-Grade Database Access The Azure Cosmos DB Model Context Protocol (MCP) Toolkit has officially reached general availability, ushering in a new era of AI agent integration with operational data. This standardization initiative eliminates the need for custom connectors while solving longstanding security and scaling challenges for […]
Microsoft Foundry IQ Goes GA: A Unified Knowledge Layer for Grounded Agents
Summary Microsoft announced general availability of Foundry IQ in June 2026. It is a managed knowledge layer that lets developers ground AI agents in enterprise data without rebuilding retrieval pipelines for every project. Teams connect sources such as SharePoint, OneLake, and Azure Blob once, and Foundry IQ handles ingestion, chunking, vector indexing, and access enforcement […]
Claude Fable 5 Now Powers Enterprise AI Agents
Claude Fable 5 Now Powers Enterprise AI Agents Microsoft announced the availability of Claude Fable 5 within Microsoft Foundry, bringing Anthropic’s latest frontier model to the Azure ecosystem for powering autonomous agents in GitHub Copilot and Foundry Agent Service. What this means: This integration marks a shift toward autonomous AI systems that can manage complex, […]
Azure Databricks Lets AI Agents Debug Against Production Data Without Breaking Things
Database Branching Meets AI Debugging Azure Databricks just dropped a feature that addresses one of the biggest headaches in AI development: debugging agents against production data without breaking anything. The public preview of Lakebase branching with GitHub Copilot agent mode lets developers create instant, isolated copies of production databases using copy-on-write technology. Here’s what’s happening: […]
GitHub Copilot Agent Mode Brings Autonomous Database Management to SSMS
Microsoft Brings AI Autonomy to SQL Server Management Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Agent mode for GitHub Copilot in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). Unlike the existing Ask mode that generates single responses, Agent mode operates autonomously, executing multi-step database tasks until completion. The feature ships with SSMS 22.7 and targets performance investigation, […]
Microsoft Foundry Toolboxes Hit GA, Finally Solve Agent Tool Integration Hell
Microsoft Tackles the Agent Tool Integration Mess Microsoft Foundry just moved Toolboxes to general availability, and if you’ve ever wrestled with AI agent tool integration, this might be the fix you’ve been waiting for. The problem isn’t new, but it’s finally getting the attention it deserves. The Tool Integration Problem Nobody Talks About Here’s the […]
Databricks Just Put Git Inside Your Database And Pointed Copilot At It
Databricks Just Put Git Inside Your Database (And Pointed Copilot At It) Azure Databricks announced a public preview that combines two things developers have been cobbling together manually: copy-on-write database branching for Lakebase Postgres, and a direct line from GitHub Copilot agent mode to those branches. The pitch is simple. One command creates an isolated […]
GitHub Copilot Modernization Agent Reaches GA, Scaling Legacy Upgrades Across Entire Portfolios
GitHub Copilot Modernization Agent Is Now Generally Available Microsoft has announced general availability (GA) of the GitHub Copilot modernization agent, an AI-powered orchestration tool that handles application assessment, upgrade planning, and code-level remediation across entire portfolios. Instead of modernizing one repo at a time, teams can now run coordinated, repeatable modernization workflows across Java, .NET, […]
MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB Reaches General Availability, Saving You From Integration Hell
Your AI Agent Can Finally Talk to Cosmos DB Without the Homework Microsoft just announced general availability of the MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB (v1.1.2), an open-source server that lets AI agents query your production Cosmos DB using natural language. No custom integration scripts. No fragile middleware. No praying that your embedding provider config […]
Microsoft Just Made It Way Easier to Plug AI Agents Into Your Database
Microsoft Just Made It Way Easier to Plug AI Agents Into Your Database Microsoft has announced the general availability of the MCP Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB (v1.1.2), giving developers a standardized way to connect AI agents and copilots directly to their operational data. The toolkit, which first appeared in preview at Ignite 2025, is […]
Azure Functions Can Now Run AI Agents Declared in Markdown Files
At Microsoft Build 2026, the Azure Functions team shipped something that blurs the line between serverless compute and autonomous AI. The serverless agents runtime is now in public preview, letting developers define entire AI agents in .agent.md markdown files and deploy them like any other function app. You write the agent’s instructions in plain text, […]