Releasesby GlyphAnnouncing: Agent Harness in Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for Agent Harness, the production runtime for agents built with the framework. Customers running pilots on the preview harness can now move the same agent code into production with backwards compatibi
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BigQuery supports data governance tags , which let you enforce column-level security and data masking
BigQuery supports data governance tags , which let you enforce column-level security and data masking. Data governance tags are a type of Resource Manager tag that you can attach to sensitive columns and use in BigQuery data policies to grant conditional access to your users. This feature is in Preview .
Integrated SaaS listings on Snowflake Marketplace (General availability)
Select Integrated SaaS listings now let you start a free trial of a provider’s application directly from a Marketplace listing. This experience replaces the trials previously offered through Snowflake Partner Connect and brings these trials into the Marketplace, where discovery, trial, and purchase all happen in one place.
Consumer-controlled maintenance policies , General Availability
Consumer-controlled maintenance policies for Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available. Consumers can define when Snowflake Native App upgrades happen in their accounts by creating a maintenance policy and applying it to an account or an individual app. For more information, see Consumer-controlled maintenance policies .
Thinking Machine Labs Inkling now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview
Model Serving now supports Thinking Machine Labs Inkling as a Databricks-hosted model. This mixture of experts (MoE) model supports text and image inputs, a 1 million token context window, and is optimized for coding, reasoning, and agentic tool-use tasks. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Inkling is available in Public Preview .
Custom URLs for your Databricks account (Public Preview)
You can now claim and enable a Custom URL that gives your Databricks account a single, branded entry point (for example, acme.databricks.com ) for all users and workspaces. See Give your Databricks account a custom URL .
AI Search High QPS is now generally available
AI Search High QPS is now generally available for standard endpoints. Set a target QPS on standard AI Search endpoints to power high-throughput, real-time workloads like search bars, recommendation systems, and entity matching. High QPS is enabled by default, but existing endpoints are not affected.
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Announcing: Multi-agent orchestration patterns including Magentic in Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Agent Framework reaches general availability for multi-agent orchestration patterns, including the dynamic Magentic pattern that delivered 38 percent on GAIA and competitive results on AssistantBench and WebArena in published benchmarks. The GA
Announcing: Multi-agent orchestration SDK with the Microsoft Foundry Agent Framework in C# and Python
Microsoft Foundry is now introducing Agent Framework, a unified multi-agent orchestration SDK for C# and Python. This release consolidates patterns previously spread across AutoGen and Semantic Kernel, giving developers a consistent set of abstractions fo
Announcing: Tracing for Microsoft Agent Framework (Python and .NET)
In public preview, Microsoft Foundry now offers tracing for the Microsoft Agent Framework in both Python and .NET, helping developers observe how agents reason, call tools, and interact with models during execution. This release is part of the broader hos
Announcing: CodeAct pattern and Hyperlight containers in Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Agent Framework adds the CodeAct pattern in public preview, which lets agents collapse a multi-step plan into a single executable code block rather than chaining one tool call at a time. In representative workloads, CodeAct cut end-to-end latenc
Announcing: Episodic procedural memory in Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Agent Framework adds episodic procedural memory in public preview, a built-in store that lets agents remember successful task patterns and replay them on similar future requests. The framework records action sequences, tool selections, and inter
Announcing: DevUI Agent Inspector for Microsoft Agent Framework
Microsoft Agent Framework adds DevUI Agent Inspector in public preview, a local debugging surface that shows agent runs as a navigable tree of model calls, tool invocations, and intermediate state. Developers can pause, replay, and edit prompts mid-run, s
[In preview] Public Preview: Protect sensitive generative AI telemetry in Application Insights and Microsoft Foundry
Azure Monitor Application Insights now stores generative AI content in a dedicated GenAIContent table (AppGenAIContent in Log Analytics), making it possible to apply newly available access controls to sensitive AI telemetry. Because Application Insights p
[Launched] Public Preview: Document PII playground sample in Microsoft Foundry NextGen
Document-based PII detection in Azure AI Language now ships an initial playground experience in the Microsoft Foundry NextGen portal. The playground loads a prepared sample document, runs it through the document-based PII feature, and shows the redacted o