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What Microsoft announced, and what was written about it. 58 recent headlines, newest first, each linked to its source.

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  1. Microsoft Outage Exposes A Blind Spot In Your AI Agents

    ForbesPressAgents and developer tools

  2. Dan Ives on Nvidia Without Jensen Huang, Microsoft Outage

    BloombergPressChips and infrastructure

  3. Securing Microsoft Identities At Agentic Speed

    ForbesPressAgents and developer tools

  4. Microsoft 365 caught a bug and the whole world sneezed

    ComputerworldPressProducts and industry

  5. New AI “copilot” helps engineers design better structures

    The system asks humans for feedback to increase trust in machine-generated designs for buildings and bridges.

    MIT NewsResearchAgents and developer tools

  6. Microsoft Labors to Fix Long Outage of Office, Outlook, Copilot

    The InformationPressAgents and developer tools

  7. Microsoft Vows to Pay Its Own Way to Power Data Centers

    BloombergPressChips and infrastructure

  8. Bring your business context to ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot Cowork and Grok Bot

    Every business is adding more data to their AI-powered workflows. But more data doesn't...

    DatabricksOfficialAgents and developer tools

  9. The bad news for Microsoft in the Blue Tsunami

    ComputerworldPressProducts and industry

  10. GitHub App support for Enterprise Copilot seat management

    Enterprise GitHub Apps can now call the enterprise-level Copilot seat management APIs to control which users and enterprise teams are assigned Copilot seats. The Copilot seat management APIs are accessible…

    GitHubOfficialAgents and developer tools

  11. Gemini 4 Carbon in GitHub Copilot

    Gemini 4 Carbon, Google’s latest model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for complex coding, agentic, and reasoning tasks, with a focus on secure code generation…

    GitHubOfficialAgents and developer tools

  12. IBM and Microsoft Announce a New AI Agent Platform Designed for Industry-Specific Transformation

    - IBM Consulting brings more than 6,000 pre-built AI agents and assets, the experience building them, and industry expertise, while Microsoft provides AI, cloud, and security technologies

    IBMOfficialAgents and developer tools

  13. Claude Fable 5.2 in GitHub Copilot

    Claude Fable 5.2, Anthropic’s newest Fable model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. You can use it for complex, multistep coding tasks across large codebases. In early testing, Fable…

    GitHubOfficialAgents and developer tools

  14. Copilot code review: API management and review overview updates

    You can now manage GitHub Copilot code review settings through the REST and GraphQL APIs, from enterprise policy down to individual repositories. Copilot’s review overview comment is now more compact,…

    GitHubOfficialAgents and developer tools

  15. Copilot impact dashboard adds chat and VS Code agent usage

    The Agent adoption chart in the Copilot impact dashboard now includes Copilot Chat and the VS Code Agents window, so you can see engagement across nine Copilot experiences. The adoption…

    GitHubOfficialAgents and developer tools

  16. GitHub Copilot weekly releases — November 2

    This week, Copilot comes to JetBrains Air and Xcode’s coding assistant, with updates to help you manage pull requests, settings, and agent sessions. GitHub Copilot app Set up Agent Merge…

    GitHubOfficialAgents and developer tools

  17. Microsoft’s Buyout Offer Sets Its Workforce on Edge

    The New York TimesPressFunding and deals

  18. LangSmith BYOC is now available on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud

    LangSmith BYOC now runs on AWS (GA), Azure and Google Cloud (Beta). Your traces, evals, and agent deployments stay in your cloud account while LangChain runs it.

    LangChainOfficialProducts and industry

  19. How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity

    Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results.

    GitHubOfficialAgents and developer tools

  20. How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code

    Learn how to move an agent session from the GitHub Copilot app into VS Code without losing the conversation, code changes, or working context.

    GitHubOfficialAgents and developer tools

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