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AIJetBrains has opened the Early Access Program for Air, an agentic development experience available as a plugin on JetBrains Marketplace or in the 2026.3 EAP builds of its IDEs. Air works with existing agents such as Codex, GitHub Copilot, Junie, and Cursor, and it ships with no agents installed. Free Junie Lite runs are offered, while cloud runs require a JetBrains AI subscription.

Why it matters: The post explains how Air brings existing agents into the IDE, showing a concrete workflow for managing parallel agent sessions alongside code review tools.

AIMicrosoft's new Copilot brings Home, Code, and Autopilot together in one place for creating custom apps, building decks, automating workflows, and resuming work. Users can start using the Copilot app now and try new features as they become available in Frontier.

AIMicrosoft Research has developed a machine learning system that predicts where extreme space-weather events are likely to damage power systems 30-60 minutes before a storm arrives. Such storms can also degrade GPS accuracy and satellite operations, so advance warning could help operators prepare.

AIMicrosoft Research intern-developed machine learning pipeline forecasts location-specific geomagnetic risk for 66,935 substations in the continental United States. It combines solar-wind observations, AE and Dst forecasts, geological conductivity and grid data to estimate risk 30 to 60 minutes ahead. The pipeline detected nearly 80% of major space-weather events during the evaluation period.

AIMicrosoft says its Circular Centers now operate eight facilities across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific to decide the next life of decommissioned Azure hardware. Last year, Microsoft achieved a 92% reuse and recycling rate for decommissioned servers and components. Since 2014, Azure cores per rack have increased about 13-fold while power for the same task fell roughly 90%.

AIPromptArmor disclosed that a malicious Skill could hijack Copilot Cowork's AI gateway to spawn cloud agents that exfiltrate a victim's files to an attacker's server. No human approval was required, and any data Copilot could access was exposed. The vulnerability was reported to Microsoft on July 14, 2026, and Microsoft confirmed a fix on September 2, 2026.

AIMicrosoft's Azure AI team argues that better models do not eliminate the need for a dedicated content extraction layer, since agents need trustworthy, structured, and auditable inputs. The post notes that building extraction directly on an LLM quickly demands chunking, layout parsing, grounding, normalization, and evaluation infrastructure. Microsoft positions Azure Document Intelligence and Azure Content Understanding in Foundry Tools as managed options for that layer.

AIMicrosoft's Jared Spataro, Chief Marketing Officer for AI at Work, published a letter describing how Microsoft is building AI for businesses. The post says the goal is to help teams find answers in company data, develop ideas, and build agents around their own workflows, rather than focusing on whichever model is leading at the moment. It also emphasizes embedding AI in the apps businesses already use.

AIMicrosoft has made SQL Server on Azure Local generally available for connected and disconnected deployments, letting organizations run SQL Server in their own datacenters and edge locations. Disconnected operations continue locally where external connectivity is restricted or unavailable. Eligible existing SQL Server licenses can be used, and Foundry Local on Azure Local, currently in preview, brings AI inference alongside SQL Server data.

AIMicrosoft says its HASTE tool helps disaster responders assess damage and pinpoint the hardest-hit areas within hours rather than weeks. The faster assessment is intended to direct aid to where it is needed most.

AIMicrosoft Research has introduced Quine, an early-stage research effort to build a multimodal world model of biology that connects insights across biological scales and modalities. The system is designed to help scientists computationally search a space far larger than intuition allows and prioritize hypotheses before lab testing. Experimental results are meant to feed back into the model and sharpen future research directions.

AIMicrosoft Research introduced Quine, an experimental research system combining a multimodal world model of biology with an interactive harness that connects models, scientific tools, literature, and researchers. In a pancreatic cancer study with the Broad Institute, Quine prioritized compounds that shifted tumor cell states, and several top-ranked candidates were validated in wet-lab assays. Access is initially limited to the Quine Fellows program and select collaborations, and the system is intended for research use only, not clinical use.

Why it matters: The post shows how a multimodal biology world model is wired into a harness, grounded in one wet-lab cancer example and a limited fellows-program access path.

AIMicrosoft is bringing business context from Fabric IQ into Microsoft Copilot, with Fabric IQ in Copilot Chat and Cowork generally available and integration into the new Code experience coming soon through the Frontier program. Power BI is also gaining agentic app creation in Power BI Desktop, letting users generate applications from trusted semantic models and publish them to Microsoft Fabric.

AIThe Microsoft Research Asia — Singapore lab, launched a year ago, says it has built a strong foundation and deepened collaboration across government, academia, and industry. The post says the lab is exploring how frontier AI research can create real-world value.

AIMicrosoft Research Asia – Singapore, opened July 24, 2025 as Microsoft's first Southeast Asian research lab, reports progress after its first year. The lab's work spans next-generation AI models and agentic systems, domain-specific AI for real-world impact, AI-native research practices, and ecosystem and talent development. Its healthcare collaborations on multimodal and agentic AI for clinical decision-making are being deployed through partnerships across Singapore's healthcare ecosystem.

AIMicrosoft's Datacenter Academy is creating pathways to tech careers worldwide, giving more than 12,500 students tools, education, and hands-on training to build skills and pursue careers. The program aims to help learners make an impact in the digital future.

AIMicrosoft Research shared a roundup of four projects spanning secure data protection when trusted hardware is compromised, underwater whale monitoring, and the Living Library for conversations with historical figures. The post also urges AI builders to listen to the young people who will ultimately use the technology.

AIMicrosoft has introduced an Azure Virtual Machine Lifecycle Policy defining four stages, Current, Extended, End of Life, and Retired, for managing VM transitions. Azure General Purpose, Memory Optimized, Compute Optimized, and Storage Optimized VMs are the first families covered, with Current VMs recommended for new deployments. Retired VMs can no longer be provisioned, are not covered by an SLA, and are no longer eligible for Microsoft support.

AILovable announced a partnership with Microsoft that lets users publish apps into their company's Microsoft Entra tenant using Copilot Managed Runtime. Apps can connect to Microsoft 365, Fabric, Dataverse, and SQL data, and staff sign in with their work login. Copilot Managed Runtime is in public preview, and Microsoft 365 connectors, Fabric, and Microsoft sign-in are available on every Lovable plan, while Entra workspace sign-in is included on Business and Enterprise.

AIMicrosoft announced Autopilot, an always-on agent built on OpenClaw. The OpenClaw account highlights that Microsoft contributors, including Omar Shahine, have contributed back to the OpenClaw project.

AIThe post from Microsoft's official account contains only a link with the text "Learn more," so no specific product, feature, or figures are stated. The linked destination is not described in the source, so no further details can be supported.

AIMicrosoft describes its Copilot as the new operating system for work, designed to keep humans in control. The post is a brief product positioning statement with no further details on features, availability, or pricing.

AIMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella says the AI industry is "way too self-obsessed" and that communities need AI they can control and that brings economic benefit. He argues that data centers must create real economic surplus for locals, because no amount of industry promotion is good enough anymore.

AIMustafa Suleyman praised the Copilot team's work and promoted a new feature called Autopilot, directing readers to check it out. The post provides no details about Autopilot's functionality, capabilities, or availability. Background from a linked article references Home, Code, and Autopilot sections but does not establish specifics.

AIMicrosoft Copilot's post argues that the next phase of AI will be defined by how the technology is used rather than by better models alone. The main post offers no concrete figures, models, or product details, and the quoted context only points to a linked article on home, code, and autopilot uses.

AIMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella told Alex Heath that AI agents could create a market "orders of magnitude" bigger than the cloud, during an interview tied to the unveiling of the new Copilot. The conversation covers Autopilot, Microsoft's OpenClaw-based agent that works on users' behalf, along with AI safety, public trust, Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, and Xbox's path back to growth.

AIMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella says the new Copilot is motivated by AI intelligence accelerating rapidly. He argues the next priority is to diffuse that intelligence everywhere. The post does not specify features, models, or timelines.

AIMicrosoft has refreshed its Copilot app to bring chat, task delegation, app building, and workflow automation into one place. The update is positioned as an AI built for work, with Satya Nadella describing Copilot as a new OS for work spanning models, form factors, and tasks. The announcement includes Autopilot, an enterprise agent, Code for building apps hosted within a company's tenant, Home combining Chat and Cowork, and Office fully embedded in Copilot.

AISatya Nadella pointed followers to a Microsoft blog post announcing a new Copilot with Home, Code, and Autopilot. The post itself contains no further details in the source provided.

AIMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella announced what he called the biggest Copilot update to date, positioning Copilot as a new operating system for work. The update bundles Autopilot, a proactive long-running enterprise agent; Code, for building apps hosted inside a company's tenant; Home, combining Chat and Cowork; and Office, now fully embedded in Copilot. Copilot can also be invoked in Teams, and a new proactive experience called Today surfaces key information from across M365 without a prompt.

AIMicrosoft announced that CEO Satya Nadella will take the stage at #MSIgnite. Attendees can explore the full session catalog and register via the linked page.

AIMicrosoft is helping Rockwell Automation turn decades of factory shop floor experience into answers workers can get in seconds. The post describes factory workers using a single question to tap into their colleagues' accumulated knowledge.

AIMicrosoft Foundry expands its agent platform with voice agents in public preview, long-running resilience for hosted agents, and tools for evaluating production agents. The post also says GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and Claude Opus 5.5 are now available in Foundry. Agent optimizer, Insights, and Rubric evaluator are described as tools for continuous improvement, with some reaching general availability later this month.

Why it matters: The post shows how Foundry combines model choice, voice agents, long-running resilience, and production evaluation into one agent workflow, with a customer example.

AIMicrosoft's Foundry Agent Service preview lets developers attach a named, ordered egress policy to a hosted agent, allowing only approved destination hostnames. The walkthrough uses an invoice agent, an Audit-mode RAI policy with a Deny default, and Allow rules for two finance and vendor hosts, configured outside the agent code. Network egress controls are preview features, not GA, with no preview SLA, and are not intended for production use.

AIMicrosoft announced general availability of Routines in Foundry Agent Service, a managed way to run agents on a timer, on a recurring schedule, or in response to GitHub issue events and new Microsoft Teams channel messages. Routines keep the trigger, agent action, identity, connections, and run history in the Foundry project, and each routine can run under the creator's identity or the agent's own Microsoft Entra ID identity. A preview reminder tool lets a Hosted Agent schedule itself to resume later on the same conversation.

Why it matters: The post explains how scheduled, event-based, and self-reminding agent runs are managed in one place, along with the creator versus agent identity choice for unattended tasks.

AIAnthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol are rolling out in Microsoft Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, Cowork, and Copilot Studio. The post says Work IQ supplies work context, so users can choose the model that fits each task.

AISalesforce CEO Marc Benioff said his firm's early Anthropic investment came after Microsoft's ties barred it from investing in OpenAI, pushing it toward Anthropic and other model companies. Benioff predicted the Anthropic investment could return not just billions but maybe tens of billions of dollars. The post also notes Salesforce has invested in more than 700 companies.

AIMicrosoft AI announced that its MAI-Image-2.6 image model can be tried on Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter. The post provides links to both platforms but no further details on capabilities, pricing, or benchmarks.

AIMicrosoft AI reports its image model rose from 864 to 1147 Elo in nine months, a gain of 377 points per year. The company says that pace is 1.6 times the next-fastest climb on the leaderboard. The post does not name the model.

AIMicrosoft Research reports that moving AI inference off the robot itself can improve task success and efficiency. The findings suggest this approach can support more advanced physical AI workloads as robots grow smarter.