Microsoft just made a ton of new AI announcements across GitHub, Copilot, Azure AI Foundry, Windows, and more. Here’s everything important announced live from Microsoft Build 2025:
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Codex AI Tool for Legacy Project Development and Agent Orchestration
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unlike other AI coding tools, I’m excited to try throwing codex at some older projects seems like this is just the “execution agent”, and once there’s cohesive orchestration on top of this…
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Managing Ads from IDE Development Environment
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i think this is more managing ads from an IDE, but well… you never know
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Fine-tune Embedding Models to Boost RAG Performance
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Fine-tune your embedding model in 30 mins. Learn how to extract structure & metadata from docs to boost RAG performance. May 20 | 10–10:30 AM PT https://
snorkel.ai/webinar/weekly
-demo-with-qa/
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SQL Pipe Syntax Revolutionizes Database Query Composition
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SQL pipe syntax is a new syntax that makes SQL dramatically easier to write and understand, in a fully backward compatible way. Users can now compose SQL logic as a sequence of independent clauses arranged in any order. No more nested subqueries or confusing clause orders.
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GitHub Copilot Adds Coding Agent Feature
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Github Copilot now has a coding agent too 👀
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 19 mai 2025
It is also accessible from VSCode! Microsoft Build brought loads of new stuff as well.
"The year of Agents" 🔥 https://t.co/v5m9tXrQTJ pic.twitter.com/8om1WjlYRBGithub Copilot now has a coding agent too It is also accessible from VSCode! Microsoft Build brought loads of new stuff as well. "The year of Agents"
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AI-Powered Marketing Automation Launches From IDE with Product Context
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love this new DX. launch automated marketing/ads directly from your IDE w full context of your product. https://t.co/lYGmNnPmUA
— Yohei (@yoheinakajima) 19 mai 2025love this new DX. launch automated marketing/ads directly from your IDE w full context of your product.
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MCP Architecture Best Practices for Personal Projects
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This seems like the "right" way to do it. I guess for small personal projects, a single MCP might work but it's basically the lazy way.
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Coding agents will ship fast but produce low quality work
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all these coding agents we’re about to see some serious shipping and lots of slop