A developer released PBI Guard, an open-source Python tool that freezes a Power BI .pbip file as a golden source of truth and flags any changes made to it by a person or an AI. PBI Guard lets users de…
Microsoft made Fabric IQ generally available in Microsoft Copilot Chat and Cowork, announced by CEO Satya Nadella at FabCon and SQLCon in Barcelona. The release grounds Copilot answers in trusted ente…
Microsoft announced at its Fabric + SQL European Community Conference in Barcelona that Fabric IQ, a shared intelligence layer connecting OneLake data, Power BI semantic model metrics, and ontology an…
Microsoft is restructuring Copilot into three surfaces — Home, Code and Autopilot — with Home reaching the Frontier program in the coming weeks, Code following at the end of the month and Autopilot ex…
Meta Integration Technology, Inc. (MITI) announced general availability of MetaKarta v12, which includes a Semantic Hub that compiles governed business definitions into databases, BI tools, and AI age…
OpenAI recently introduced a Data agent for ChatGPT Work that can investigate company data and create shareable dashboards, and its earlier account of its in-house data agent sets the operating princi…
A developer proposes a "known-answer" testing method for spreadsheet AI copilots, arguing that assistants should first reproduce verified totals and explain their cell ranges before being trusted with…
Microsoft is positioning its data platform — spanning Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databases, OneLake, Power BI, and Fabric IQ's semantic intelligence layer — as the foundation for enterprise AI at scale a…
A developer building a Power BI dashboard for a nonprofit client using Google Analytics 4 data encountered several data integration challenges, including malformed CSV exports and data retention limit…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra is now generally available for all customers in Microsoft Foundry, designed to help organizations make decisions for complex work and execute across applications and systems. The …
Microsoft Fabric's Copilot, integrated across its data platform, enables automated data engineering by generating PySpark ETL code, debugging Spark stack traces, and writing DAX measures, requiring an…
A developer detailed the creation of an AI Engineering Observability Platform for test automation, converting an agentic framework into a system that tracks metrics such as token usage, agent utilizat…
An engineering team has developed an AI Test Automation Factory using multi-agent systems and the Model Context Protocol (MCP), reducing automation effort by 78% from 45 hours to 9.5 hours per scenari…
A developer warns that AI assistants may be collecting more personal and business information than users realize, as each interaction can reveal sensitive details. The post advises users to strip unne…
HM Treasury reported that its AI deployments advanced from early experimentation to organisation-wide use during fiscal year 2025/26, with Microsoft 365 Copilot rolled out to all 2,000-plus staff afte…
Microsoft's Fabric IQ workload introduces Ontology, a feature in public preview that gives data a shared business meaning by defining concepts and relationships independent of physical data storage. T…
AI is automating SQL, dashboards, and ad-hoc analysis, but the future of data analytics is not fewer analysts; it's analysts who lead with judgment, not queries, according to Emma Stowell, Angus Morsh…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used the company's 2026Q4 earnings call and his social media accounts to showcase a Power BI dashboard he built with Microsoft's Copilot AI from a Morgan Stanley analyst's …
Rob Collie, a former Microsoft engineering leader and founder of a data and AI consulting firm, argues that most companies are approaching AI incorrectly and should focus on customizing existing model…
A developer built a reproducible sales-forecasting workflow for a B2B SaaS company that combines CRM extraction, stage calibration, machine-learning win probabilities, and Power BI dashboards. The sys…