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Microsoft AI Daily Brief

Thursday, 20 August 2026

3 sections ยท 3 items ยท published 07:13 UTC

๐Ÿค– Microsoft Copilot Studio

๐ŸŸก Coming soonPlanned Sep 2026

Improvements to the agent evaluations experience

Copilot Studio agent evaluations gain richer evaluation explanations, agent reasoning traces, cited knowledge sources, and comparative analysis for assessing agent quality.

Why it matters: gives partner teams deeper diagnostics to validate agent quality before rollout.

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๐Ÿง  Microsoft 365 Copilot & Apps

๐ŸŸก Coming soonPlanned Sep 2026

Code Blocks in Microsoft 365 Copilot

Copilot Chat will preview code, charts, and diagrams inline within the conversation instead of in a side-by-side pane.

Why it matters: makes code and visual outputs easier to read in Copilot Chat for developer and analyst workflows.

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๐Ÿ› ๏ธ SDKs & Dev Tooling

๐ŸŸข Just shippedGA 2026-08-19

Microsoft Agent Framework .NET 1.18.0

Adds opt-in concurrent tool invocation, Cosmos NoSQL vector memory, and Foundry hosted-session user-identity pass-through, plus a tool-approval loop fix. Breaking change: the isolation key provider is renamed to AgentIsolationKeyProvider.

Why it matters: teams building agents on Agent Framework .NET must update code for the isolation-key rename; new memory and identity pass-through options expand production scenarios.

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