Azure Weekly

Issue #551 - 15th February 2026

Highlights this week include: OneLake catalog: The trusted catalog for organizations worldwide - Microsoft's OneLake catalog provides a central hub for discovering, managing, governing, and securing data across the Fabric platform, now adopted by over 230,000 organizations worldwide. Supercharge AI, BI, and data engineering with Semantic Link (GA) - Ruixin Xu - Semantic Link reaches general availability in Microsoft Fabric, unifying AI, BI, and data engineering through a shared semantic layer that streamlines workflows across data science, reporting, and automation. Enrich Power BI reports with machine learning in Microsoft Fabric - Ruixin Xu - A walkthrough of an end-to-end pattern for adding ML predictions such as churn scoring to Power BI reports, using Fabric's unified semantic models, notebooks, and scoring endpoints.

VS Code becomes multi-agent command center for developers - VS Code v1.109 lets developers orchestrate GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude, and OpenAI Codex agents side by side, transforming the editor into a unified multi-agent development hub. Choosing the Right Model in GitHub Copilot: A Practical Guide for Developers - A practical guide to selecting the right AI model in GitHub Copilot for different tasks, from fast lightweight models for quick edits to deep reasoning models for complex debugging and agentic workflows. Azure Databricks Supervisor Agent (GA) - Databricks Agent Bricks Supervisor Agent is now generally available, offering a managed orchestration layer that coordinates multiple AI agents and tools from a single entry point, governed by Unity Catalog.

Finally, What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)? - An explainer on RAG uses a retail example - analysing customer reviews about delivery, the technique of retrieving relevant information and injecting it into an LLM's context to ground responses in domain-specific data and reduce hallucinations.

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