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Azure Daily News for Thursday, Aug 07 2025

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  • Introducing Azure App Testing: Scalable End-to-end App Validation
    Azure App Testing enables developers and QA teams to run large-scale functional and performance tests to pinpoint issues in their applications, across frameworks like Playwright, JMeter, or Locust. It brings together two powerful testing capabilities—Azure Load Testing and Microsoft Playwright Testing—into a single hub in the Azure Portal, providing a consistent experience for resource...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • OpenAI GPT-5 is now in public preview for GitHub Copilot
    GPT-5, OpenAI’s latest frontier model, is rolling out in public preview in GitHub Copilot. GPT-5 is OpenAI’s most advanced model to date, delivering substantial improvements in reasoning, code quality, and… The post OpenAI GPT-5 is now in public preview for GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
    Source: GitHub Copilot Feed
  • Reimagining healthcare delivery and public health with AI
    Former Washington State Secretary of Health Dr. Umair Shah and Mayo Clinic CEO Dr. Gianrico Farrugia explore how healthcare leaders are approaching AI when it comes to public health, care delivery, the healthcare-research connection, and the patient experience. The post Reimagining healthcare delivery and public health with AI appeared first on Microsoft Research.
    Source: Microsoft Research Blog
  • Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms
    Microsoft has been named a Leader again—empowering developers with AI-powered low-code tools for scalable, secure enterprise innovation. The post Microsoft recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms appeared first on Microsoft Power Platform Blog.
    Source: Microsoft Power Platform Blog
  • 🔐 Strengthen Data Protection in Dataverse
    Microsoft Dataverse introduces new security controls to manage sensitive business data. The post 🔐 Strengthen Data Protection in Dataverse appeared first on Microsoft Power Platform Blog.
    Source: Microsoft Power Platform Blog
  • How to Secure Azure Bot Service Endpoints with Teams Channel?
    Prerequisite This article assumes that you’ve already gone through a following post. Please make sure to read it before proceeding: Developing a Custom Engine Agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat Using Pro-Code With the article, we have found how to publish a Custom Engine Agent using pro-code approaches such as C#. In this post, I’d like to shift the focus to security, specifically how to...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog
  • How do I catch bad data before it derails my agent?
    Welcome back to Agent Support—a developer advice column for those head-scratching moments when you’re building an AI agent! Each post answers a real question from the community with simple, practical guidance to help you build smarter agents. Today’s question comes from someone who just discovered that “garbage-in, garbage-out” is very real. 💬 Dear Agent Support I’m training an agent on a...
    Source: Azure Developer Community Blog
  • Open AI's gpt-oss models on Azure Container Apps serverless GPUs
    Just yesterday, OpenAI announced the release of gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, two new state-of-the-art open-weight language models. These models are designed to run on lighter weight GPU resources making them highly accessible for developers who want to self-host powerful language models within their own environments. If you’re looking to deploy these models in the cloud, Azure Container Apps...
    Source: Apps on Azure Blog

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