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In this episode, Michael and Sarah talk to Sophie Ke and Dave Minasyan about Microsoft Baseline Security Mode, a new feature to help ease security settings. We also cover the latest Azure security news including Microsoft 365 E7, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Azure Blob Storage SFTP, Azure Database for PostgreSQL, and new Confidential VM types.
The AI SDK is a robust TypeScript library that enables developers to easily create AI-powered applications. In this tutorial, you’ll build a simple AI chatbot with a real-time streaming interface.
After completing this article, you will have a solid grasp of key concepts used in the Vercel AI SDK, including:
Setting Up the Project
To get started, create a new Node.js application and set it up to use TypeScript.
For that, in your terminal, run the following commands:
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npm install -D typescript @types/node ts-nodenpx tsc –initOnce the commands have been executed, replace the contents of your tsconfig.json file with the configuration shown below.
{ "compilerOptions": { "target": "ES2022", "module": "ES2022", "moduleResolution": "node", "rootDir": "./src", "outDir": "./dist", "strict": true, "esModuleInterop": true }, "include": ["src/**/*"], "exclude": ["node_modules"]}
After that, install the dependencies below:
Next, add the .env file to the project root and paste the OpenAI key information below inside the file:
Now that you’ve added your API key and installed all the dependencies, you’ll notice that your package.json file has been updated with these changes.
{ "name": "demo1", "version": "1.0.0", "main": "index.js", "type": "module", "scripts": { "build": "tsc", "start": "tsc && node dist/index.js" }, "author": "", "license": "ISC", "description": "", "devDependencies": { "@types/dotenv": "^6.1.1", "@types/json-schema": "^7.0.15", "@types/node": "^24.7.2", "tsx": "^4.20.6", "typescript": "^5.9.3" }, "dependencies": { "@ai-sdk/openai": "^3.0.0-beta.29", "ai": "^6.0.0-beta.47", "dotenv": "^17.2.3", "zod": "^4.1.12" }}
In your setup, the package name and version may differ. Next, create a src folder in your project and add an index.ts file inside it. In that file, log the value of your OpenAI key to verify that the project has been configured correctly.
import dotenv from 'dotenv';dotenv.config();const openaiApiKey: string | undefined = process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY;console.log(`OpenAI API Key: ${openaiApiKey}`);
When you execute npm run start in your terminal, you should see your OpenAI key printed in the console.
Read full article here – https://www.telerik.com/blogs/learning-vercel-ai-sdk-part-1
I hope you find this article useful. Thanks for reading.
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Summary Welcome to the Power Platform monthly feature update! We will use this blog to share news in Power Platform from the last month, so you can find a summary of product, community, and learning updates from Power Platform in one easy place. Now, let’s dive into what’s new in Power Platform:
Jump into Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Pages to try the latest updates, you can use an existing environment or get started for free using the Developer plan.
Licensing capacity reporting is now fully available in the Power Platform admin center (Licensing → Power Automate → Usage), giving admins a single place to see which users are over capacity and which flows are driving that usage. Export options, a consolidated licensing page, and additional improvements are on the way.
Power Platform inventory is now generally available, giving tenant administrators a unified view of cloud flows, Copilot Studio agent flows, and Workflows agent workflows across every environment. Expansion with connectors, actions, and key usage data is on the way — making it even easier to spot your most active automations, enforce compliance, and prevent orphaned resources.
The new usage page is now in public preview with modern dashboards showing adoption trends and resource-level analytics for Power Apps, Power Automate, and Copilot Studio. For Power Automate, the page already shows flow run data so you can track execution patterns across your tenant.
In this demo from the Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Community call, you see how Microsoft 365 Copilot integrates with model-driven Power Apps to answer questions about your app data, generate visualizations using code interpreter, and take action across Microsoft 365. You’ll see how Copilot uses app and data context to generate documents, create presentations, and even schedule meetings—all directly from your app
Previously, we walked through how to enable Microsoft 365 Copilot in model-driven apps. Now it’s time to put it to work where your business processes actually run. In the Copilot side pane, you can ask Copilot to summarize table data, visualize what’s active, see what’s pending, recap the history of a specific record, and reference related content surfaced through Work IQ. The result is a more natural transition from “what’s going on?” to “what should I do next?” without ever leaving the app.
Because this experience is powered by Microsoft 365 Copilot, you can also bring in the right agent at the right moment. You can @mention first‑party agents like Researcher and Analyst, or involve a custom agent your organization has made available. That agent collaboration helps turn insights into action, whether that means drafting a document, creating a PowerPoint, or taking next steps like scheduling a meeting. All of this stays grounded in your app context and chat history. Ready to get started? Begin with the admin and maker setup guidance, then explore how end users work in the pane, and finally learn how to tailor the experience with agents.
We’ve shipped quality updates across all nine modern controls in Power Apps canvas apps—Text, Number Input, Date Picker, Text Input, Tab List, Combo Box, Radio, Link, and Info Button. This is one of the most comprehensive control refreshes to date, addressing top maker feedback around consistency, reliability, and flexibility. Whether you’re building new apps or maintaining existing ones, these updates make modern controls noticeably better to work with.
The biggest improvements are in consistency, performance, and developer experience. Controls now share a unified property model with standardized names and typed enum values predefined value sets, which means better IntelliSense, fewer formula errors, and less guesswork. The OnChange behavior has been refined across controls to fire at the right moments—reducing unnecessary recalculations and making apps feel faster and more responsive. Mobile-optimized defaults are also now applied automatically when you add controls to a mobile layout.
Migration is guided every step of the way. When you open an app using a previous version of a modern control, you’ll see an in-product notification with a “learn more” link and an “update” button coming soon on all controls. Dedicated per-control migration guides walk you through every property rename and formula change needed—so you stay in control of when and how you upgrade.
This video explores the new vibe.powerapps.com preview, which enables developers to build full code Power Apps from a prompt using AI-driven plan, data, and app generation. You’ll see how the unified experience simplifies app creation, editing, and publishing without requiring VS Code or manual code authoring.
Object-Centric Process Mining (OCPM) is a new approach to process analysis in Power Automate Process Mining that models processes as they occur in real business environments. Unlike traditional case-centric process mining, which groups events under a single case notion (e.g., Order ID), OCPM allows a single event to belong to multiple objects and object types — such as orders, invoices, deliveries, and payments — preserving the full web of interactions and dependencies end-to-end.
This capability solves a fundamental limitation of case-centric mining: when events routinely touch several objects of different types simultaneously, forcing them into a single case can hide cross-object relationships, duplicate events, or distort metrics. OCPM keeps these relationships explicit, rendering object-centric process maps that show object lifecycles, activity nodes spanning multiple object types, and color-coded object-flow edges. This makes it straightforward to identify multi-object bottlenecks, verify compliance policies that span entities (e.g., “ship only after payment”), and analyze how different process flows converge and interact.
OCPM is ideal for scenarios where dependencies across object types drive outcomes — such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, or supply chain processes — while case-centric mining remains the right choice for tightly scoped, single-instance workflows.
The process intelligence experience is the next-generation interface for process analysis in Power Automate Process Mining. It replaces the previous fixed process overview with a flexible, card-based dashboard system that adapts to your analysis needs. Users can create multiple tabs to organize different analytical perspectives, apply dynamic filters across all visualizations, and arrange, resize, and configure cards to build personalized analytical workspaces.
Key enhancements include the ability to group related metrics and visualizations together logically, switch between preconfigured analytical perspectives instantly, and share dashboard configurations with team members. Continuous data refresh ensures you’re always working with current information, while the customizable layouts give you complete control over what you see and how you see it — enabling tailored views for different stakeholders and use cases.
Agent API for Power Pages enables site creators to build custom chat and other user experiences and integrate these seamlessly with their custom-built Microsoft Copilot Studio agents. This enhancement gives organizations more flexibility for integrating intelligence into their web experiences.
We’re announcing the public preview of the Power Pages plugin for GitHub Copilot CLI and Claude Code. Describe the site you want in natural language and the plugin handles the rest — from project scaffolding and setup to Web API integrations, permissions, and site deployment.
The plugin is purpose-built for Power Pages. It understands table permissions, web roles, site settings, authentication configuration, and Web API patterns. Because it generates platform-aware code, you spend less time on manual configuration and more time building your site.
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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk, where hype comes to die a terrible death. We have a fireside chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format.
This week Rob, Alistair, Pete, and Leonard jump on Web3 for a discussion about:
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🐣 Is NVIDIA GTC becoming the new crypto conference? Is the AI token the new Bitcoin?
🐣 Can AI hype pivot to quantum hype when the AI bubble implodes?
🐣 Is physical AI real? Is it about the Matrix and the kung fu simulations?
🐣 R.I.P. Chuck Norris!! May you spar with Bruce Lee for eternity!
🐣 How do you bankrupt your business with agentic AI?
🐣 Scaling out your enterprise agentic disaster 101!
🐣 Can we truly make OpenClaw "Enterprise Grade"?
🐣 What does it take to be AI irresponsible?
🐣 How to create a useless analyst relations program.
🐣 Silicon Valley's last hype cycle - remember SVB bank crisis!
🐣 You can't spell "Excellence" without "MVP"!
🐣 What grown-ass people should know but don't know.
🐣 Key themes for Silicon Valley 2.0, the ultimate parody of the AI hype.
🐣 Are the cloud service providers the car dealers of AI?
🐣 What happened to Microsoft and AI? Did they fall off the face of the Earth?
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Mazen and Robin catch up on five months of React Native and Expo releases, covering the biggest updates in 0.82–0.84 and Expo SDK 55. They talk through the move to the new architecture, Hermes V1 becoming the default, faster builds, better developer tools, and AI updates that make upgrading a little less of a headache.
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How much do you really know about the protocol that everything is built upon? This week, we go behind the scenes with Simone Carletti, a 13-year industry veteran and CTO at DNSimple, to explore the hidden complexities of DNS. We attempt to uncover why exactly DNS is often the last place developers check during an outage, drawing fascinating parallels between modern web framework abstractions and network-level opaqueness.
Simone shares why his team relies on bare-metal machines instead of cloud providers to run their Erlang-based authoritative name servers, highlighting the critical need to control BGP routing. We trade incredible war stories, from Facebook locking themselves out of their own data centers due to a BGP error, to a massive 2014 DDoS attack that left DNSimple unable to access their own log aggregation service. The conversation also tackles the reality of implementing new standards like SVCB and HTTPS records, and why widespread DNSSEC adoption might require an industry-wide mandate.
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