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Yina Arenas, Microsoft Foundry CVP, shares how to keep your development and operations teams coordinated, ensuring productivity, governance, and visibility across all your AI projects.

Learn more in this Microsoft Mechanics demo, and start building with Microsoft Foundry at ai.azure.com

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00:00 - Build AI apps and agents with Microsoft Foundry
00:54 - Tour the Microsoft Foundry portal
03:32 - The Build tab and Workflows
05:03 - How to build an agentic app
07:02 - Evaluate agent performance
08:37 - Safety and security
09:18 - Publish your agentic app
09:41 - Post deployment
11:36 - Wrap up

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Sam Altman declared a "code red" at OpenAI to concentrate resources on improving ChatGPT amid rising pressure from Google's Gemini 3. Priority moves include personalization, improved model behavior, faster responses, and fewer unjustified refusals while advertising, AI agents, and the Pulse product are being paused. OpenAI plans to ship a new reasoning model claimed to be ahead of Gemini 3 and to advance image-generation capabilities, sparking intense industry excitement and debate over competitive strategy and investor expectations.

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Azure App Testing is Microsoft's latest fully managed, cloud-based offering that brings together Azure Load Testing and Playwright Workspaces to help developers and QA teams with their performance testing and functional testing needs. In this video, we'll take a look at how you can AI to debug performance issues faster.

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As the toolset available to Copilot has become more advanced, so has the toolset available to administrators for governance. The recently launched insights dashboard gives you an overview of the how Copilot is being used by your developers. The new control panel allows you to customize access, control MCP, and review audit logs, ensuring the right people have access to the right tools, with a paper trail. Learn more at https://gh.io/copilot

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01:20 Managing custom agents
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Mads joins to give a behind the scenes look at how the keyboard shortcuts system works in Visual Studio.

⌚ Chapters:
00:00 Welcome
02:10 Viewing commands and viewing keyboard shortcuts
03:20 Specifying the scope of keyboard shortcuts
06:00 Applying keyboard mapping schemes
08:55 Discussion regarding Ctrl-W and other multi-key shortcuts
10:35 More on mapping shortcuts to commands
12:45 Using the Keyboard Hero extension
13:40 Discussion of various topics
19:45 Wrap-up

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