This is the bonus content for the #120 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday — 7 highlights this week instead of 5. If you haven’t seen the main newsletter yet, check it out on LinkedIn. 1. Everything You Need to Know About the Latest in C# A comprehensive walkthrough of what’s new in C# for 2026 […]
Archive: August 2026
Microsoft has a habit of quietly upgrading the model behind a stable endpoint name instead of forcing everyone to migrate to a new one. That’s exactly what just happened with GPT-chat-latest — it’s now built on GPT-5.6 Sol, and if you’re already pointing at GPT-chat-latest in Microsoft Foundry, you get the upgrade without touching a […]
Every time Microsoft ships a new model into Foundry, I ask myself the same boring-but-important question: does this change anything for the way I actually write code? Most of the time the answer is “cool demo, doesn’t affect my day job.” This time it’s different. MAI-Thinking-1 — Microsoft’s first reasoning model — just went into […]
Published: 2026-08-06 This is the bonus content for the #119 edition of 5 Highlights Thursday – 7 highlights this week instead of 5. If you haven’t seen the main newsletter yet, check it out on LinkedIn. 1. QDK Tutorial: Learn Quantum Computing with GitHub Copilot in VS Code A quick, hands-on look at the Quantum […]
