Announcing: DevUI Agent Inspector for Microsoft Agent Framework

Microsoft Agent Framework adds DevUI Agent Inspector in public preview, a local debugging surface that shows agent runs as a navigable tree of model calls, tool invocations, and intermediate state. Developers can pause, replay, and edit prompts mid-run, s

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Google CloudBigQuery·Jul 15, 2026

BigQuery supports data governance tags , which let you enforce column-level security and data masking

BigQuery supports data governance tags , which let you enforce column-level security and data masking. Data governance tags are a type of Resource Manager tag that you can attach to sensitive columns and use in BigQuery data policies to grant conditional access to your users. This feature is in Preview .

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SnowflakeSnowflake Native Apps and Marketplace·Jul 15, 2026

Integrated SaaS listings on Snowflake Marketplace (General availability)

Select Integrated SaaS listings now let you start a free trial of a provider’s application directly from a Marketplace listing. This experience replaces the trials previously offered through Snowflake Partner Connect and brings these trials into the Marketplace, where discovery, trial, and purchase all happen in one place.

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SnowflakeSnowflake·Jul 15, 2026

Consumer-controlled maintenance policies , General Availability

Consumer-controlled maintenance policies for Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available. Consumers can define when Snowflake Native App upgrades happen in their accounts by creating a maintenance policy and applying it to an account or an individual app. For more information, see Consumer-controlled maintenance policies .

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DatabricksDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform·Jul 15, 2026

Thinking Machine Labs Inkling now available as a Databricks-hosted model in Public Preview

Model Serving now supports Thinking Machine Labs Inkling as a Databricks-hosted model. This mixture of experts (MoE) model supports text and image inputs, a 1 million token context window, and is optimized for coding, reasoning, and agentic tool-use tasks. You can access this model using Foundation Model APIs . Inkling is available in Public Preview .

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DatabricksDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform·Jul 15, 2026

Custom URLs for your Databricks account (Public Preview)

You can now claim and enable a Custom URL that gives your Databricks account a single, branded entry point (for example, acme.databricks.com ) for all users and workspaces. See Give your Databricks account a custom URL .

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DatabricksDatabricks Data Intelligence Platform·Jul 15, 2026

AI Search High QPS is now generally available

AI Search High QPS is now generally available for standard endpoints. Set a target QPS on standard AI Search endpoints to power high-throughput, real-time workloads like search bars, recommendation systems, and entity matching. High QPS is enabled by default, but existing endpoints are not affected.

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