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Microsoft Fabric Copilot builds real-time dashboard visuals from text
Microsoft Fabric Copilot preview enables analysts to build and edit real-time dashboard visuals using natural language. It generates Kusto Query Language (KQL) from text prompts, previews data, and suggests visuals. This removes the KQL learning barrier, letting analysts focus on design, but requires verifying data cleanliness and query accuracy to avoid errors.
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Power BI officially rejects third-party data models
Microsoft's Fabric team states Power BI cannot reliably connect to third-party semantic models via XMLA or SSAS due to query translation failures in Import and DirectQuery modes. Organisations lose the ability to use external metric layers with Power BI visuals, requiring native DAX modelling and relationships within Power BI.
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Microsoft releases Fabric Notebook APIs for automated data preparation
Microsoft releases Fabric Notebook Public APIs, enabling developers to create, update, and delete notebooks programmatically. Includes on-demand scheduling and automated auth for background data transformations integrated with Power BI dataflows. Shifts heavy cleaning from analysts' Power Query to IT-managed Fabric notebooks, speeding up report refreshes from hours to seconds.
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Microsoft releases direct Fabric connection to bypass Power BI data imports
Microsoft's JDBC driver for Fabric Data Engineering allows Power BI to query Lakehouse data directly via Spark SQL. It supports Entra ID and handles complex structures. This enables Direct Lake mode, eliminating slow data imports and refresh delays for live, high-performance reporting.
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Open-source AI tool automates DAX formulas in Power BI
Power BI developers face steep DAX learning curve for measures like year-over-year growth. New open-source tool v0.22.0 adds AI agent that generates formulas from specific prompts, cutting model build time from days to hours. Requires clean data models and precise instructions.
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AI assistants can now read your Power BI data models directly
Microsoft released Fabric Local MCP server, an open-source tool connecting AI assistants like Claude, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor directly to Power BI and Fabric data models. AI reads schemas, OneLake files, and table relationships via OpenAPI, eliminating manual explanations for troubleshooting DAX measures and filter contexts.
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