Power BI Weekly

Issue #319 - 5th August 2025

Let's start with this week's updates: first up is that the Standalone Copilot in Power BI will be turned on by default in September. As usual, you do get to manually override this if you don't wish to enable the "chat with your data" experience for whatever reason. We've also been told about the First-Ever Fabric Notebooks Competition for Power BI, while sharing a link to a new Notebook Gallery (which, it's no surprise to see, has been primed with a few notebooks from Michael Kovalsky (of Semantic Link fame)).

Elsewhere this week, there's some AI content on the SQLBI channel, with Kurt Buhler writing a great piece on AI in Power BI: Time to pay attention, describing the potential of MCP servers to complement your Power BI development flows. Also on the AI front, prathyoo has shared a useful prompt to allow you to Document PBIP report using AI. And on the DataViz front this week, specifically matrix visuals, Reid Havens has shown a neat way to achieve Dynamic Matrix Columns in Power BI: Show/Hide Based on Row Hierarchy, and Davide Bacci is back sharing a very impressive (and entirely native) Matrix Gradient visual, using some clever DAX logic.