Merge pull request #6945 from laujan/486797-august-whats-new

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articles/ai-services/language-service/whats-new.md

@@ -6,17 +6,35 @@ author: laujan
 manager: nitinme
 ms.service: azure-ai-language
 ms.topic: whats-new
-ms.date: 07/16/2025
+ms.date: 09/04/2025
 ms.author: lajanuar
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 # What's new in Azure AI Language?
 
 Azure AI Language is updated on an ongoing basis. Bookmark this page to stay up to date with release notes, feature enhancements, and our newest documentation.
 
+## August 2025
+
+**Release of new PII and NER model (2025-08-01-preview)**. This new preview model version introduces broader functionality and expanded capabilities for personal information identification (PII) and named entity recognition (NER):
+
+* **Expanded language support for DateOfBirth entity**. The **DateOfBirth** entity, which initially supported English only, now includes Tier 1 language coverage. This expansion supports French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Dutch, ensuring broader international applicability.
+
+* **Two new entity types added**:
+   * **SortCode**: A financial identifier used in the UK and Ireland to specify the bank and branch associated with an account.
+   * **LicensePlateNumber**: Support is now available for standard alphanumeric vehicle identification codes. At this time, license plates that consist exclusively of letters aren't supported.
+
+* **Improved AI accuracy in financial entity recognition**. The **2025-08-01-preview** model is further optimized to minimize both false positives and false negatives in financial entity recognition, resulting in greater accuracy and reliability.
+
+**New Python SDK release: azure-ai-language-conversations 2.0.0b1**. The latest Python SDK, **azure-ai-language-conversations 2.0.0b1**, is now available and supports the **2025-15-05-preview** REST API for conversation runtime.
+
+* **Conversational Language Understanding (CLU) inference** now allows for seamless integration with advanced large-scale language models, providing real-time recognition of user intent without the need for extra model training.
+* **Enhanced intent prediction capabilities** enable support for complex, multi-turn conversations. iThese advancements contribute to greater sophistication in conversational AI systems and, as a result, workflow automation processes are improved.
+
+
 ## July 2025
 
- **Expanded .NET SDK support for text and conversation authoring APIs**:
+ **Expanded .NET SDK support for text and conversation authoring APIs**. 
 
   * [**Azure.AI.Language.Text.Authoring `1.0.0-beta.2`**](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Azure.AI.Language.Text.Authoring/1.0.0-beta.2) now supports project import with raw JSON string for custom NER and custom text classification.