What's new March 2025

Author: jboback

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

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 Azure AI Language is updated on an ongoing basis. To stay up-to-date with recent developments, this article provides you with information about new releases and features.
 
+## March 2025
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+* Document and text abstractive summarization is now powered by fine-tuned Phi-3.5-mini! See the [announcement blog](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azure-ai-services-blog/exciting-update-abstractive-summarization-in-azure-ai-language-now-powered-by-ph/4369025) for more information.
+* Our [Conversational PII redaction service](personally-identifiable-information/how-to/redact-conversation-pii.md) is now powered by an upgraded GA model. This updated 2025-02-01 version includes improved quality and accuracy for Credit card number entities and Numeric identification entities, such as Social security numbers, Driver’s license numbers, Policy numbers, Medicare Beneficiary Identifier, and Financial account numbers.
+* Both our [Text PII redaction service](personally-identifiable-information/overview.md) and our Conversational PII service preview API (version 2024-11-15-preview) now support the option to mask detected sensitive entities with a label beyond just redaction characters. Customers can specify if personal data content such as names and phone numbers, that is, "John Doe received a call from 424-878-9192", are masked with a redaction character, that is, "******** received a call from ************", or masked with an entity label, such as "`PERSON_1` received a call from `PHONENUMBER_1`". More on how to specify the redaction policy style for your outputs can be found in our [how-to guides](personally-identifiable-information/how-to/redact-text-pii.md).
+* In the [Named Entity Recognition service](named-entity-recognition/overview.md), [Entity Resolution](named-entity-recognition/concepts/entity-resolutions.md) was upgraded to use [Entity Metadata](named-entity-recognition/concepts/entity-metadata.md) starting in API version 2023-04-15-preview. If you're calling the preview version of the API equal or newer than 2023-04-15-preview, check out the [Entity Metadata](named-entity-recognition/concepts/entity-metadata.md) article for information on how to use the resolution feature.
+* [Named Entity recognition](named-entity-recognition/overview.md) now supports the ability to specify a list of entity tags to be included in the response or excluded from the response. If a piece of text is classified as more than one entity type, the `overlapPolicy` parameter allows customers to specify how the service will handle the overlap. The `inferenceOptions` parameter allows for users to adjust the inference, such as excluding the detected entity values from being normalized and included in the metadata. Learn more on [our documentation](named-entity-recognition/how-to/skill-parameters.md).
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 ## November 2024
 
 * [Native document support](native-document-support/overview.md) is now available in public preview `2024-11-15-preview` without gated preview limitations.