Enterprises seeking to make good on the promise of agentic AI will need a platform for building, wrangling, and monitoring AI agents in purposeful workflows. In this quickly evolving space, myriad ...

The ‘Getting Started’ section is like the quick-start guide for a new gadget. It gives you the most important first steps, ...

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

Silimate co-founder and CEO Ann Wu M.S. ’23 demonstrated how the startup’s AI copilot can identify bugs, trace root causes and optimize chip performance at a Monday talk. The ...

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution. Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg is Chief ...

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OpenAI launches Codex for Windows, letting developers run multiple AI coding agents, automate testing tasks, and sync projects seamlessly across Mac and Windows.

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Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...