Microsoft updates Visual Studio Code with new themes and adjustable AI reasoning

Microsoft is accelerating its dev cycle with weekly releases. The latest VS Code update brings a visual overhaul and deeper ...

Build apps faster with Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for under $50

If you’re still working with multiple tools just to build and test your code, there’s a better way. Instead of patching ...

Google Launches Stitch, An AI Tool That Turns Prompts Into App Interfaces

Google has unveiled Stitch, an experimental AI tool that generates UI designs and front-end code from prompts, helping ...
TechCrunch

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...
ZDNet

I tried a Claude Code rival that's local, open source, and completely free - how it went

I wore the world's first HDR10 smart glasses TCL's new E Ink tablet beats the Remarkable and Kindle Anker's new charger is one of the most unique I've ever seen Best laptop cooling pads Best flip ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Expands Quantum Development Kit with New Open-Source Tools, VS Code Integration

Microsoft released new open-source quantum development tools, expanding the Quantum Development Kit. VS Code and GitHub Copilot now play a more central role in ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code adds agent development extension

The Copilot Studio extension lets developers use any VS Code-compatible AI assistant to develop AI agents, then sync with Copilot Studio for testing and iteration. Microsoft is offering a Microsoft ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...
Reuters

US, European regulators set principles for 'good AI practice' in drug development

Jan 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency jointly issued principles for safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence in developing medicines, ...
ZDNet

Linus Torvalds is 'a huge believer' in using AI to maintain code - just don't call it a revolution

Torvalds says AI is now genuinely useful for Linux maintainers. Linux 6.18 was the kind of release he likes: boring and stable. Torvalds is calmer now, but some things still make him testy. At Open ...
Forbes

Code, Disrupted: The AI Transformation Of Software Development

Software development has fundamentally changed in the past 18 months. AI-assisted coding and engineering went from novel and exploratory to widely adopted across enterprise teams. We're seeing it ...