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GitHub is expanding Copilot beyond the IDE with a new desktop application and a new collaborative work surface called canvas as part of its broader efforts to pitch the AI-assisted coding tool as the control center for agent-native software development. The desktop application announced at Microsoft’s annual Build conference this week is designed to give developers a dedicated environment for wor…

Microsoft has identified seven new failure modes in agentic AI systems, in addition to those it identified last year in its first Taxonomy of Failure Modes in Agentic AI Systems . Four things contributed to the growing list of ways agentic AI can go wrong : the speed at which the technology went mainstream, the growing maturity of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem, the rise of computer-u…

The team behind RubyGems, a package hosting site for Ruby developers, has added a new feature to bundler, a tool for managing Ruby packages (or ‘gems’) to protect developers against the recent wave of software supply chain attacks : A cooling-off period before recently updated packages are installed on their systems. Recent attacks on software repositories have focused on stealing developer crede…

Projection, much? Microsoft’s head of AI has accused a rival’s AI service of being too pricey, just as the introduction of usage-based pricing for GitHub Copilot begins to hit developers using its own services. “Anthropic is extremely expensive and I think many people are urgently looking for alternatives,” Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, told Bloomberg News . The spotlight is on the cost …

I’ve seen a lot of promising AI prototypes fall apart after launch. And it’s rarely because the model was bad. More often, the problem starts much earlier; teams treat the data layer like something they can figure out later. They’ll spend weeks fine-tuning prompts, testing models and debating evaluation scores, then throw together the retrieval pipeline over a weekend and move on. At first, every…

Agentic AI has moved from conference hype to a budget line item. This is where the conversation gets more interesting and more uncomfortable. Unlike traditional AI systems that respond to a single prompt, classify a document, recommend an action, or generate a summary, agentic AI systems are designed to pursue goals. They plan, call tools, inspect results, retry failed steps, consult memory, hand…

Microsoft has announced Coreutils, a new Windows 11 feature that allows developers to run many popular Linux command line utilities natively on Windows from a single binary. Revealed at this week’s Build 2026 developer conference in Seattle, Coreutils is about reducing what Microsoft terms the “cognitive load” faced by developers when moving between Windows and other platforms. Currently, accessi…

For the past two years, enterprises have focused on grounding AI systems in internal documents, databases and knowledge repositories. Microsoft now contends that the next challenge is giving those systems reliable access to the outside world as they move into production. At its ongoing annual Build conference, Microsoft unveiled Web IQ , a new suite of AI-native APIs designed to connect AI agents…

Google has released new tools that allow developers to run agentic AI workflows locally using Gemma 4 12B, a 12-billion-parameter model from Google DeepMind. In a blog post, the company said the model, combined with the Google AI Edge stack, can be used to build and test applications on everyday machines. The model-runtime combination supports capabilities such as autonomous data processing, visu…

For enterprises embracing AI-assisted development, writing code is no longer the hardest part. Operationalizing it is. Microsoft is targeting that challenge with Rayfin, a new open-source SDK and CLI unveiled at Build 2026. “ Rayfin turns backend development into a code-first workflow. Developers and coding agents can define a full application backend in code, including databases, business logic,…

Artificial intelligence does not advance at the same pace across industries. It presses forward in some directions while lagging behind in others. Spend time with today’s most advanced AI applications, and this contrast becomes obvious. In software development, AI is quickly becoming ubiquitous. It writes production-ready code, explains obscure libraries, and iterates at a pace human teams have d…

Angular’s introduction of Signals has generated both excitement and confusion. For many developers, Signals appear to be “simpler observables” or a more convenient way to trigger updates without subscriptions. Others attempt to map them directly onto familiar RxJS patterns, expecting emissions, operators, and event-style coordination. Both interpretations miss the point. Signals are not primarily…

AI governance is an ongoing game of catch-up for enterprises. Model updates and iterations are rolling out at a rapid clip, often making governance frameworks obsolete before they’re battle-tested. To evolve beyond this paradigm, OpenAI is introducing Active sessions . This new ChatGPT security feature allows users to review and log out of one or more sessions through a simple interface. The feat…

A vulnerability in GitHub’s browser-based VSCode editor could lead to the theft of a developer’s token under certain circumstances, says a researcher. The issue, revealed this week in a blog by Ammar Askar , has apparently been already addressed by GitHub owner Microsoft. But it raises a questions about both DevOps security, and about the researcher’s allegation that, because Microsoft doesn’t tr…

A veritable garden of linters and type checkers has blossomed in the Python ecosystem. Pyright and Mypy are two of the most popular, while Astral’s ty and Meta’s Pyrefly are two promising Rust-based newcomers. We compared early-stage ty and Pyrefly last June . One year later, Meta has released Pyrefly 1.0 . Pyrefly is intended to stand out from the pack by way of a few key features. It’s written …