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The latest update to Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s mostly-open-source code editor , brings several new capabilities to GitHub Copilot Chat and puts the finishing touches on support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Alongside the VS Code update, Microsoft has open-sourced the GitHub Copilot Chat extension. Released July 9 , Visual Studio Code 1.102, also known as the June 2025 version, can b…

TypeScript 5.9, an update to Microsoft’s JavaScript superset with syntax for types , has arrived in beta, bringing support for the ECMAScript 2005’s deferred module evaluation. Announced July 8 , TypeScript 5.9 also offers capabilities such as a preview of expandable hovers, allowing developers to more easily view the details of variable types. Current users who want to update to TypeScript 5.9 c…

Experienced developers can take 19% longer to complete tasks when using popular AI assistants like Cursor Pro and Claude, challenging the tech industry’s prevailing narrative about AI coding tools, according to a comprehensive new study. The research, conducted by Model Evaluation & Threat Research (METR), tracked 16 seasoned open-source developers as they completed 246 real-world coding tasks on…

Python gets in on the agentic AI revolution, and you can, too, with the new Google Agent Development Kit. Also, get started with editable installs to make local Python development easier, use the Python client API to tap into Google’s Data Commons libraries, and watch lazy annotations at work in Python 3.14. That and more—all in this week’s edition of The Python Report. Top picks for Python reade…

For years, hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have dominated the market by providing a comprehensive ecosystem tailored to the needs of businesses of all sizes. These platforms deliver agility and global access, attracting enterprises with promises of simplified infrastructure, flexibility, and efficiency. However, time has exposed significant flaws in this approach, espe…

Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen says Ada, a system programming language whose initial development dates back to the late 1970s, could outlast similarly aged languages like Visual Basic, Perl, and Fortran in the language popularity race. In comments on this month’s Tiobe language popularity index , posted July 9, Jansen said the index has not seen much change among leading languages such as Python , C# , an…

Managing cloud costs in Azure has become one of the biggest challenges for technology teams. While Azure offers flexibility and power, it also makes it easy to overspend. Resources are often left running, services are overprovisioned and budgets get blown without warning. What’s changed recently is that artificial intelligence can now take on much of this burden. Microsoft has integrated AI into …

The Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler is a component of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) in .NET that converts Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code into the native code that is executed by the computer. The JIT compiler compiles the CIL code at run time, hence the name. However, you might often want to tweak the JIT compiler to optimize the performance of your applications. You can apply specific a…

Technologies like Model Context Protocol (MCP) are reshaping both how we build AI-powered applications and what we can do with them. By providing a standard way of describing and accessing information stored in our applications, MCP makes it easier to add AI features to existing code and services. MCP also unlocks the ability to access that information with new user interfaces and support for sof…

Google has released its Gemma 3n AI model, positioned as an advancement for on-device AI and bringing multimodal capabilities and higher performance to edge devices. Previewed in May , Gemma 3n is multimodal by design, with native support for image, audio, video, and text inputs and outputs, Google said. Optimized for edge devices such as phones, tablets, laptops, desktops, or single cloud accele…

Oracle and AWS have expanded their collaboration to make the Oracle Database@AWS service generally available in the US. The Oracle Database@AWS service, previewed in September last year, is a continuation of Oracle’s strategy to partner with hyperscalers to offer its database services in the latter’s infrastructure. In September 2023, Oracle started collocating its Oracle database hardware (inclu…

A common use case in generative AI is developing an agent , which is a system users interact with in plain language to accomplish a given task. Creating AI agents can require a lot of heavy lifting, even when you’re leveraging an existing commercial model. Google recently released the Agent Development Kit , a library for Python and Java that handles many boilerplate aspects of creating AI agents…

The debate about intelligence versus wisdom is as old as history, but artificial intelligence has transformed it into an intensely practical question. The cheaper professional knowledge becomes, the more precious it is to know how to wield it. It’s becoming ever clearer that the most valuable thing is not just the power to do things but wielding it effectively. Formulating and comprehending aims …

Really big changes don’t happen in the programming world very often. I’ve been lucky to be around long enough to see a couple of them. And we are all lucky enough to be seeing one today. I remember well the heady days in the mid-1990s when rapid application development was changing the way software was built. Being able to produce a Windows application with a few drag-n-drops and a few lines of c…

AI platform company Clarifai has launched AI Runners, an offering designed to give developers and MLops engineers flexible options for deploying and managing AI models. Unveiled July 8, AI Runners let users connect models running on local machines or private servers directly to Clarifai’s AI platform via a publicly accessible API, the company said. Noting the rise of agentic AI , Clarifai said AI…