Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code 1.124 with smarter autonomous AI agents

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio Code update aims to accelerate developer workflows by giving AI assistants the green light ...

100 Microsoft Copilot Agents Tested : Only 5 Essentials You Actually Need

Microsoft Copilot agents have been tested to find the five essential tools you need to manage emails, track meetings, and ...
MIT Technology Review

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...
Variety

Seth Rogen Says if You Use AI to Write Scripts, Then ‘You Shouldn’t Be a Writer’: ‘Go Do Something Else’

Seth Rogen told Brut at the Cannes Film Festival that if you use AI to write your stories or scripts, then you “shouldn’t be a writer.” “I don’t understand what it’s supposed to do,” Rogen said when ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”

'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else." By McKinley Franklin Don’t expect Seth ...
Windows Report

Report: Microsoft “Winding Down” Claude Code Use Internally in Favor of GitHub Copilot CLI

Microsoft appears to be gearing up to change the way engineers within the company use its AI coding tools, with a new report hinting that Microsoft is reducing reliance on Anthropic’s Claude Code in ...
The Verge

Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses

Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead Thousands of Microsoft developers will use GitHub Copilot CLI instead is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has ...
GitHub

Academic Research Skills for Claude Code

Then try /ars-plan to walk through your paper structure via Socratic dialogue, or jump to Quick install for prerequisites and the traditional symlink flow. AI is your copilot, not the pilot. This tool ...
TechSpot

Microsoft made Copilot a co-author on every VS Code project, reverted after developers revolted

Micro-Slop: After injecting Copilot into nearly every software product and service it could, Microsoft has reportedly begun rolling back some of its most disruptive AI-related changes. Now, a new "AI ...
VentureBeat

Claude Code, Copilot and Codex all got hacked. Every attacker went for the credential, not the model.

On March 30, BeyondTrust proved that a crafted GitHub branch name could steal Codex’s OAuth token in cleartext. OpenAI classified it Critical P1. Two days later, Anthropic’s Claude Code source code ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Curbs Token Use Ahead of Copilot's Controversial Usage-Based Billing Switch

VS Code 1.118 ships a suite of token efficiency features -- including prompt caching with 93% reuse rates and a tool search tool with up to 20% token savings -- just two days after GitHub's ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...