Topic: microsoft

April 11, 2025: AI updates from the past week — Google’s new tools for building AI agents, agent mode in GitHub Copilot, and more

Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are constantly releasing new models and features. It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share several notable updates around AI that software developers should know about.  Google announces … continue reading

Mar 28, 2025: AI updates from the past week — Gemini 2.5, OpenAI 4o image generation, new reasoning agents from Microsoft, and more

Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and AI companies are constantly releasing new models and features. It can be hard to keep up with it all, so we’ve written this roundup to share several notable updates around AI that software developers should know about.  Google releases … continue reading

Microsoft has been working on a native implementation of TypeScript

Microsoft has announced it has been working on creating a native implementation of the TypeScript compiler and tools, significantly improving editor startup time, reducing build time, and drastically cutting down on memory usage. TypeScript is a language that builds on JavaScript, but according to Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of TypeScript, JavaScript does have its limitations.  … continue reading

Mar 7, 2025: 10 AI updates from the past week

Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and it can be hard to keep up with it all. We’ve written this roundup to share updates from 10 notable companies that have recently enhanced their products with AI.  JFrog launches end-to-end DevSecOps platform for deploying AI applications JFrog … continue reading

Feb 28, 2025: 10 AI updates from the past week

Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and it can be hard to keep up with it all. We’ve written this roundup to share updates from 10 notable companies that have recently enhanced their products with AI.  OpenAI announces research preview of GPT-4.5 OpenAI is calling GPT-4.5 … continue reading

.NET Aspire 9.1 released with several dashboard improvements

Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Aspire 9.1, which adds several new features to the dashboard. .NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages for building apps that rely on multiple different resources, and according to Microsoft, the .NET Aspire dashboard “allows you to closely track various aspects of your app, including … continue reading

Feb 21, 2025: Development tools that have recently added new AI capabilities

Software companies are constantly trying to add more and more AI features to their platforms, and it can be hard to keep up with it all. We’ve written this roundup to share updates from 10 notable companies that have recently enhanced their products with AI.  OpenAI expands Operator to more countries Operator is now available … continue reading

Visual Studio adds support for code referencing of GitHub Copilot completions

Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio now supports code referencing for GitHub Copilot completions. Code referencing enables developers to verify if the suggestions coming from Copilot are based on public code, which could potentially lead to open-source licensing issues depending on what the developer is using the code for.  “By integrating code referencing into GitHub … continue reading

DeepSeek R1 is now available on Azure AI Foundry

Microsoft has announced that DeepSeek R1 is now available through Azure AI Foundry and GitHub. DeepSeek is an open source AI model created in China that has been a topic of conversation over the past week after claims of how the model was seemingly trained for a fraction of what U.S.-based AI companies have spent … continue reading

What’s new from Microsoft Ignite 2024

Microsoft’s annual development and IT conference, Microsoft Ignite, kicked off this morning, with announcements ranging from updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot to a new bug bounty event for AI vulnerabilities.  Here is a list of some of the highlights from the event:  Microsoft 365 Copilot updates The company announced several new capabilities across Microsoft 365 … continue reading

.NET 9 is now available with several performance improvements

.NET 9 is now available, and with it comes a number of performance improvements and new functionality to support developers building with AI.  According to Microsoft, this release features over 1,000 performance updates, one of which is that the Server GC has been altered to adapt to application memory requirements instead of the resources available … continue reading

GitHub Copilot chat now provides guidance on rewording prompts

GitHub Copilot’s chat functionality is being updated to provide developers guidance on how to reword their prompts so that they can get better responses.  Microsoft shared that user feedback on GitHub Copilot indicated that some developers struggle with creating prompts, including understanding phrasing and what context to include.  “In some cases, the experience left users … continue reading

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