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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, 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’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
Microsoft has announced that GitHub Copilot is now integrated with Data Wrangler, an extension for VS Code for viewing, cleaning, and preparing data. By integrating GitHub Copilot capabilities into the tool, users will now be able to clean and transform data in VS Code with natural language prompts. It will also be able to provide … continue reading
Microsoft is continuing to improve generative AI across Windows with new updates to Microsoft 365 Copilot. The company has announced that the ability for users to create their own autonomous agents in Copilot Studio is moving from private to public preview next month. Agents can be triggered by specific events and act on their own, … continue reading
