Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Sonnet 4.6 features improved skills in coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. It is now the default model in claude.ai and Claude Cowork, has a 1M context window (beta), and is priced the same as Sonnet 4.5, at $3 per million input tokens and … continue reading
Microsoft has announced a beta for TypeScript 6.0, which will be the last release of the language using the JavaScript codebase. The company announced last year that it was working on a native implementation of TypeScript written in Go, in an attempt to improve editor startup time, reduce build time, and cut down on memory … continue reading
Google unveils new open-source standard for agentic commerce Google has announced a new open-source standard for agentic commerce called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). Developed in collaboration with a number of commerce companies, including Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target, and Walmart, UCP establishes a common language and primitives for the commerce journey between consumer surfaces, businesses, … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Copilot Studio Extension for Visual Studio Code. The extension allows developers to build and manage Copilot Studio agents directly from within their IDE. According to Microsoft, the extension is useful because developers need to have similar controls and processes when developing agents as they do for other … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that it has open sourced XAML Studio, a developer tool that can be used to quickly prototype UWP XAML before adding code to Visual Studio. It provides a number of tools and resources for XAML development, including live editing and interacting, a binding debugger, a data context editor, the ability to auto-save … continue reading
Microsoft has announced it is acquiring the agentic AI data engineering platform, Osmos. It plans to incorporate the new technology into its data platform Microsoft Fabric. According to Microsoft, Osmos’ AI agents turn raw data into analytics and AI-ready assets that can be used by OneLake, which is Fabric’s unified data lake. Microsoft says that … continue reading
Several new updates make their way into the MCP specification It has been one year since Anthropic first open sourced Model Context Protocol (MCP), and to celebrate this anniversary a new version of the specification is being released. “It’s hard to imagine that a little open-source experiment, a protocol to provide context to models, became … continue reading
During the Microsoft Ignite conference, Microsoft announced several new products and features designed to enable the agent-powered enterprise. “The future of work will be shaped by Frontier Firms—organizations that are human-led and agent-operated. These companies are reshaping how work gets done, empowering every employee with an AI assistant, amplifying impact with human-agent teamwork, and reinventing … continue reading
OpenAI’s latest update delivers GPT-5.1 models and capabilities to give users more control over ChatGPT’s personality According to the company, users will now have more control over ChatGPT’s tone and style. It had added a few preset tone options earlier this year, and now it is refining the options and adding new ones. The existing … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET 10, the latest Long Term Support (LTS) release of .NET that will receive support for the next three years. As such, Microsoft is encouraging development teams to migrate their production applications to this version to take advantage of that extended support window. This release features several performance improvements … continue reading
Microsoft has announced that Aspire is now polyglot and can be used across multiple languages, frameworks, and services. “Whether you’re building in C#, Python, JavaScript, or integrating services like Redis, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Aspire provides a unified way to develop, observe, and deploy any application,” Microsoft wrote in a blog post. This evolution of Aspire has been … continue reading
OpenAI today announced that it has completed the restructuring of its business. When the company was founded in 2015, it was launched as a non-profit organization and that non-profit has controlled the for-profit arm of the business. Today’s restructuring turns the for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation called OpenAI PBC. The OpenAI Foundation—the new … continue reading
