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GitHub unveiled Agent HQ at its Universe 2025 event, a new platform that lets developers orchestrate multiple AI agents across GitHub and Visual Studio Code through unified mission control, planning tools, and enterprise-grade governance.
10/28/2025
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Microsoft expanded GitHub Copilot’s AI functionality to Apple’s Xcode, JetBrains IDEs, and the open-source Eclipse project, introducing new MCP Registry and Allowlist Controls features now in public preview.
10/28/2025
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The feature extends GitHub Copilot's Agent Mode to handle larger, multi-step coding tasks with structured reasoning, transparency, and progress tracking.
10/23/2025
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Combit released List & Label 31, introducing a cross-platform .NET engine, AI-powered reporting features, and expanded integration for Avalonia, Blazor, and cloud environments like Azure and AWS.
10/16/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of Tsetlin Machine binary classification using the C# language. Tsetlin Machine models have characteristics of propositional logic, rule-based systems, and finite state automata. Tsetlin Machine systems require predictor values to be binary encoded and therefore the systems are very flexible and computationally efficient in terms of each operation, but computationally expensive in terms of number of operations.
10/15/2025
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Managing SQL Server across hybrid and multi-cloud environments has long posed a challenge for database administrators. To help meet that challenge, Gilda Alvarez will explain the nuts and bolts at the upcoming Live! 360 dev/tech conference
10/14/2025
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Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code September 2025 release (v1.105.0) introduces major AI-driven enhancements across chat, agents, and the Model Context Protocol, along with OS integration, productivity upgrades, and improved accessibility.
10/13/2025
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A roundup of the six most-installed "agentic" AI extensions in the VS Code Marketplace reveals how tools like Cline, BLACKBOXAI Agent, Continue, Codex, Roo Code, and Qodo Gen are transforming code editors into autonomous, context-aware development partners.
10/07/2025
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Microsoft’s latest Visual Studio AI roadmap reveals plans to natively integrate remote AI agents--like the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent--directly into Copilot Chat, alongside a wave of improvements spanning agent performance, chat functionality, and new model support.
10/06/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of linear regression with two-way interactions between predictor variables. Standard linear regression predicts a single numeric value based only on a linear combination of predictor values. Linear regression with interactions between predictor variables can handle more complex data while retaining a high level of model interpretability.
10/01/2025
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Microsoft launched the open-source Microsoft Agent Framework, unifying Semantic Kernel and AutoGen to simplify building, orchestrating, and deploying AI agents and workflows in Python and .NET.
10/01/2025
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Microsoft released .NET Aspire 9.5 with a single-file AppHost option, a new Generative AI Visualizer, expanded integrations for GitHub Models, Azure AI Foundry, and OpenAI, along with lifecycle and logging improvements for distributed cloud-native .NET applications.
09/29/2025
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GitHub Copilot app modernization is now generally available in Visual Studio, providing AI-powered upgrades and Azure migration for .NET apps, with automated remediation, CVE scanning, and containerization support.
09/25/2025
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Lino Tadros discusses how Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry enables developers to build and deploy intelligent, secure, and scalable AI agents for enterprise environments in this Q&A in advance of his Live! 360 Orlando workshop.
09/23/2025
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Microsoft PM Carlos Robles previews his Live! 360 Orlando session on how recent updates to the MSSQL extension—like GitHub Copilot integration, Schema Designer, and local SQL containers—are transforming SQL development inside Visual Studio Code. Designed for developers, not DBAs, the session showcases how VS Code can streamline database work and unify application and SQL workflows in one tool.
09/22/2025
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Gartner's new Magic Quadrant for AI Code Assistants report shows GitHub Copilot leading the market while forecasting near-universal enterprise adoption of AI coding assistants by 2028.
09/17/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the kernel ridge regression technique to predict a single numeric value. The demo uses the kernel matrix inverse (Cholesky decomposition) technique for model training. There is no single best machine learning regression technique, but when kernel ridge regression prediction works, it is often highly accurate.
09/15/2025
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Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.104, adding Auto model selection and support for contributed language models in chat, alongside security, productivity, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) improvements.
09/11/2025
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Microsoft unveiled Visual Studio 2026 Insiders at VSLive! San Diego, introducing deep GitHub Copilot integration, performance and productivity upgrades, a Fluent UI redesign with new themes, and the new Insiders Channel to replace Preview.
09/09/2025
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Microsoft introduced the Awesome Copilot MCP Server for GitHub Copilot customizations as the MCP community unveiled the official MCP Registry, a cross-company catalog for discovering servers.
09/09/2025
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Microsoft Copilot Studio now offers near-real-time protection for AI agents in public preview, enabling integration with Defender and third-party systems to block unsafe actions during runtime.
09/08/2025
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Azure AI Foundry’s August 2025 update brings the GPT-5 family of models, previews a new Browser Automation tool, and expands Agent Service availability to more regions.
09/08/2025
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By integrating GitHub Copilot directly into Visual Studio's diagnostic workflow, the new Copilot Diagnostics toolset promises to transform how developers identify, understand, and resolve performance issues and bugs.
09/04/2025
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GitHub’s open-source Spec Kit formalizes spec-driven development for AI coding agents by providing a CLI, templates, and prompts that move work through specification, plan, tasks, and implementation, with details in the announcement and code in the repository.
09/03/2025
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Microsoft detailed its plans for advanced AI in its flagship IDE in September, with new modes for debugging and profiling, as well as enhancements for agentic DevOps, in the works.
09/03/2025