Visual Studio Code bolsters Copilot Chat, MCP support
The latest update to Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s mostly-open-source code editor, brings several new capabilities to GitHub Copilot Chat and puts the finishing touches on support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Alongside the VS Code update,...
TypeScript 5.9 supports deferred module evaluation
TypeScript 5.9, an update to Microsoft’s JavaScript superset with syntax for types, has arrived in beta, bringing support for the ECMAScript 2005’s deferred module evaluation. Announced July 8, TypeScript 5.9 also offers capabilities such as a pre...
AI coding tools can slow down seasoned developers by 19%
Experienced developers can take 19% longer to complete tasks when using popular AI assistants like Cursor Pro and Claude, challenging the tech industry’s prevailing narrative about AI coding tools, according to a comprehensive new study. The researc...
Python-powered AI agents are here
Python gets in on the agentic AI revolution, and you can, too, with the new Google Agent Development Kit. Also, get started with editable installs to make local Python development easier, use the Python client API to tap into Google’s Data Commons l...
Sovereign clouds in the age of cost control and AI
For years, hyperscalers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have dominated the market by providing a comprehensive ecosystem tailored to the needs of businesses of all sizes. These platforms deliver agility and global access, attracting ent...
How AI is quietly saving enterprises thousands on Azure costs
Managing cloud costs in Azure has become one of the biggest challenges for technology teams. While Azure offers flexibility and power, it also makes it easy to overspend. Resources are often left running, services are overprovisioned and budgets get b...
How to inline methods using MethodImplAttribute in C#
The Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler is a component of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) in .NET that converts Common Intermediate Language (CIL) code into the native code that is executed by the computer. The JIT compiler compiles the CIL code at run time...
NLWeb: Tapping MCP for natural language web search
Technologies like Model Context Protocol (MCP) are reshaping both how we build AI-powered applications and what we can do with them. By providing a standard way of describing and accessing information stored in our applications, MCP makes it easier to...
Advancing agentic AI development with Firebase Studio
Updates in Firebase Studio include new Agent modes, foundational support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and Gemini CLI integration, all designed to redefine AI-assisted development allow developers to create full-stack applications from a single...
Google releases Gemma 3n models for on-device AI
Google has released its Gemma 3n AI model, positioned as an advancement for on-device AI and bringing multimodal capabilities and higher performance to edge devices. Previewed in May, Gemma 3n is multimodal by design, with native support for image, au...
T5Gemma: A new collection of encoder-decoder Gemma models
T5Gemma is a new family of encoder-decoder LLMs developed by converting and adapting pretrained decoder-only models based on the Gemma 2 framework, offering superior performance and efficiency compared to its decoder-only counterparts, particularly for...
Get started with Google Agent Development Kit
A common use case in generative AI is developing an agent, which is a system users interact with in plain language to accomplish a given task. Creating AI agents can require a lot of heavy lifting, even when you’re leveraging an existing commercial ...
The ultimate software engineering abstraction
Really big changes don’t happen in the programming world very often. I’ve been lucky to be around long enough to see a couple of them. And we are all lucky enough to be seeing one today. I remember well the heady days in the mid-1990s when rapid ...
Clarifai AI Runners connect local models to cloud
AI platform company Clarifai has launched AI Runners, an offering designed to give developers and MLops engineers flexible options for deploying and managing AI models. Unveiled July 8, AI Runners let users connect models running on local machines or...
ECMAScript 2025 JavaScript standard approved
ECMAScript 2025, the latest version of the ECMA International standard for JavaScript, has been officially approved. The specification standardizes new JavaScript capabilities including JSON modules, import attributes, new Set methods, sync iterator h...
