From code-first to intent-first: Microsoft Build 2026 could be the end of programming as we know it

Build 2026 runs from June 2-3 in San Francisco. Here's what Microsoft is expected to announce for GitHub Copilot, Azure AI ...
The New YorkerOpinion

Boots Riley, Marx Brother

On a cool, drizzly day in Oakland, California, the film director Boots Riley often seemed less like a person than like a ...

Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code 1.124 with smarter autonomous AI agents

Microsoft's latest Visual Studio Code update aims to accelerate developer workflows by giving AI assistants the green light ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code 1.121 Adds Remote Agents, Boosts Claude Code Functionality Again

VS Code 1.121 was released May 20, 2026, featuring yet another update to Claude Code, becoming more and more a first-class citizen in the VS Code ecosystem. Remote agents can run over SSH or dev ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with the New Agents Window in VS Code 1.120

VS Code 1.120 brings the Agents window to Stable preview. The new window opens from a title-bar button. Agent customizations include Agents, Skills, Instructions, Hooks, MCP Servers and Plugins. It ...
Cult of Mac

Get a Visual Studio Pro lifetime license on sale for $35 (regularly $499.99)

Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2026 is a full coding environment for building, testing, debugging and collaborating on software projects. It doesn’t run on our beloved Macs, but we know that some Cult of ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash, its first in-house model for turning written descriptions into working source code

Developers who rely on GitHub Copilot inside Visual Studio Code now have a new option built entirely by Microsoft. The ...
TechCrunch

Google’s AI Studio now lets anyone build Android apps in minutes

The AI coding boom is now coming directly for Android app development. On Tuesday at Google IO 2026, the company announced new native Android app creation capabilities in its web-based Google AI ...
Tech Times

GitHub Copilot Replaces GPT-4 With Project Polaris, Ships Multi-Agent VS Code at Build

GitHub Copilot multi-agent support for VS Code launched at Microsoft Build 2026 alongside Project Polaris, an in-house AI ...
MIT Technology Review

Anthropic’s Code with Claude showed off coding’s future—whether you like it or not

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...
The Guardian

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since ...

Pegasystems Inc. (PEGA) Presents at PegaWorld 2026 Transcript

I'm so excited to welcome you today to our 2026 investor session. To get started, I put our safe harbor up here on the screen. Certain statements in this presentation may be considered forward-looking ...