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Developer Confidence in AI Is Dropping, Even as Use Rises

AI has become a go-to tool for writing code, but the developers using it are growing more skeptical of its output. New research from Stack Overflow reveals 84 percent of programmers saying they’re planning to or are using AI in their workflows, up eight points from last year. Yet nearly half—46 percent—say they no longer […]

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Ai2’s FlexOlmo Lets You Co-Develop AI Language Models Without Sharing Data

Ai2 has unveiled FlexOlmo, a new framework that lets multiple organizations jointly develop language models without requiring centralized data pooling. Ideal for those in regulated industries, it provides developers with granular control over how and when their data influences the model, addressing long-standing concerns regarding privacy, IP protection, and data sovereignty in collaborative AI projects. […]

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Genies’ AI Avatar Tech Coming to Unity Editor in 2026

Genies, a gaming technology company, is partnering with Unity to bring its customizable AI avatars and asset creation tools to Unity’s Asset Store and Unity Editor. Developers will now have access to game, entertainment, celebrity, and sports IP-driven avatars that they can incorporate into games. The expectation is that this will free resources up to […]

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Ai2’s SciArena Benchmarks AI for Science, Inspired by ChatBot Arena

Nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has launched a new platform to help researchers evaluate which AI models perform best on scientific literature tasks. Called SciArena, it’s an open, collaborative service that enables head-to-head comparisons of large language models. Think ChatBot Arena—but built for the scientific research community. “Measuring progress in using AI agents for literature-grounded scientific […]

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Salesforce Wants to Scale Digital Labor. Agentforce 3 Is the Plan.

Salesforce is scaling up its agentic development platform, adding features to help organizations embrace the hybrid workforce paradigm. Agentforce 3 is the latest in a series of rapid-fire innovations from the enterprise tech giant. This release introduces a new Command Center for overseeing AI agents, adds support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across Agentforce […]

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Microsoft Pushes AI to the Edge

IN THIS ISSUE: Microsoft pushes AI innovation to the edge. Will OpenAI crack the AI hardware market, a space where many have stumbled, after acquiring Sir Jony Ive’s AI startup for nearly $6.5 billion? Plus, catch up on this week’s key headlines you might have missed, including what was announced at Google I/O and the […]

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AI Agents Are Coming to Windows—Here’s How Microsoft Is Making It Happen

Human-agent collaboration is moving beyond the cloud. It’s coming to the edge. At its 2025 Build conference, Microsoft unveiled the Windows AI Foundry, a development platform that will bring model building, fine-tuning, and local deployment capabilities to Windows 11. The company also announced native support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a framework that allows […]

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Microsoft Unveils a No-Code Digital Twin Tool in Fabric

Microsoft wants to make building digital twins as easy as dragging and dropping, and it has a new tool to do it. At its 2025 Build conference, the company previewed its digital twin builder that will be available in Fabric, its data and analytics platform. A digital twin is perhaps a virtual replica of a […]

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Microsoft’s NLWeb Project Turns Websites into Conversational Interfaces for AI Agents

Microsoft is reimagining how people interact with autonomous agents through a new open project called NLWeb. Designed to bring natural language interfaces to websites, it transforms ordinary web pages into conversational agents, enabling users to interact directly with the site’s content. The company is betting on this to be as impactful on the agentic web […]

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The New GitHub Copilot Agent Doesn’t Just Help You Code—it Codes for You

GitHub’s coding assistant has leveled up, shifting from an in-editor assistant to an autonomous agent capable of implementing tasks or issues. This is an escalation in the vibe coming space and takes place four years after GitHub Copilot was first introduced. Internally dubbed Project Padawan, the new GitHub Copilot coding agent brings deeper integration of […]