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Pope Leo XIV warned of the risks of AI and unconstrained technological power in his first major papal document released on Monday. Magnifica Humanitas is the pope's manifesto on "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence," in which he discusses the dangers of AI-powered warfare, the effects of AI on labor, and […]

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI mischief, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Hacking the first generation of AI chatbots was a laughably simple affair. […]

Last year I deepfaked my kid's stuffed animal to make it look like his plush deer was on vacation. It was an experiment to see if I could re-create the events depicted in a Gemini ad Google was running, and I never showed the videos of Buddy the deer on his adventures to my four-year-old. […]

Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. Earlier on Friday, if you searched for the term "disregard," the AI Overview section would include a response like what you'd see from a more traditional AI chatbot instead of the typical AI summary, as spotted on X. As you can see in the […]

We are committed to empowering every developer by building an open, secure, and AI-powered platform that defines the future of software development. The post GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents for the third year in a row appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk's "truth-seeking" AI chatbot Grok: It's not very good, and not many people are using it. That's the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barely appears in federal records of how the US government used AI last year. It's not the only sign xAI's […]

Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI. Jamir Nazir's "The Serpent in the Grove" has many of the hallmarks […]

AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight on the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash in flat reggae versions of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," dinky country renditions of The Weeknd, and monotonous Motown reimaginings of AC/DC. Now, a new tool from Spotify will make them even easier to generate and […]

Details have emerged about a tentative deal struck between Samsung and semiconductor employees who had threatened to strike. The deal reportedly makes some workers eligible for average annual bonuses of $340,000. The proposed 18-day strike had hinged on Samsung's bonus cap for employees in the semiconductor division and followed a substantial rise in the possible […]

OpenAI is named a leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents, with Codex recognized for innovation and enterprise-scale deployment.

How Virgin Atlantic used Codex to ship its revamped mobile app on a fixed holiday travel deadline, reaching near-total unit test coverage and zero P1 defects.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead. After nearly a month, […]

At NVIDIA GTC Taipei at COMPUTEX, the world’s developers, researchers and industry leaders are converging to dive into the latest breakthroughs shaping every industry, covering topics spanning AI factories and scaling infrastructure to agentic and physical AI and more.

University graduates are booing and heckling corporate executives who praise AI during their commencement ceremonies, and the only people who seem to be genuinely surprised by this are the executives themselves. In a procession of viral videos, 2026 commencement speakers like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt face loud and sustained jeers from students after praising […]

AdventHealth is using ChatGPT for Healthcare to streamline workflows, reduce administrative burden, and return more time to patient care.

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.

OpenAI advances Education for Countries, expanding AI adoption in schools with new partnerships, teacher training, and tools to improve global learning outcomes.

You ask Copilot to tackle something big, it gets to work, and a dozen file changes later you realize you had a completely different approach in mind. The code isn’t wrong… it just isn’t what you were going for. Last year, we introduced planning as a feature in Agent mode to help with exactly this. […] The post Plan Before You Build: Introducing the Plan agent in Visual Studio appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Announcing a Public Preview .NET package that adds policy enforcement, startup tool scanning, fallback governance, and response sanitization to MCP servers with a single builder extension. The post Announcing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET appeared first on .NET Blog.

The `unsafe` keyword is being redesigned to mark caller-facing contracts rather than just syntax. Safety obligations between callers and callees become visible and reviewable. The model is motivated by the rise of AI-assisted code generation and arrives as a preview in .NET 11. The post Improving C# Memory Safety appeared first on .NET Blog.

Package pruning in .NET 10 removes platform-provided packages from your dependency graph. With transitive auditing enabled by default, projects with these defaults have 70% fewer transitive vulnerability reports compared to projects using the previous defaults. The post NuGet Package Pruning: Cleaner Dependencies and Actionable Vulnerability Reports appeared first on .NET Blog.

If you lead a development team, you already know the pattern. You approve the travel, your developers attend a great conference, they come back energized, and then the work resumes exactly as it was. The ideas don’t survive contact with the backlog. This July at VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ in Redmond, we’re trying to change […] The post VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026: Send Your Team Home With Working Code appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Process API improvements in .NET 11, including high-level APIs for starting processes, capturing output without deadlocks, handle inheritance control, lifetime management features, and a lightweight `SafeProcessHandle`-based API surface. The post Process API Improvements in .NET 11 appeared first on .NET Blog.

.NET MAUI apps on Android, iOS, and Mac Catalyst now run on CoreCLR by default in .NET 11, unifying the runtime across all of .NET. The post .NET MAUI Moves to CoreCLR in .NET 11 appeared first on .NET Blog.

Visual Studio now supports Agent Skills, which are reusable instruction sets that teach Copilot agents how to handle specific tasks like running a build pipeline, generating boilerplate, or following your team’s coding standards. Define a skill once, and the agent applies it automatically whenever it’s relevant. Creating a skill You can create a skill directly […] The post Agent Skills in Visual Studio: Teach Copilot How Your Team Works appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 4 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, and more! The post .NET 11 Preview 4 is now available! appeared first on .NET Blog.

Find out about the new features in .NET 11 Preview 4 across the .NET runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, C#, Entity Framework Core, and more! The post .NET 11 Preview 4 is now available! appeared first on .NET Blog.

A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for May 2026. The post .NET and .NET Framework May 2026 servicing releases updates appeared first on .NET Blog.

Microsoft Copilot Studio recently upgraded its .NET WebAssembly engine to .NET 10. The migration was straightforward, simplified deployment, and delivered another round of meaningful performance gains for end users. The post Copilot Studio gets faster with .NET 10 on WebAssembly appeared first on .NET Blog.

Build durable AI agent workflows with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Start with in-process console apps, add durability with the Durable Task runtime, scale with parallel AI agents, and host on Azure Functions for serverless execution. The post Durable Workflows in the Microsoft Agent Framework appeared first on .NET Blog.

Build intelligent AI agents in .NET with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Learn how to create agents with tools, multi-turn conversations, memory, and graph-based workflows that bring together the building blocks from Parts 1 and 2. The post Microsoft Agent Framework – Building Blocks for AI Part 3 appeared first on .NET Blog.

Build intelligent AI agents in .NET with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Learn how to create agents with tools, multi-turn conversations, memory, and graph-based workflows that bring together the building blocks from Parts 1 and 2. The post Microsoft Agent Framework – Building Blocks for AI Part 3 appeared first on .NET Blog.

TypeScript 7 Beta Now Enabled by Default in Visual Studio 2026 18.6 Insiders 3 In Visual Studio 2026 18.6 Insiders 3 we have updated the built-in TypeScript SDK to TypeScript 7 Beta (native preview). The TypeScript SDK provides the compiler and language service used for TypeScript and JavaScript support in Visual Studio. This update impacts any […] The post TypeScript 7 Beta Now Enabled by Default in Visual Studio 2026 18.6 Insiders 3 appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Starting in Visual Studio 18.5, you can create and build Visual Studio extensions (VSIX) using an officially supported SDK-style project. This brings VSIX projects into the modern build and deployment pipeline, improving incremental build performance and making the build → deploy → debug workflow more reliable. Install the Visual Studio extension development workload to get […] The post SDK-Style Support for Extension Projects appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio is becoming more agentic with every release. This update brings cloud agent integration front and center, letting you start remote coding sessions without leaving the IDE. The post Visual Studio April Update – Cloud Agent Integration appeared first on Visual Studio Blog.

Adding caching to your application architecture can significantly improve key performance metrics, cut latency, and reduce load across downstream systems. In this walkthrough, we highlight the latest caching best practices and incorporate these design patterns into a reusable .NET application that you can reference when adding new capabilities to your application stack. The post High-Performance Distributed Caching with .NET and Postgres on Azure appeared first on .NET Blog.

The C# Dev Kit team replaced C++ Node.js addons with C# and Native AOT, removing a dependency on Python. This post walks through building a Node.js native addon entirely in C# using N-API, LibraryImport, and UnmanagedCallersOnly. The post Writing Node.js addons with .NET Native AOT appeared first on .NET Blog.

We continue to extend the capabilities of the DevExpress Blazor AI Chat component and publish GitHub examples designed to address real-world usage scenarios. This post highlights two new examples: a multi-model chat with persistent conversation history, and MC...

If you ship apps to customers in the EU, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) will require a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) as part of your conformity documentation. SBOM generation and CRA compliance are top priorities for DevExpress, and CycloneDX SBOM files fo...

...And we shall be there! Not in Seattle this year, but, for a change, in San Francisco. To be more accurate, Microsoft Build will be at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, CA. for two full days, June 2-3. As is usual, sessions will also be broadcast online.Th...

In this post, I want to show you how to effectively upgrade vulnerable third-party dependencies in your projects, highlight .NET industry best practices, and also clarify how DevExpress helps you mitigate security-related risks in general. For illustration pur...

Every application that stores passwords makes an implicit bet: that the hashing algorithm it chose will remain strong enough to resist attacks for as long as those hashes exist. It’s worth revisiting that bet regularly. This post walks through the reasoning be...

A developer asks: “How do I protect my connection string in a desktop application?” This is one of the most common security questions in .NET development, and it sounds like it should have a straightforward answer. But there is a fundamental problem we need to...

As you probably know, Microsoft Multilingual App Toolkit (MAT) support ended on October 15, 2025. Since MAT is no longer supported, this post documents localization-related alternatives available to the Microsoft developer community. What MAT Deprecation Means...

As previously announced, DevExpress Blazor deprecated support for Bootstrap v4 in our v25.1 release cycle. With v26.1, we expect to complete our transition away from Bootstrap v4 by removing support as follows: The DevExpress.Blazor.Themes package will no long...

In our v25.2 release, we introduced a preview of our AI-powered custom SVG skin palette feature. This feature transforms how you design application color schemes. It leverages generative AI to interpret natural language instructions and create cohesive palette...

Thank you for choosing XAF (Cross-Platform .NET App UI & Web API Service) for your software development needs. This blog post outlines some of our XAF-related development plans for the first half of 2026 (v26.1, set for release in June 2026).First, if you have...