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GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code

GitHub Blog

Discover how to use VS Code to interact with GitHub and maintain your projects. The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with Git and GitHub in VS Code appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Pope Leo calls for being ‘profoundly human’ in the age of AI

The Verge AI

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 h...

Hackers are learning to exploit chatbot ‘personalities’

The Verge AI

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 f...

Google’s new anything-to-anything AI model is wild

The Verge AI

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 ad...

GitHub recognized as a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Enterprise AI Coding Agents for the third year in a row

GitHub Blog

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 ...

Elon, stop trying to make Grok happen

The Verge AI

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 A...

Google’s AI search is so broken it can ‘disregard’ what you’re looking for

The Verge AI

Google's AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. As of this writing, if you search for the term "disregard," instead of showing the usual AI-generated summary of search results, the AI Overview section instead includes a response like w...

The literary world isn’t prepared for AI

The Verge AI

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...

Why would you disrespect your favorite artist with an AI remix?

The Verge AI

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. No...

Samsung’s memory chip employees negotiated $340,000 bonuses this year

The Verge AI

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 Samsun...

DevExpress Blazor AI Chat — Multi-Model Support, MCP Server Integration, and a Look at What's Coming Next

DevExpress

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...

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.

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.

Plan Before You Build: Introducing the Plan agent in Visual Studio

Visual Studio Blog

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...

Announcing Agent Governance Toolkit MCP Extensions for .NET

.NET 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 ap...

Improving C# Memory Safety

.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 p...