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Microsoft brings Qwen3.8-27B agentic coding to developer PCs
For developersNovember 5, 2026, 15:00

Microsoft brings Qwen3.8-27B agentic coding to developer PCs

Microsoft Foundry is bringing agentic coding to local developer hardware with Foundry Local, Qwen3.8-27B and GitHub Copilot integration. The setup is designed to keep…

India leads in AI agent monitoring but pays the world's highest outage costs, New Relic finds
ResearchNovember 2, 2026, 13:00

India leads in AI agent monitoring but pays the world's highest outage costs, New Relic finds

Indian enterprises are ahead of every other market in monitoring AI agents and standardising on OpenTelemetry, but they also face the heaviest operational strain and the…

Products and tools
Products and toolsOctober 29, 2026, 00:15

Microsoft Cloud revenue tops $63B as Copilot and Foundry growth accelerates

Microsoft Cloud revenue surpassed $63B in the first quarter of the company's fiscal year, with growth accelerating to 30% year over year, according to CEO Satya Nadella.…

Slack Code API goes live, letting any developer's agent open code channels
Products and toolsOctober 28, 2026, 16:15

Slack Code API goes live, letting any developer's agent open code channels

The Slack Code API is now generally available on all Slack plans, according to Salesforce. Any developer can build an agent that starts a code channel, adds people and…

For developers
For developersOctober 28, 2026, 13:00

New Relic ties production telemetry to GitHub Copilot and MCP Server

New Relic has announced three integrations for GitHub Copilot and the GitHub Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, aimed at catching problems in AI-generated code before…

JetBrains Air Brings Multiple Coding Agents Into Its IDEs
Products and toolsOctober 28, 2026, 11:21

JetBrains Air Brings Multiple Coding Agents Into Its IDEs

JetBrains has published the first guide in a series on Air in JetBrains IDEs, a plugin that lets developers run several coding agents from one workspace and review their…

Aokigahara infostealer goes after AI assistant logins and developer credentials
Safety and ethicsOctober 23, 2026, 15:00

Aokigahara infostealer goes after AI assistant logins and developer credentials

A newly observed infostealer called Aokigahara specifically collects authentication files, session data and configuration files from AI applications and development…

Microsoft Foundry's browser automation tool for AI agents is now generally available
Products and toolsOctober 19, 2026, 12:32

Microsoft Foundry's browser automation tool for AI agents is now generally available

Microsoft has made the browser automation tool in Microsoft Foundry generally available. According to Microsoft, it gives AI agents a managed browser to navigate…

Chips and infrastructure
Chips and infrastructureOctober 14, 2026, 00:08

Microsoft details Maia 300: 96 accelerators per rack and a 12,288-chip superpod

Microsoft has published an architecture deep dive on Maia 300, the third generation of its Azure inference accelerator, built to maximize useful tokens per watt and per…

Microsoft to scale Azure Maia to multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027Top story
Chips and infrastructureOctober 12, 2026, 15:01

Microsoft to scale Azure Maia to multi-gigawatt deployments from 2027

Microsoft plans to scale its Azure Maia chip family to multi-gigawatt deployments starting in 2027, making Maia the primary inference system for its products and…

GitHub Copilot to split coding work between local and cloud models on Windows
Products and toolsOctober 8, 2026, 17:17

GitHub Copilot to split coding work between local and cloud models on Windows

GitHub Copilot will soon decide on its own whether a coding task runs on the device or in the cloud, according to Microsoft. The first local setup targets NVIDIA RTX…

Products and tools
Products and toolsOctober 7, 2026, 23:21

Microsoft brings local coding model and agent sandbox to Windows PCs

Microsoft says Windows PCs will now run agents and a coding model locally, with CEO Satya Nadella calling it "a new chapter for Windows". The company announced…

Microsoft rebuilds Copilot around Home, Code and a proactive Autopilot agent
Products and toolsSeptember 25, 2026, 14:10

Microsoft rebuilds Copilot around Home, Code and a proactive Autopilot agent

Microsoft has introduced a redesigned Copilot app built around three new capabilities: Home, Code and Autopilot. According to Microsoft, the update brings chat…