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Announced September 4 and gated on developer-class hardware: 64GB+ unified memory and 250+ GB/s bandwidth, enough to run 30B-parameter models without paying per token. It preinstalls languages, runtimes and source control, pins Terminal and VS Code, turns on file extensions, hidden files, full path in title bar and long-path support. The agent-relevant pieces are WSL containers and Microsoft Execution Containers with OS-enforced identity for agentic apps. Lands first on AMD's Ryzen AI Halo (Windows Developer Blog).
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MAI-Code-1-Flash, a 5B-parameter coding model, is in GitHub Copilot and VS Code, and Microsoft says it beats Claude Haiku 4.5 across core coding benchmarks, +16 points on SWE-Bench Pro at 51.2% versus 35.2%, using up to 60% fewer tokens. MAI-Thinking-1, a 35B-active MoE with a...
Microsoft and GitHub disabled the repos, many of them Azure and AI developer tools, after attackers injected malware that harvests credentials the moment a repo is opened in Claude Code, Gemini CLI, or VS Code. Miasma is built on the open-sourced Mini Shai-Hulud codebase from...
Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.110 with agent plugins (bundled skills + MCP servers + hooks), native browser interaction for UI validation, persistent session memory across workflows, /fork for parallel conversation branching, and a new Agent Debug panel showing system prompts, t...
Alongside the MAI models at Build 2026, Microsoft put MXC into preview, enterprise-grade sandboxed environments for running agents. Source: Microsoft Blog Read it next to the RCE story and Willison's WASM sandbox. Everyone's converging on the same conclusion at once: agents ne...
The release moves AI agents into a dedicated Agent Host process separate from the extension host, so sessions survive window closures and multiple windows can attach to one session. Microsoft is publishing the protocol openly, letting third-party harnesses including the Copilo...
Google released Antigravity IDE Extensions, putting its agentic coding platform into VS Code (macOS, Linux, Windows), JetBrains IDEs from 2026.2.1 (IntelliJ, PyCharm, WebStorm, GoLand, CLion, Rider), Zed, and Visual Studio 2026 in preview. One Antigravity account works everywh...
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