Amjad Masad announced that Replit has raised $400 million in a Series D, and also unveiled a powerful new agent.

An aardvark works in an office typing at a desktop PC while happy human workers mill about in the background. Credit: VentureBeat made with ChatGPT Positioned as a scalable defense tool for modern ...

OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor finds it emotionally challenging to step away from writing code, despite the company's focus on advanced AI coding agents. He acknowledges the shift in software engineering ...

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced three new AI agents it calls “frontier agents,” including one designed to learn how you like to work and then operate on its own for days. Each of these agents ...

What if you could delegate the most tedious, time-consuming parts of app development to a team of hyper-focused, tireless assistants? Enter Claude Hive and sub-agents—AI-powered tools that are not ...

We examine how AI is changing the future of work — and how, in many ways, that future is already here. AI agents are all the rage right now. Google announced its “agentic era” for Google Gemini back ...

The Copilot Studio extension lets developers use any VS Code-compatible AI assistant to develop AI agents, then sync with Copilot Studio for testing and iteration. Microsoft is offering a Microsoft ...

Visual Studio Code 1.108 adds experimental Agent Skills, allowing GitHub Copilot to load custom instructions, scripts, and resources for specialized tasks. Agent Skills are defined in a simple folder ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit Agent Builder can wire an agent to external tools via MCP, even for non-coding editorial workflows. Early friction points included circular UX flows, model availability mismatches ...