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The July 14 update brings expert-authored agent skills into the mainstream IDE to customize agentic workflows without hand-rolling prompts. (Microsoft Learn) The skills-as-files abstraction is officially out of the CLI and into the editor. This is the AIE World's Fair thesis showing up as a shipped feature.
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Released July 22, it brings agentic editing into Microsoft's IDE alongside .NET debugging support for VS Code (JetBrains Blog). Read this as a distribution play, not a feature release. JetBrains is embedding agents where .NET developers already are rather than asking them to s...
Microsoft's update ships a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat built on the SDK powering Copilot CLI, explicitly so behavior stays consistent across CLI, the GitHub app, VS Code and Visual Studio (Visual Studio Blog). It ships curated .NET and Azure skills you enable selective...
FY26 Q4 results, reported July 29: roughly 40 million agents registered across tens of thousands of companies just two months after Agent 365 launched, Microsoft 365 Copilot past 30 million paid seats with net additions more than doubling sequentially, Azure crossing $100 bill...
On Latent Space July 28, OpenAI core product engineering lead Akshay Nathan said Codex and ChatGPT Work combined reached 10 million users within two weeks of the July 9 launch, with monthly actives up more than 10x since January 2026. The number that should reframe your produc...
Two thirds. Not two thirds of a contrived jailbreak set. Two thirds of realistic malicious issue requests, against the exact three tools most of the people reading this run daily. Ankur Singh, Jinqiu Yang, and Tse-Hsun Chen built IssueTrojanBench across four attack categories...
Microsoft opened 650,000 Dynamics MCP actions July 23. JAMS Software shipped JAX plus a JAMS MCP connector for enterprise job scheduling at no additional cost as part of JAMS Web on July 24. Oracle released an AI-native builder for Fusion Agentic Applications available at no a...
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