Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights

Microsoft's SkillOpt brings deep-learning discipline to AI agent skills, replacing manual prompt tweaking with mathematically ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Developing Agentic Systems in .NET: From Concept to Code

ZioNet founder Alon Fliess previews his Visual Studio Live! San Diego session on building true agentic systems in .NET -- covering the cognitive loop, MCP tool integration, multi-agent orchestration ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft open sources AI evaluation framework for enterprise agents

A new tool enters a growing AI testing market as analysts say most organizations still do not evaluate agent behavior before ...

Cohere open-sources a coding agent that runs on a single H100

Cohere's North Mini Code ranks 8th of 127 open-weight models on output speed — but generates 3x the output tokens of ...
IEEE

A Survey on Autonomy-Induced Security Risks in Large Model-Based Agents

Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have catalyzed the rise of autonomous AI agents capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting in dynamic, open-ended environments. These ...
IEEE

Security and Quality in LLM-Generated Code: a Multi-Language, Multi-Model Analysis

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven code generation tools are increasingly used throughout the software development lifecycle to accelerate coding tasks. However, the security of ...
TechNode

Alibaba introduces Qwen3.7-Max as next-gen AI agent model

Alibaba’s Qwen on Wednesday unveiled Qwen3.7-Max, its new flagship AI model designed for the agent era, with API access set to roll out soon. The company said Qwen3.7-Max is its most advanced and ...
Microsoft

Fara1.5 – A family of frontier computer use agent models

By: Ahmed Awadallah, Sahil Gupta, Yash Lara, Yadong Lu, Hussein Mozannar, Akshay Nambi, Zach Nussbaum, Yash Pandya, Aravind Rajeswaran, Corby Rosset, Alexey Taymanov, Luiz do Valle, Vibhav Vineet, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code 1.121 Adds Remote Agents, Boosts Claude Code Functionality Again

VS Code 1.121 was released May 20, 2026, featuring yet another update to Claude Code, becoming more and more a first-class citizen in the VS Code ecosystem. Remote agents can run over SSH or dev ...
CNET

Google's New Gemini AI Model and Tools Are All About Agents Now

Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini Spark and a reimagined Antigravity are designed to use AI to actually do things. Jon covers artificial intelligence. He previously led CNET's home energy and utilities ...