OpenAI has introduced Codex Pets, optional animated companions for its Codex desktop app that sit on your screen and track what the coding agent is doing in real time.

Codex’s AI ‘pets’ act as floating overlays on your screen, giving you progress updates while you work on other tasks in ...

Just two days after GitHub announced usage-based billing for Copilot, Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.118 -- under its new weekly release cadence -- with significant token efficiency improvements designed ...

The core promise of new AI platforms is that you can describe your task to the AI assistant, let it plan the task and use the relevant tools for you, and keep your preferences in mind for future tasks ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

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Meta, the company behind some of the world’s most popular social media platforms, just scooped up a new site – for bots. Meta has acquired Moltbook, the social media network where AI agents interact ...

Microsoft and Apple have long felt like the Montagues and the Capulets, but lately, it feels like that feud is gradually mellowing into a cordial, mutual understanding — without needing two young ...

A note to corporations everywhere: Asking politely for the internet to stop making fun of you often has the opposite effect. Microsoft may have just learned that lesson the hard way, after it ...

ANN ARBOR, MI - Students receiving instructions from a bot instructor at the University of Michigan? It’s not as improbable as you might think, according to one professor at UM. The university does ...

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three ...