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AI powerhouse NVIDIA flexed its muscle at its GTC 2025 conference this week where several partnerships with Microsoft were announced, mostly concerning Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry offering.
03/21/2025
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Microsoft's VS Code dev team rides the vibe.
03/20/2025
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According to the release notes, however, most dev-team attention was devoted to small fixes, features and functionality, as was the case in Preview 1, which shipped a few weeks ago.
03/19/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of neural network quantile regression. The goal of a quantile regression problem is to predict a single numeric value with an assurance such as, "The predicted y value is 0.6789 and there's roughly a 90% chance the prediction will be greater than or equal to the true y value."
03/17/2025
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Microsoft is expanding functionality for agentic AI into its Azure AI Foundry platform, furthering one of the hottest areas of development right now where AI controls computers just like humans.
03/13/2025
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Things are happening quickly in the Microsoft-centric AI dev space, with the company previewing new AI features in Visual Studio 2022 ranging from a new .NET AI template to GPT-4o Copilot Code Completion.
03/12/2025
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Continuing the journey from "AI pair programmer" to "autonomous peer programmer" to, eventually, just "AI programmer," no human coding needed, just supervision.
03/06/2025
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With everyone scrambling to keep abreast of the rapidly advancing GenAI space, where some new tool or tech seems to be announced every week, Azure AI Foundry has emerged as a crucial end-to-end platform in the Microsoft-centric developer space.
03/06/2025
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Some developers complained that advanced AI models come sooner to VS Code than Visual Studio, but the new Claude Sonnet 3.7 model is now available in IDE with a paid GitHub Copilot account and a simple settings tweak in GitHub.
03/05/2025
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With agentic AI now firmly established as a key component of modern software development, Microsoft graduated its Semantic Kernel Agent Framework to Release Candidate 1 status.
03/04/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demo of Poisson regression, where the goal is to predict a count of things arriving, such as the number of telephone calls received in a 10-minute interval at a call center. When your source data is close to mathematically Poisson distributed, Poisson regression is simple and effective.
03/03/2025
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New Vision support with GitHub Copilot in the latest Visual Studio Code Insiders build takes a user-supplied mockup image and creates a web page from it in seconds, handling all the HTML and CSS.
02/20/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the naive Bayes regression technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. Compared to other machine learning regression techniques, naive Bayes regression is usually less accurate, but is simple, easy to implement and customize, works on both large and small datasets, is highly interpretable, and doesn't require tuning any hyperparameters.
02/20/2025
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The 4o upgrade includes additional training on more than 275,000 high-quality public repositories in over 30 popular programming languages, said Microsoft-owned GitHub, which created the original "AI pair programmer" years ago.
02/19/2025
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Just after expanding the reach of its Copilot AI coding assistant to the open-source Eclipse IDE, Microsoft showcased how it's going even further, providing details about a preview version for the Xcode IDE from archrival Apple.
02/19/2025
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Catering to Java jockeys, Microsoft is yet again expanding the sprawling reach of its Copilot-branded AI assistants, previewing a coding tool for the open-source Eclipse IDE.
02/13/2025
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New GitHub Copilot AI features range from AI-enhanced feature search to edits across files, new shortcuts and expansion of slash commands, along with much more.
02/12/2025
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At the upcoming Visual Studio Live! conference in Las Vegas, Marcel de Vries, Global MD & CTO at Xebia, will present a session on how developers can leverage Semantic Kernel to build AI-enhanced applications with C#.
02/11/2025
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Microsoft is previewing new AI tech that predicts next edits, allowing devs to just Tab to accept them and keep on going.
02/10/2025
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GitHub announced a raft of improvements to its Copilot AI in the Visual Studio Code editor, including a new "agent mode" in preview that lets developers use the AI technology to write code faster and more accurately.
02/06/2025
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Who better to lead a full-day deep dive into this tech than two experts from GitHub, which introduced the original "AI pair programmer" and spawned the ubiquitous Copilot moniker?
02/05/2025
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Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the random neighborhoods regression technique, where the goal is to predict a single numeric value. Compared to other ML regression techniques, advantages are that it can handle both large and small datasets, and the results are highly interpretable.
02/03/2025
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While some organizations are restricting employee usage of the new open source DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company due to data collection concerns, Microsoft has taken a different approach.
01/30/2025
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"AI Toolkit extension for VS code now supports external local models via Ollama. It has also added support remote hosted models using API keys for OpenAI, Google and Anthropic."
01/27/2025
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Microsoft's Visual Studio dev team has been working on the next release of its flagship IDE, Visual Studio 2022 v17.13, with an emphasis on improving the GitHub Copilot AI-powered coding assistant.
01/27/2025