Five free Marketplace extensions promise private, locally run coding assistance as developers look for alternatives to metered cloud AI.

Visual Studio Code 1.130 adds a dedicated agent host, assisted permissions, compact diffs, worktree isolation, and smarter Git links.

Mads Kristensen said subagents are coming to Copilot in Visual Studio, posting an image of a Copilot task flow showing a delegated subtask. VS Code already documents subagents as independent AI agents ...

Microsoft is taking advantage of its intellectual property rights with OpenAI, encouraging employees to use the company's top ...

Visual Studio Code 1.132 adds local multilingual dictation, side chats, browser element feedback, and experimental rendered ...

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STOCKHOLM, August 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinch today announced the availability of Agent Tools, a new suite of tools designed to help developers build, test and deploy applications powered by the ...

A new developer toolkit integrates AI coding assistants with communication APIs, enabling in-editor application development, ...

Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

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What finally pushed me to make the switch for my team was the lifetime license, now down to $32.97 (reg. $499.99) through July 19. The tool that changed things most for us was Live Share. Running real ...