When you're trying to get the best performance out of Python, most developers immediately jump to complex algorithmic fixes, using C extensions, or obsessively running profiling tools. However, one of ...

First version of a web extension allowing you to view IDL code and notebooks directly in the browser — lightweight for now, but a step toward full desktop/browser parity See the changelog for full ...

Valued at $1.6 billion, a tiny start-up called Axiom is building A.I. systems that can check for mistakes. Axiom Math’s founder and chief executive, Carina Hong, right, and the chief technology ...

Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...

Google also enables auto-approval of AI agents while their documentation warns against it Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is moving to a weekly release cycle, as well as joining Google in ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...