Microsoft Shows How to Build Your Own AI Agent from Scratch

Microsoft has launched a four-part developer series explaining how to build a CLI-style AI agent that can plan tasks, use tools, retain information, and ...

Microsoft Weekly: 5 years of Windows 11, more support for Windows 10, and expensive Xbox

Catch up with this week's Microsoft stories in our latest recap. Windows 11 is five years old, Windows 10 gets more support, ...

OpenAI announces GPT‑5.6 Sol, its next-generation flagship model beating Claude Mythos 5OpenAI announces GPT‑5.6 Sol, its next-generation flagship model beatin…

OpenAI has officially unveiled its highly anticipated GPT-5.6 model series, introducing three distinct tiers. However, the ...

AI prompts a memory-chip boom — and electronics inflation. Get used to it.

Google’s going to the movies, as it invested $75 million in the hot indie studio A24, along with a pledge to provide AI to ...
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Open-Source Coding Model Ornith-1.0 Writes Its Own Training Scaffold in Reinforcement Learning

DeepReinforce today released Ornith-1.0, a family of open-source coding models built around a mechanism most RL-trained agents avoid: the model itself writes the training harness that guides its own ...
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AI Has a Memory Problem

As AI data centers consume a growing share of global memory supply, shortages of advanced memory chips are emerging as a ...
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My 7-year-old GPU runs local AI perfectly, and I don't need my cloud subscriptions anymore

You don't always need an RTX 5090 to run useful models ...
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Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and ...
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I run three self-hosted apps on a $35 Raspberry Pi and they never skip a beat

Yadullah Abidi is a Computer Science graduate from the University of Delhi and holds a postgraduate degree in Journalism from the Asian College of Journalism, Chennai. With over a decade of experience ...
Microsoft

Guarding AI memory

Microsoft takes a defense-in-depth approach to protect AI memory spanning every layer of the stack: storage, retrieval, model ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I used Meta Llama 4, Qwen 3-Coder and Gemma 4 to develop a Python app, and only one model is worth keeping for developers

Putting some of the best local models to the development test ...
InfoWorld

10 tips for getting better R code from your AI coding agent

With the proper setup and guidance, you can have Claude Code, Codex, Posit Assistant, and other coding agents writing R code ...