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Copilot usage metrics API adds agent app activity
Copilot usage metrics API adds agent app activity. Explain the verified change, who it affects, and the practical takeaway beyond the announcement.
Copilot in Visual Studio Adds Agent Preview and Built-In Skills
GitHub's July 2026 Visual Studio update adds an Agent Preview in Copilot Chat, built-in .NET and Azure skills, and org-level custom instructions…
NVIDIA Cosmos-H-Dreams Runs Surgical Sims in Real Time
NVIDIA has released Cosmos-H-Dreams, an open, action-conditioned world model that generates surgical robotics video fast enough to be driven interactively — around…
GitHub’s ‘Harness Is All You Need’ Workflow, Explained
GitHub has planted a flag in the middle of the AI-tooling arms race, and it points away from the hype. In an…
GitHub’s New Bug Bounty Rules: A Researcher’s Guide
GitHub's rebuilt bounty program starts assessing reports under new rules today. Here is the practical playbook: what the payouts are now, how…
PyTorch Conference NA Locks Its San Jose Program
The PyTorch Foundation has published the full session schedule for its October 20-21 San Jose conference, with early-bird pricing ending July 31…
Inkling: What Murati’s First Open-Weights Model Really Is
On July 15, Thinking Machines Lab announced Inkling, the first model the company has trained from scratch and shipped with full weights…
Why AI Agent Policies Fail Without Runtime Enforcement
Part two of Docker's AI governance series argues that written policy and system prompts cannot contain autonomous agents — only runtime boundaries…
Newton, Isaac Lab 3.0, and the New Robot Simulation Stack
Robotics has a data problem that language models never had. LLMs train on internet-scale text; a robot has to learn what happens…
Data for Agents: What Agentic AI Actually Needs
Data for Agents: What Agentic AI Actually Needs The agentic-AI conversation has spent the past year obsessing over models — bigger context…