Visual Studio Magazine

Claude AI Gets Yet Another Boost in VS Code 1.128

The July 8, 2026, Visual Studio Code update expands agent workflows, chat attachments, browser-tab controls, OS-level shortcuts and enterprise telemetry management.
Visual Studio Magazine

TypeScript 7 Arrives to Rock VS Code with Go-Powered Speed

Microsoft says TypeScript 7, announced July 8, brings native Go performance to VS Code, Visual Studio and other editors.

Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code 1.128 with OS-level keyboard shortcuts0 0

Visual Studio Code 1.128 is out now. It's the latest weekly release and this time brings a handful of new features.
Windows Report

VS Code Adds Image Support, Multi-Chat Agents, and System-Wide Shortcuts

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.128 to the stable channel. The update focuses on richer Copilot chat workflows, image and PDF support in Chat, and new OS-level keyboard shortcuts. The ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio update rejiggers GitHub Copilot usage tracking

June 2026 update to Visual Studio tracks Copilot usage based on token consumption rather than by request, aligning with ...
techtimes

Open-Weight AI Enters GitHub Copilot: Kimi K2.7 Code Costs Less, Audits Differently

GitHub moved the AI coding landscape on Wednesday when it made Kimi K2.7 Code — a Beijing-built, open-weight model from Moonshot AI — generally available in the GitHub Copilot model picker, marking ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code improves tools for agents

VS Code 1.127 enhances agent session management, introduces per-site browser permissions, and makes browser tools for agents ...
VentureBeat

Kimi K2.7-Code cuts thinking tokens 30% — but practitioners say the benchmarks don't check out

Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.7-Code this week, an open-source update to its K2 coding model family, claiming leaner reasoning and double-digit performance gains. K2.7-Code is built on the same ...
Crypto Briefing

Kimi AI releases open-source K2.7 Code model with 1 trillion parameters on APIs and Hugging Face

Moonshot AI just dropped Kimi-K2.7-Code, an open-source coding model that wants to make AI-assisted programming less wasteful and more capable. The Beijing-based company claims the model cuts ...
GitHub

for Visual Generation and Understanding

This repo implements UniTok, a unified visual tokenizer well-suited for both generation and understanding tasks. It is compatiable with autoregressive generative models (e.g. LlamaGen), multimodal ...
Forbes

AI Coding Agents Write 180% More Code But Ship Only 30% More Software

TOKYO, JAPAN - FEBRUARY 3: Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks during a talk session with SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son at an event titled "Transforming Business through AI" in Tokyo, Japan, on February ...
Science Daily

MIT’s new spacecraft engine could send tiny satellites to Mars

MIT researchers have shown that one fuel can power both chemical and electric spacecraft thrusters, potentially transforming what small satellites can do. The approach combines quick bursts of speed ...