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.

Microsoft's Agent Framework now ships a supported runtime. Build 2026 brought the Agent Harness, the GitHub Copilot and Claude Agent SDK connectors, and the orchestration patterns to stable release; ...

Dependency confusion is a supply chain issue that affects how package managers choose where to download a dependency from. If your build or developer tooling can see both a private package registry ...

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Spread the loveThe tech industry, as we know it, is undergoing a seismic shift. It’s not just evolving; it’s being ...

Microsoft has equipped its Agent Framework with a stable, “batteries-included” harness. This is intended to transform large language models into agents in both Python and .NET. Microsoft Agent ...

OpenAI unveiled its newest family of models on Thursday, introducing a set of heavyweight programs into an increasingly crowded field of AI offerings. GPT-5.6 comes in three variants: Sol (considered ...

At Cursor's inaugural Compile conference on June 16, the San Francisco AI coding company debuted three products simultaneously: Origin, a git hosting platform built for AI agents rather than human ...

VS Code can use LLM models other than GitHub Copilot’s built-in providers for AI-assisted development, including local and offline models, but with some limits. Microsoft has been pushing hard to make ...

The Forge is a Roblox tycoon RPG about running a forge. In The Forge, you’ll mine to earn minerals and then forge them into cool weapons through a few different minigames. Once you’ve made some ...