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 July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.

Separate Oracle guides for Fusion AI Agent Studio and APEX development illustrate how VS Code has evolved from a popular editor into a foundation for an expanding range of developer experiences.

Meta says the page management platform shows you ‘exactly what to do next to succeed on Facebook.’ Meta says the page management platform shows you ‘exactly what to do next to succeed on Facebook.’ ...

Facebook announced on Wednesday that it’s reimagining its Creator Studio tool as a stand-alone AI companion app designed to help creators grow their audiences on the social network. By giving creators ...

A study on visual language models explores how shared semantic frameworks improve image–text understanding across multimodal tasks. By combining feature extraction, joint embedding, and advanced ...

Windows 11 is full of web apps that make your PC slower and less enjoyable to use, so I'm excited about the prospect of a team dedicated to "100% native" apps. I've been writing about technology for ...

Allen Institute for AI, a prominent Seattle-based nonprofit research organization working on advancing artificial intelligence models and systems, today launched a new open-source AI agent that can ...

Engineers building browser agents today face a choice between closed APIs they cannot inspect and open-weight frameworks with no trained model underneath them. Ai2 is now offering a third option. The ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.112, shortly after announcing a faster release cadence for the popular editor. Despite the quicker update cycle, this release introduces several notable ...

Modern IDEs are evolving into AI-powered hubs for coding, content, and productivity. Get your scorecards out, we have yet another update in the ever expanding world of code editors. The barrier to ...

Viewers interact with Britt Moseley’s “Leftover Landscape” installation as part of the 2025 MFA Thesis Show Acceleration Without Arrival. The MFA in Studio Art at UT Austin is a fully funded two-year ...