Microsoft has introduced C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code. The C++ code understanding improvements were announced on February 19. The updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code bring the same C++ intelligence as the Microsoft’s C/C++ and CMake Tools extensions directly into agent mode by surfacing

The tech industry always values innovation, but Microsoft’s latest adoption of new technology may come at an unusually high cost. The company’s aggressive moves to embed its AI assistant, Copilot, into Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 have polarized users and drawn regulatory scrutiny. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is looking at whether Microsoft’s tactics in

With every passing year, data continues to grow more important and more central to practically every aspect of corporate operations. As the AI race continues full-steam ahead, it will be mission-critical for CIOs and other technical business decision-makers to get things right when it comes to their data infrastructure. Without the right plumbing, even the

Standardizing on a single cloud infrastructure is much easier than pursuing a multicloud strategy. In a single-cloud environment, IT leaders can optimize skill sets, centralize data more easily, secure infrastructure with fewer tools, and gain many other operational benefits. Yet 89% of enterprises report they are pivoting to multicloud adoption. Reasons for choosing to operate

Snowflake has extended support for Cortex Code CLI, its terminal-based AI coding agent, to dbt and Apache Airflow to help data practitioners streamline engineering workflows. “With this extended support, developers unlock secure, context-aware AI assistance within their preferred data engineering systems — empowering teams to work with data wherever it lives, and build, manage, and

High inference latency and spiraling GPU costs have emerged as the primary bottlenecks for IT leaders deploying agentic AI systems. These workflows often generate thousands of tokens per query, creating a performance gap that current hardware struggles to bridge. Now, researchers from the University of Maryland, Lawrence Livermore National Labs, Columbia University, and TogetherAI say

With its new Frontier platform, announced earlier this month, OpenAI is looking to position itself as the best option for managing enterprise AI agents. But to succeed, the company that delivered the popular ChatGPT in 2022 will need to show it can manage the complexity of large-scale agent deployments — and do so better than 

As it bids to push further into the enterprise, OpenAI announced Monday that it has partnered with several large consulting firms. Frontier Alliances, as the partner initiative is called, will involve work with Accenture, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), Capgemini, and McKinsey & Co. The multi-year partnerships will “help customers define strategy, integrate systems, redesign workflows,

When it comes to hardware and services revenues, storage is Apple’s secret spell. Not only has iCloud storage become Apple’s most frequently paid-for service, but people are more often purchasing additional storage when acquiring new Apple hardware. This is good business for the company and all it had to do to build that business was

Nvidia has been talking about sovereign AI for years, but is finding that India’s cultural and economic diversity calls for a different approach. Unlike in the US, truckloads of GPUs won’t drive the chipmaker’s expansion in India. Instead, the company plans to focus on software first, and deal with computing power  later. It’s betting on