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Microsoft Build 2026 Kicks Off Today: Live Updates on Copilot AI and Dev Tools

Microsoft Build 2026 Kicks Off Today: Live Updates on Copilot AI and Dev Tools

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Project Solara, a new AI cloud platform, was announced at Microsoft Build. Corinne Reichert/CNET Nadella announced Project Solara, billed as a “new chip-to-cloud platform” for AI agent devices. Steven Bathiche, who leads Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group, demonstrated onstage a new portable device built with Qualcomm silicon. “It’s a turnkey solution for building unique agent-first devices,” Bathiche said, as he showed off an early prototype.  Steven Bathiche demonstrated a new AI agent access badge built using Qualcomm silicon. Corinne Reichert/CNET “The Access Badge, built using Qualcomm silicon for wearables — this digital badge is a lightweight form factor designed for agent interactions on the go,” he said. You can unlock the badge with your fingerprint and use verbal commands to control the AI agent.  During the demo, he asked the badge to take photos for a social media post, using it to scan the crowd at the Build keynote. He asked Copilot to find some good shots from the audience scan, clean them up and send them to him and his team for review. Microsoft is …

Perplexity launches Bumblebee: How its new read-only dev scanner differs from Chainguard

Perplexity launches Bumblebee: How its new read-only dev scanner differs from Chainguard

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dem10/ iStock / Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Perplexity Bumblebee is an open-source developer security program. Bumblebee doesn’t require AI or a subscription. The program aims to spot problems on programmers’ laptops.  If you’re a programmer, you’re painfully aware that there’s been a flood of successful malicious attacks on your software supply chain. These attacks include the Axios npm package compromise, the PyPI LiteLLM AI attack, and the CanisterSprawl npm assault.  What’s a programmer to do when they can’t even trust the very building blocks of their program? Well, there are several approaches, and the latest comes from Perplexity.  According to the AI company, Bumblebee is a “read‑only scanner we use to check developer machines for risky packages, extensions, and AI tool configs during supply‑chain incidents.” The company said in its announcement that the program is one of “the internal tools we use to protect the developer systems behind Perplexity, Comet, and Computer.” Also: How I got my business emails through spam filters with …

Heritage Auctions Creates New Position Combining Legal and Biz Dev

Heritage Auctions Creates New Position Combining Legal and Biz Dev

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Samantha Anderson has joined Heritage Auctions as Chief Legal Officer and EVP of Business Development and Special Projects. She comes from Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, where she was an attorney in the Art and Museum Law group for three years. It’s the latest in a series of strategic moves by the Dallas-based auction house as it positions itself for further expansion. As Chief Legal Officer, Anderson will be handling both internal legal matters in the day-to-day operations of the business, as well as overseeing transactional matters with clients.  Related Articles “It’s unusual to have an in-house counsel who has worked in the market,” she told ARTnews. It also might be the first time that an auction house has formalized the overlap between business development acumen and legal expertise in a job title. “It’s a role that acknowledges that those buckets get mixed,” said Anderson. Anderson joins at a time of massive growth for the auction house. Five years ago, Heritage achieved $1.4 billion in sales and captured 7.9 percent share of the market …

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

Anthropic has acquired the dev tools startup used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare

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Anthropic announced Monday it has acquired Stainless, a startup founded by former Stripe engineer Alex Rattray whose software is widely used by rival AI labs, including OpenAI and Google. Anthropic didn’t disclose terms of the deal. However, The Information reported last week that the company was in talks to acquire Stainless, which is backed by Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, for more than $300 million. The acquisition will take a key infrastructure supplier out of the hands of Anthropic’s competitors. The company told TechCrunch it will wind down all hosted Stainless products, including its SDK generator. An Anthropic spokesperson said Stainless customers will still own the SDKs they’ve generated to date and have full rights to modify and extend them however they wish. The New York-based startup, founded in 2022, rose to prominence in the emerging AI industry for automating the creation and maintenance of software development kits, or SDKs — the libraries developers use to interact with APIs. Rattray developed software that could take API specifications and turn them into production-ready SDKs across multiple …

One tool call to rule them all? New open source Python tool RunPod Flash eliminates containers for faster AI dev

One tool call to rule them all? New open source Python tool RunPod Flash eliminates containers for faster AI dev

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Runpod, the high-performance cloud computing and GPU platform designed specifically for AI development, today launched a new open source, MIT licensed, enterprise-friendly Python programming tool called Runpod Flash — and it is poised to make creation, iteration and deployment of AI systems inside and outside of foundation model labs much faster. The tool aims to eliminate some of the biggest barriers and hurdles to training and using AI models today, namely, doing away with Docker packages and containerization when developing for serverless GPU infrastructure, which the company believes will speed up development and deployment of new AI models, applications and agentic workflows. Additionally, the platform is built to serve as a critical substrate for AI agents and coding assistants—such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Cline—enabling them to orchestrate and deploy remote hardware autonomously with minimal friction. Developers can utilize Flash to accomplish a diverse set of high-performance computing tasks, including cutting-edge deep learning research, model training, and fine-tuning. “We make it as easy as possible to be able to bring together the cosmos of different …

The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What every dev needs to know

The new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What every dev needs to know

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Emilija Manevska/Moment/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel.  AI or no AI, it’s people, not LLMs, who are responsible for Linux’s code.  If you try to mess around with Linux code using AI, bad things will happen. After months of heated debate, Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel maintainers have officially codified the project’s first formal policy on AI-assisted code contributions. This new policy reflects Torvald’s pragmatic approach, balancing the embrace of modern AI development tools with the kernel’s rigorous quality standards. The new guidelines establish three core principles: AI agents cannot add Signed-off-by tags: Only humans can legally certify the Linux kernel’s Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO). This is the legal mechanism that ensures code licensing compliance. In other words, even if you turned in a patch that was written entirely by AI, you, and not the AI or its creator, are solely responsible for the contribution.  Mandatory Assisted-by attribution: …

Xbox Project Helix at GDC 2026: Release Window, Dev Kits, and Key Features

Xbox Project Helix at GDC 2026: Release Window, Dev Kits, and Key Features

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Xbox has officially unveiled its next-generation console, Project Helix, at the 2026 Game Developers Conference (GDC). Built in collaboration with AMD, the system features the custom “Magnus” chip, which integrates neural rendering and DirectX13 to enhance graphics and performance. According to colteastwood, the console emphasizes unifying Xbox and PC gaming ecosystems, with specific advancements like crossplay functionality and expanded support for developers aiming to streamline game creation across platforms. In this update, you’ll learn how Project Helix incorporates AI-driven enhancements to improve backward compatibility and optimize older titles. You’ll also see how features like “Xbox mode” in Windows 11 aim to deliver a console-like experience for PC users, alongside updates to Quick Resume that enhance platform integration. This breakdown provides a closer look at the technical and functional aspects shaping the next phase of Xbox gaming. Xbox Project Helix Overview GDC 2026 TL;DR Key Takeaways : Xbox unveiled its next-generation console, Project Helix, at GDC 2026, with a release planned for late 2027 or early 2028. Powered by the custom AMD “Magnus” chip, the console …

‘They Killed Our People’ | Atul Dev

‘They Killed Our People’ | Atul Dev

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In the spring of 2008, at a small desk piled with papers and notebooks, Lisa Hicks-Gilbert sat spellbound in front of a laptop. After a lifetime of zigzagging around Arkansas, raising two children on her own while cleaning houses and working in restaurant kitchens, she had settled into the first job that left her time for herself, as a home nurse for an old man in a wealthy white family in Little Rock. She had decided to go back to school, secured a grant from the Single Parent Scholarship Fund, and enrolled in a paralegal training course. That day, doing research online for her class in legal history, she discovered a book titled Blood in Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919. The summary on the back cover described a white mob that, with the help of federal troops, killed hundreds of black sharecroppers in the town of Elaine, on the eastern edge of Arkansas. Hicks-Gilbert grew up in and around Elaine. “I was like, ‘What is this?’” she told me. At first she …

Grok 4.1 Fast's compelling dev access and Agent Tools API overshadowed by Musk glazing

Grok 4.1 Fast's compelling dev access and Agent Tools API overshadowed by Musk glazing

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Elon Musk's frontier generative AI startup xAI formally opened developer access to its Grok 4.1 Fast models last night and introduced a new Agent Tools API—but the technical milestones were immediately subverted by a wave of public ridicule about Grok's responses on the social network X over the last few days praising its creator Musk as more athletic than championship-winning American football players and legendary boxer Mike Tyson, despite having displayed no public prowess at either sport. They emerge as yet another black eye for xAI's Grok following the "MechaHitler" scandal in the summer of 2025, in which an earlier version of Grok adopted a verbally antisemitic persona inspired by the late German dictator and Holocaust architect, and an incident in May 2025 which it replied to X users to discuss unfounded claims of "white genocide" in Musk's home country of South Africa to unrelated subject matter. This time, X users shared dozens of examples of Grok alleging Musk was stronger or more performant than elite athletes and a greater thinker than luminaries such as …