Microsoft says OpenAI is driving 45% of the backlog for Azure cloud computing

OpenAI and Microsoft have a reconfigured relationship. The software giant revealed just how much OpenAI is driving its RPO.

OpenAI spills technical details about how its AI coding agent works

On Friday, OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a detailed technical breakdown of how the company’s Codex CLI coding agent ...

Clawdbot is a viral AI assistant: What it is, how to try it

As previously mentioned, Clawdbot is an open-source AI assistant that runs locally on your device. The tool was built by ...

Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft

Microsoft first started adopting Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 model inside its developer division in June last year, before ...
InfoQ

Microsoft Releases Azure Functions Support for Model Context Protocol Servers

Microsoft has launched its Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Azure Functions, ensuring secure, standardized workflows for AI ...
Ars Technica

How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google can now work on software projects for hours at a time, writing complete apps, running tests, and fixing bugs with human supervision. But these tools ...
Reuters

Zara turns to AI to generate fashion imagery using real-life models

LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Zara has become the latest fast-fashion retailer to use AI to help create new images of real models in different outfits, speeding up the production process as part of an ...
The New York Times

Lovable, a Start-Up That Makes Anyone a Coder, Raises $330 Million

The Swedish company is now valued at $6.6 billion, more than triple its $1.8 billion valuation set by investors in July. By Niko Gallogly From a young age, Anton Osika wanted to build things. That ...
Wired

Cursor Launches an AI Coding Tool For Designers

The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market. Cursor, the wildly popular AI coding startup, is launching a new feature ...
InfoWorld

PythoC: A new way to generate C code from Python

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...
Hackaday

Simple Tricks To Make Your Python Code Faster

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft: Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500,000 IP addresses

Microsoft said today that the Aisuru botnet hit its Azure network with a 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps) DDoS attack, launched from over 500,000 IP addresses. The attack used extremely high-rate UDP ...