Microsoft’s open-source SkillOpt automatically upgrades AI agent skills without touching model weights

Microsoft's SkillOpt brings deep-learning discipline to AI agent skills, replacing manual prompt tweaking with mathematically ...

Cohere open-sources a coding agent that runs on a single H100

Cohere's North Mini Code ranks 8th of 127 open-weight models on output speed — but generates 3x the output tokens of ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft open sources AI evaluation framework for enterprise agents

A new tool enters a growing AI testing market as analysts say most organizations still do not evaluate agent behavior before ...

XBOW tests Anthropic's Mythos Preview for offensive security

Anthropic's Mythos Preview was highly effective at finding vulnerability candidates, especially when analyzing source code.
Visual Studio Magazine

Developing Agentic Systems in .NET: From Concept to Code

ZioNet founder Alon Fliess previews his Visual Studio Live! San Diego session on building true agentic systems in .NET -- covering the cognitive loop, MCP tool integration, multi-agent orchestration ...
winbuzzer.com

Perplexity Lets AI Agents Write Their Own Search Code

Perplexity introduced Search as Code as a reference architecture for AI-written Python search workflows, following its 2025 real-time Search API. The new approach shifts the pitch from repeatedly ...