Microsoft’s agent platform play

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To recognize however Microsoft sees its relation successful the AI race, look astatine what was announced astatine the company's GitHub Universe developer league connected Tuesday successful San Francisco.

The lawsuit marked a turning constituent for 1 of Microsoft's astir important but often under-analyzed assets. GitHub, which is utilized by much than 180 cardinal developers, wants to beryllium the cardinal level for AI coding agents. Its caller Agent HQ interface lets extracurricular coding assistants, including OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code, plu …

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