Microsoft's Mads Kristensen said subagents are 'coming soon' to Copilot in Visual Studio, while VS Code already documents subagent support across context isolation, custom agents, parallel execution ...

Visual Studio Code 1.119 adds browser-aware AI agents, token optimization, OpenTelemetry tracing, and Markdown usability ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit Agent Builder can wire an agent to external tools via MCP, even for non-coding editorial workflows. Early friction points included circular UX flows, model availability mismatches ...

Microsoft has rolled back a Visual Studio Code change that automatically attributed GitHub commits to Copilot, even when AI was not used. The reversal in version 1.119 follows strong developer ...

VS Code 1.118 adds remote Copilot control, enterprise AI restrictions, and smarter caching while improving developer ...

The first preview of Visual Studio 2026, with deeper GitHub Copilot AI integration, is available through Microsoft’s new Insiders channel. Microsoft has released its first preview of the Visual Studio ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...