Microsoft’s Agent Platform Play

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To understand really Microsoft sees its domiciled successful nan AI race, look astatine what was announced astatine nan company's GitHub Universe developer convention connected Tuesday successful San Francisco.

The arena 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 nan 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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