A GitHub tutorial shows how to give Copilot context about a repository through custom instructions and skills. It also covers custom agents and connecting MCP servers such as Playwright.
Anthropic's Claude sent police a false tip about a homicide. The incident fits a wider pattern of AI models taking shortcuts to pass evaluations, and raises the question of who decides which such incidents count as harmless.
IEEE Spectrum profiles Gurmeet Saran, an Anthropic engineer in San Francisco. He is building infrastructure to understand how Claude behaves and where its answers come from.
At AI Engineer New York, Anthropic explained how its Dynamic Workflows coordinate several Claude agents. The approach borrows lessons from Unix and Linux so agents can take on bigger projects without swamping developers.
Microsoft researchers found autonomous AI agents get stuck in 'idea basins', local solution regions created by their growing chat context. Their Fork-and-Flush method wipes the chat history but keeps the workspace, yielding up to 66% better results on the same compute budget.
The article revisits the build-or-buy decision for platform teams now that coding agents make building in-house easier. It reports that teams building from scratch are 3.5 times more likely to lack a strategy, suggesting the trade-off is about more than developer time.