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Tools & Apps
6/13/2026 4 min

VS Code 1.124 makes agent sessions easier to queue, navigate, and govern

Visual Studio Code 1.124 sharpens the Agents window with background sessions, keyboard navigation, restored layouts, smarter Autopilot, browser history, and enterprise-managed Copilot plugin policies.

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Tools & Apps
6/13/2026 4 min

Hugging Face Serge puts AI code review inside GitHub pull requests

Hugging Face released Serge, an open-source GitHub-native AI code reviewer that follows repository-owned review rules and works with OpenAI-compatible models.

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AI & Automation
6/12/2026 3 min

OpenEnv gets broader open-source backing for agentic RL environments

Hugging Face says OpenEnv is moving under broader open-source coordination, positioning it as a protocol layer for agentic reinforcement learning environments.

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Tools & Apps
6/12/2026 3 min

GitHub Copilot SDK is now generally available for agent-powered apps

GitHub has moved Copilot SDK to general availability, giving teams a stable way to embed Copilot's agent runtime into apps, internal tools, and developer workflows.

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Knowledge & Learning
6/12/2026 3 min

Agents' Last Exam tests AI agents on real professional workflows

Agents' Last Exam is a new Berkeley-led benchmark for computer-use AI agents, with long-horizon professional tasks, verifiable outcomes, public tooling, and early results showing wide gaps on hard real-world work.

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Knowledge & Learning
6/12/2026 4 min

Hugging Face benchmark tests voice agents on code-switched customer speech

ServiceNow-AI published a Hugging Face benchmark and dataset for code-switched ASR, testing how voice-agent transcription handles Spanish-English, French-English, Canadian French-English, and German-English support scenarios.

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