The January 2026 update has arrived.

Perhaps a little less focus on AI would help as well? Microsoft says "reliability is the priority" for AI in Visual Studio – ...

VS Code 1.100 adds support for instructions and prompt files for Copilot Chat and speeds up edits in agent mode and in Next Edit Suggestions. Visual Studio Code 1.100, the latest release of ...

In VS Code chat, AI agents can now ask follow-up questions and generate Mermaid diagrams, and Anthropic Claude models show ...

The January 2026 update to VS Code (v1.109) transforms the editor into a multi-agent orchestration hub, allowing developers ...

Microsoft outlines new AI reliability, agentic coding, and Copilot improvements coming to Visual Studio 2026, with a focus on ...

Copilot's 'Auto' model picker in VS Code and Visual Studio currently routes to whatever model is most available and policy-compliant--not the one best matched to your prompt--while Microsoft/GitHub ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances.

CodeRabbit has released a new integration that brings its AI-based code review system directly into Visual Studio Code, along with support for the Cursor and Windsurf IDEs. The extension allows ...

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 ...

If you want to run VS Code AI Mode to boost coding performance, this article will be handy for you. It explains how you can enable the agent mode in VS Code, set up an agent, and use the AI Mode to ...