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 Copilot breaks loose from its deep integration with VSCode, and now embraces the CLI Warriors in offering a terminal-based interface too. At last Copilot gets its own CLI version, bringing it up to par with competitors like Gemini CLI or Claude Code CLI.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18432-github-copilot-cli-and-spaces-in-preview.html

 Microsoft has merged Semantic Kernel and AutoGen to create the Agent Framework, stirring the AI Agent waters.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18425-exploring-the-microsoft-agent-framework.html

 Google brings the power of Chrome DevTools to AI coding assistants with its Chrome DevTools Model Context Protocol server, now in public preview. 

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18416-chrome-devtools-to-benefit-from-mcp.html

 Google's AI Studio can now generate Angular applications. Add the Web Codegen Scorer tool on top and you get a pretty solid Angular development platform.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/167-javascript/18414-google-ai-studio-does-angular.html

 IBM has launched Granite 4.0, the next generation of open-source, small but efficient, IBM language models, together with Granite-Docling, the next gen document format converter.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/18409-ibm-launches-granite-version-40-and-granite-docling-.html

 New options are now available for Jules, Google's coding Agent - a CLI and an API. We covered the release of Jules back in August, see Google Jules Coding Assistant Now Available. To cut a long story short, we found that Jules is:

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18404-jules-coding-agent-upgraded.html

 It's been some years since we first looked at Qodana, the solid SAST tool from JetBrains. Let's find out what's new in its latest release, Qodana 2025.2.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18398-qodana-revisited-.html

 ChartDB strikes back with a database agent that auto-magically draws database schemas for you.

Last February in Database Diagramming With ChartDB we looked at ChartDB as an open-source database diagrams editor that can be self-hosted or used in the Cloud which could:

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/90-tools/18391-chartdb-the-erd-agent.html

 PostgreSQL 18 was released on September 25, boosting a many great features. If you check out the official release statement you'll find that there's a lot to digest, so we'll focus on just a few key features.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/84-database/18383-postgresql-18-released-whats-new.html

 Google has released a small, specialized, but powerful model that can run on low resource devices.

EmbeddingGemma is a new open embedding model that delivers value for money for its size. Based on the Gemma 3 architecture, it is trained on 100+ languages and is small enough to run on less than 200MB of RAM with quantization.

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/18358-google-releases-embeddinggemma-state-of-the-art-on-device-embedding.html