Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.

Microsoft's fifth July update expands agent monitoring, adds offline speech transcription and changes Python environment management.

Visual Studio Code 1.114 streamlines AI chat Latest weekly update supports previewing videos in the image carousel, adds a Copy Final Response command to the chat context menu, and simplifies Copilot ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Pro 2026 is a full coding environment for building, testing, debugging and collaborating on software projects. Writing code gets a lot harder when your tools are scattered ...

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Excellent character consistency and realism Can edit existing images as well as generate images Can create legible text in AI images ...