AI system devises first optimizations to sorting code in over a decade Writing efficient code was turned into a game, and the AI played to win.

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research details the 'Hello World' of image classification: a convolutional neural network (CNN) applied to the MNIST digits dataset.

OpenAI highlights ChatGPT's dialogue capability in examples for debugging code where it can ask for clarifications, and receive hints from a person to arrive at a better answer.

The first preview of Visual Studio 2022 17.6 boosts GitHub integration and also sees AI-assisted IntelliCode instantly offering up real-world API code examples -- no more context switching required.