JetBrains and DeepLearning.AI released a free course, 'AI Coding Workflows: Hybrid to Local,' teaching developers how to use hybrid and local AI models in PyCharm, covering techniques like subagents, …
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains added persistent memory across sessions and repositories, plus Ollama as a local model provider, on August 11. The update brings JetBrains users features already available…
JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA now supports AI agents through the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), a standardized contract between the IDE and coding agents, with bundled agents including Codex, Claude Agent, a…
JetBrains released PyCharm 2026.2.1, adding AI agent support for Jupyter notebooks with live kernel execution and an environment coordinator that directs agents to the project's configured Python inte…
JetBrains' PyCharm introduced the Agent Environment Coordinator skill, which provides AI agents with the correct Python interpreter information, boosting task success rates from 68% to 98% on average …
JetBrains introduced a new Jupyter skill in PyCharm that lets AI agents operate a live Jupyter kernel, preserving state across cells and avoiding notebook corruption. In tests with Claude Opus 5 on tw…
OpenAI acquired Astral, the company behind the popular Python package manager uv, on March 19, 2026. The entire Astral team, including founder Charlie Marsh, joined OpenAI's Codex org. uv, which is 10…
JetBrains' IntelliJ IDEA 2024.2 introduces five key AI features, including AI completion that predicts next edits, in-editor code generation via Ctrl+\, AI Actions for explain/test/documentation, and …
JetBrains has introduced Agent Skills in IntelliJ IDEA, enabling AI agents to gain additional capabilities and knowledge for agentic development. The Skills Manager allows developers to install skills…
A developer team improved the coding performance of 15 large language models in one afternoon by changing only the edit tool in their harness, not the models themselves. The team found that edit forma…
GitHub introduced two new enterprise managed-settings keys, `allowedMcpServers` and `deniedMcpServers`, on August 6 to let organizations centrally control which MCP servers GitHub Copilot can run. The…
GitHub has released an update to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains that adds persistent Copilot memory across chat sessions, support for Ollama as a bring-your-own-key (BYOK) provider, and expanded enterpr…
JetBrains WebStorm now supports the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), an open standard that lets developers use any ACP-compliant AI agent, including those from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, without a Jet…
JetBrains has centralized its AI usage through a shared access and accounting layer called Central CLI after development-related AI spending increased roughly tenfold in six months. The company report…
JetBrains has released Chrome DevTools Connect for WebStorm 2026.2.1, a bundled Chrome DevTools CLI skill that lets AI agents interact with Chrome directly from the IDE, eliminating the need to switch…
Microsoft has announced the general availability of TypeScript 7, the first version written in native code, which is about ten times faster than TypeScript 6.0, the last JavaScript-based version. JetB…
According to the JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem survey of nearly 25,000 developers, 85% of developers regularly use AI tools for coding by late 2025, yet a randomized controlled trial by METR …
IntelliJ IDEA 2026.2 introduces upgraded logpoints that use direct code instrumentation instead of debugger-side evaluation, enabling reliable use by AI agents and providing a new UI with console navi…
JetBrains released Figma Connect for WebStorm 2026.2.1, integrating Figma design files directly into the IDE to streamline design-to-code workflows. The tool lets developers select layers, attach desi…
JetBrains announced that with the 2026.2 release, its ReSharper extension now includes a .NET debugger, making it the most complete .NET tooling option for Cursor, Google Antigravity IDE, Devin Deskto…