Shiny for Python 1.0 launched this week with built-in chatbot functionality. The Chat() component is aimed at making it “easy to implement generative AI chatbots, powered by any large language model ...

Microsoft took an extra week to ship the new Visual Studio Code 1.101 (May 2025) release, which is today available with a host of improvements around advanced AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Official support for free-threaded Python, and free-threaded improvements Python’s free-threaded build promises true parallelism for threads in Python programs by removing the Global Interpreter Lock ...