Microsoft’s agent platform play
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To understand how Microsoft sees its role in the AI race, look at what was announced at the company's GitHub Universe developer conference on Tuesday in San Francisco.
The event marked a turning point for one of Microsoft's most important but often under-analyzed assets. GitHub, which is used by more than 180 million developers, wants to be the central platform for AI coding agents. Its new Agent HQ interface lets outside coding assistants, including OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code, plu …