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GitHub is reshaping how developers work alongside AI with its new Copilot desktop app, built specifically for what the company calls agent-native development. The idea is to let AI agents handle more of the actual coding while keeping engineers in control of the bigger picture — addressing real frustrations around context switching and reviewing machine-generated code.
Closer to your browser, Mozilla is experimenting with on-device AI inside Firefox to help users manage their ever-growing collection of open tabs. The feature suggests tab groups using a local model, meaning your browsing data stays on your machine rather than traveling to a server — a quiet but meaningful distinction in an era when privacy trade-offs are everywhere.
And in energy research, artificial intelligence may be accelerating one of tech's most stubborn bottlenecks: battery development. Scientists and engineers have historically spent years iterating on new chemistries, but AI-assisted modeling is compressing that timeline, with potential implications for everything from electric vehicles to grid storage.
Three very different problems, one common thread — AI finding its way into the work. Keep surfing. Tech Beat out.
