Microsoft Corp. says a regression in Outlook Classic for Windows builds 20026.20182 and later can remove Copilot Chat and other Copilot entry points for users with either Copilot Chat Basic or paid Mi…
GitHub has expanded Copilot Chat on github.com with new conversation controls, including the ability to minimize the chat window and resume conversations, plus token spend indicators. These features a…
A developer released Pleasantries, an open-source pre-hook script that blocks pleasantry-only prompts like "hi" and "thank you" before they reach AI coding CLIs, saving tokens and preventing wasted mo…
Microsoft has made a Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention control available in preview that can prevent Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat from using email received from external domains, with g…
AI-assisted debugging tools like ChatGPT and Copilot Chat offer real speed gains for common, well-documented bugs by pattern matching, but they can also introduce new risks when they confidently sugge…
Microsoft integrated Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 into Microsoft 365 Copilot on July 25, making it available in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Copilot Chat, Cowork, and Studio alongside OpenAI's GPT-5.6. The i…
Vinv, an open-source tool released under Apache License 2.0, records runtime traces of Python backends and independently verifies coding agents' fixes by replaying starts, live ports, and acceptance t…
Microsoft integrated OpenAI's GPT-5.6 as the default model for its 365 Copilot suite on July 9, 2024, enhancing complex multi-step tasks across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The deployment raises trans…
A developer created a prompt for AI workflow discovery and opportunity assessment, designed to analyze workplace data from tools like Microsoft 365 Copilot and WorkIQ. The prompt builds a profile of w…
Microsoft 365 Copilot, launched in November 2023, has evolved from a simple chatbot into a suite of autonomous agents integrated into Office apps, reaching 20 million paid users by April 2026. However…
VS Code Copilot Chat uses a compaction mechanism to summarize older conversation history when the agent session exceeds the LLM's context window, triggered automatically or via the /compact command. T…
GitHub has made auto model selection generally available in Copilot Chat on github.com and the GitHub mobile app for all Copilot plans. The feature dynamically routes requests to models like Claude So…
A new open-source tool called Undoable helps coding assistants make software changes reversible by planning, reviewing, splitting, testing, and rolling back modifications. The tool integrates with Cla…
A developer has created an AI-powered workflow to generate better Git commit messages using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot Chat. The method involves feeding a staged diff and intent into a pro…
GitHub has updated Copilot Chat to display the status of in-progress Copilot cloud agent sessions and allow follow-up questions upon completion. The update also enables two new tools: "Get agent logs"…
GitHub Copilot experienced degraded availability for the Claude Opus 4.7 model across Copilot Chat, VS Code, and other Copilot products on June 8 due to an issue with an upstream model provider. The i…
GitHub will transition Copilot Chat from request-based to token-based billing starting Monday, using GitHub AI Credits instead of the previous Premium Request Unit system. The change applies to all Co…
Microsoft’s 365 Copilot and Copilot Chat have been recertified under ISO/IEC 42001:2023 for the second consecutive year, with an independent auditor reporting zero non-conformities and zero improvemen…