GitHub announced three upcoming changes to Copilot policies and billing, effective September 1 and October 1, 2026. Starting September 1, 2026, new Copilot Business and Enterprise customers paying by …
GitHub's global model policy for Copilot Business and Enterprise began enforcement on August 26, enabling all generally available AI models by default unless explicitly disabled, with full enforcement…
GitHub announced that enterprise-managed settings now support autoUpdate for plugin marketplaces, allowing organizations to set autoUpdate: true on extraKnownMarketplaces entries to automatically upda…
GitHub has added a per-model token breakdown to the AI usage report, showing input, output, cache read, and cache write tokens alongside AI credits for each model. The feature is available to admins o…
GitHub announced enterprise team specialization for managed settings, allowing administrators to customize Copilot governance per team via itemized configuration files. The feature, now enforced in VS…
GitHub deprecated Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences as of July 31, 2026, with Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) and Gemini 3.6 Flash suggested as alternatives. Copilot Ent…
GitHub is introducing a global default enablement policy for generally available Copilot models on Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans, making new models on by default instead of requiring m…
GitHub's Billing Controls help administrators investigate unexpected AI cost increases by tracing usage to specific organizations and cost centers, then applying guardrails at the appropriate level. A…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5, its newest Opus model designed for complex, multi-step coding tasks, is now available in GitHub Copilot for Copilot Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users across multiple…
Microsoft Research published the first peer-reviewed field study measuring the impact of AI coding agents on tens of thousands of its engineers, finding a sustained 24% increase in merged pull request…
GitHub now lets Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers on GitHub Enterprise Cloud manage AI credit pools for cost centers directly in the billing UI, a feature previously restricted to the …
GitHub has made the open-weight Kimi K2.7 Code model available to Copilot Business and Enterprise plans as of July 1, 2026. The model, hosted on Microsoft Azure, offers a lower-cost option for coding …
GitHub now allows enterprises to cap AI credit usage per cost center via the REST API, preventing one group from using credits paid for by another. The feature automatically calculates pool limits bas…
GitHub moved all Copilot plans to token-based AI Credits on June 1, 2026, replacing flat-rate subscriptions with usage-based billing that charges per token for agent mode, PR reviews, and chat. Develo…
GitHub announced public preview of strictKnownMarketplaces enterprise-managed settings for VS Code and GitHub Copilot CLI, enabling administrators to restrict plugin installations to approved marketpl…
Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in its Copilot Enterprise chatbot that allowed hackers to steal two-factor authentication codes and access sensitive organizational data through a single cli…
GitHub deprecated GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex across most Copilot experiences on June 5, 2026, with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.3-Codex as suggested replacements. The models remain available for Copilot code revi…
GitHub launched a technical preview of the GitHub Copilot app, a new desktop experience for agent-driven development that integrates the full development lifecycle from issue to merge. The app allows …
GitHub released a new Copilot desktop app in technical preview at Microsoft Build, designed as an agent-native control center for developers managing multiple AI agents in parallel. The app provides a…
GitHub has introduced targeted model rules for Copilot, now in public preview, allowing enterprise owners to assign specific AI models to individual organizations rather than applying a single enterpr…