Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code are three of the strongest AI coding assistants in 2026, each with distinct strengths. Cursor offers the smoothest visual workflow for editor-based development,…
A developer created an unofficial public ledger tracking historical pricing, usage limits, and rate limits for AI coding tools including Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code. The project, hosted on…
GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API now reports GitHub Copilot app activity in enterprise and organization 1-day and 28-day reports, adding fields for daily active app users and a dedicated totals sect…
JetBrains released PhpStorm 2026.2, adding native support for more third-party AI providers, an agent skills manager, and native GitHub Copilot integration through a partnership with Microsoft. The up…
Five recent studies on AI in software engineering converge on a single finding: AI coding assistants compress upstream work, but code generation now outpaces the systems needed to safely understand, v…
GitHub Senior Director of Developer Advocacy Cassidy Williams told MS Build that agentic coding is shifting developer work toward higher-level strategy while increasing decision fatigue, making human …
Agnys launches a flight recorder for AI agents that captures every model call, tool use, file edit and shell command with zero code changes, providing tamper-evident audit trails for the EU AI Act (Ar…
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 model is experiencing degraded availability in GitHub Copilot products and IDE surfaces due to an issue with an upstream model provider, with the incident now resolved as of…
Enterprises racing to deploy autonomous AI agents face escalating risks from unconstrained agency, with real-world incidents including a Cursor AI agent deleting 70 files and a GitHub Copilot agent ex…
Mozilla.ai has introduced cq, an open-source standard and platform designed to facilitate shared learning among AI agents, eliminating duplicated effort and reducing costs. The system allows agents to…
JetBrains released WebStorm 2026.2 with native TypeScript 7 support, delivering up to a 4x faster project load time on large codebases like Kibana (from ~12 seconds to ~3 seconds). The update also inc…
JetBrains released GoLand 2026.2, introducing a new Go Optimization tool window that unifies profiling, escape analysis, and struct optimization for Go applications. The update adds pprof profiling fo…
GitHub announced on July 14, 2026 that security reviews are now available in the GitHub Copilot app. A proposed research protocol outlines how to evaluate whether reviewers using the tool can build ev…
GitHub announced on July 14, 2026 that Copilot for JetBrains expanded bring-your-own-key capabilities. A proposed accessibility test plan outlines how keyboard and screen-reader users should interact …
Atlassian shipped four AI-powered features for Jira that collapse the handoff from ticket to spec to pull request into a single loop. The suite includes a coding-agent handoff, a built-in Jira Coding …
GitHub launched a technical preview of GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer that suggests whole lines or entire functions as developers type. Developed with OpenAI and powered by OpenAI Codex, the to…
Microsoft released Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC) in public preview with SDK 0.7.0, a policy-driven OS-level sandbox for AI agents that enforces containment via JSON policies at the kernel level…
A developer tested three AI agents—GitHub Copilot with GPT-5.6, Cursor, and Windsurf—that can read entire codebases, propose multi-file changes, and execute commands. The agents use frontier models li…
A developer released ai-credit-scrub v1.1.0, a free, offline-first Go CLI that removes explicit AI-agent credit lines from commit messages and pull request bodies before they reach Git history or GitH…
Noma Labs researchers demonstrated a prompt injection attack against GitHub's Agentic Workflows, tricking the AI agent into leaking private repository contents as a public comment. The attack bypassed…