GitHub Copilot CLI now features auto model selection that routes tasks to the optimal AI model based on real-time utilization and health metrics, improving reliability and token efficiency. The featur…
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5, a new Sonnet-class model with strong coding performance, is now generally available for GitHub Copilot. The model excels in CLI-style tasks and offers competitive latency,…
JetBrains and GitHub announced a deeper integration making GitHub Copilot a first-class agent in JetBrains AI Assistant, allowing developers to select Copilot as the active agent for coding tasks, cho…
GitHub announced per-user AI credit budgets for cost centers, allowing enterprise admins to set a single budget that applies to every individual in a cost center and automatically follows membership c…
GitHub Copilot is rolling out a preview of Claude Opus 4.8 (fast mode), offering faster output token speeds while maintaining the same intelligence as the standard model. The fast mode is available at…
GitHub now allows repository admins to restrict issue creation to collaborators with write access, reducing unwanted issues and aligning with pull request permissions. The setting is available in the …
GitHub added total pull request merges by AI adoption phase to Copilot usage metrics in enterprise and organization reports, enabling administrators to track absolute throughput and adoption impact on…
Microsoft AI's MAI-Code-1-Flash coding model is now generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, offering fast, low-latency responses for high-volume agentic coding workflow…
GitHub released Desktop 3.6 with Git worktree support and deeper Copilot integration, including AI-powered commit authoring and merge conflict resolution. The update uses the Copilot SDK and allows mo…
GitHub evaluated its Copilot agentic harness across multiple benchmarks and models, finding it achieves task completion rates on par with vendor harnesses while using fewer tokens. The harness powers …
GitHub's Copilot code review now uses CLI-based file exploration tools, reducing costs by 20% while maintaining quality. Medium analysis depth public preview adds organization-level default settings a…
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…
GitHub Copilot for Jira is now generally available, introducing real-time agent progress streaming, post-session steering, and simplified onboarding. The integration, which launched in public preview …
GitHub is changing model selection for Copilot Free and Student plans to use auto model selection as the default, removing manual choice. Auto dynamically selects the best model for each task, and Mic…
GitHub has made the redesigned terminal interface for Copilot CLI generally available, featuring a tabbed layout for browsing issues, pull requests, and gists, a guided tool configuration experience, …
GitHub joined an open source coalition including Black Forest Labs, Hugging Face, and Mozilla Corporation to advocate for amendments to California's AI Transparency Act (SB 942/SB 1000), arguing that …
GitHub Copilot app now supports bring your own key (BYOK), allowing users to run agent sessions against their own model providers including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, and self-hosted models. Key…
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs now supports organization and enterprise agents from GitHub, allows queuing and steering messages in CLI sessions, introduces an agent debug logs summary view, and br…
GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API now reports AI credits consumed per user per day, enabling enterprise administrators and organization owners to track consumption alongside usage data. The new `ai_c…
GitHub built Qubot, an internal Copilot-powered analytics agent that allows employees to ask questions about data in plain language via Slack, VS Code, and Copilot CLI. The agent uses a federated cont…