GitHub Copilot has introduced four changes to reduce token usage and improve cost efficiency in AI coding without sacrificing task quality, as detailed in a post by the GitHub team. The changes includ…
GitHub has made generally available an optional expiration date for individual user budgets in GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans, allowing administrators to set a budget to expire a…
GitHub's Copilot code review can now approve pull requests, with the feature off by default and configurable at the enterprise, organization, and repository levels. The approval assessment appears in …
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot, according to GitHub. The model, designed for long-horizon autonomous coding tasks, requires data retention by default for saf…
GitHub has updated Copilot model access for users with seats in multiple organizations, so access is now determined solely by the organization paying for usage, aligning billing and governance. The ch…
GitHub deprecated six AI models across most GitHub Copilot experiences as of September 1, 2026, including Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and Ra…
GitHub Copilot in VS Code's August 2026 releases (v1.132–v1.135) adds features for organizing agent sessions, reviewing changes, and navigating long conversations, including side-by-side chat layouts,…
GitHub announced that starting September 1, 2026, it will reopen sign-ups for Copilot Business and Enterprise customers paying by credit card or PayPal, with new billing policies effective October 1, …
GitHub's August 2026 update for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026 adds organization-level custom agents, model thinking effort controls (Low, Medium, High), better model management, and a Git agent…
GitHub released weekly updates for GitHub Copilot on August 24, adding team sessions in Slack and Microsoft Teams, a generally available Customize tab in the Copilot app, and new CLI features includin…
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 announced that Copilot code review now supports pull requests authored by bots, including Copilot cloud agent, and very large pull requests, removing the previous 300-file or 20,000-line limit.…
OpenClaw, a personal AI assistant created by Peter Steinberger as a weekend project in November 2025, has become the fastest-growing project in GitHub history, with approximately 388,000 stars, 81,000…
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 is rolling out enforcement of its global model policy for GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise plans through September 1, making previously unconfigured and new generally available models inh…
GitHub has introduced automations in its GitHub Copilot app that allow developers to triage Dependabot pull requests automatically, grouping them by risk, verifying CI status, and delivering a summary…
GitHub's security team developed a framework for evaluating LLM-based systems in production, focusing on reducing false positives in secret scanning while preserving recall as a safety constraint. The…
GitHub has announced the general availability of the Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app, which centralizes MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases for tailoring Copilot to team workflows. The …
GitHub has launched a public preview of its GitHub Copilot agentic capabilities within Slack, allowing users to mention @GitHub to plan changes, investigate issues, and hand off coding tasks directly …
GitHub has launched a public preview of GitHub Copilot cloud agent sessions in Microsoft Teams, allowing users to mention @GitHub in a channel, thread, or direct message to start a collaborative agent…