The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
GitHub experienced a 7-hour and 47-minute outage on August 17 that disrupted github.com, authentication, GitHub Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot, affecting developers worldwide. The o…
GitHub experienced a 7-hour and 47-minute outage on August 17 that disrupted github.com, authentication, GitHub Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot, affecting developers worldwide. The o…
GitHub has introduced the My work pane in its Copilot app, allowing developers to manage pull requests and issues across multiple agent sessions from a centralized location. The pane includes default …
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes, allowing administrators to apply consistent control…
GitHub's Copilot app introduces canvases, a feature that makes agentic workflows visible, steerable, and cost-efficient by providing a durable shared surface for developers and agents to interact, red…
GitHub Copilot is rolling out Grok 4.6, xAI's latest reasoning model designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows, available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise SKUs. T…
GitHub introduced four agent apps—Amplitude, Endor Labs, LaunchDarkly, and PagerDuty—that integrate software delivery workflows directly into GitHub, enabling developers to scope, secure, roll out, an…
GitHub's weekly Copilot update (August 10) introduces Kimi K3 to all paid plans, makes Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available, and adds MAI-Code-1.1-Flash with image understanding. The update also brin…
GitHub's Copilot impact dashboard now includes a 'Potential return on investment' section that compares Copilot spend against pull request output for passive versus agent-first developers. The new sec…
GitHub has launched the session catalog for GitHub Universe 2026, a two-day event featuring sessions from AMD, Figma, NVIDIA, Coinbase, Anthropic, and OpenAI, with early bird registration saving $300 …
GitHub's Secure Open Source Fund invested more than $500,000 across 50 projects in Session 4, pairing maintainers with GitHub Security Lab experts, security tools, and AI-assisted workflows. The progr…
GitHub has made Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash model available in GitHub Copilot, rolling out gradually to Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users. The model, billed at provider list pricing under u…
GitHub has published a beginner's guide to writing prompts in its GitHub Copilot app, emphasizing that users can start with plain-English descriptions and refine iteratively. The guide highlights feat…
GitHub released Agent Plugins 1.0 on August 6, an open standard that packages agent skills and MCP servers into a single installable plugin, with support from AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel…
AutoGPT, the open-source project with over 180,000 stars, is embracing AI-generated pull requests rather than blocking them, according to founding AI engineer Nicholas Tindle. Tindle says the key is t…
GitHub has released the GitHub Enterprise Server 3.22 release candidate, introducing new capabilities including Copilot CLI support for air-gapped environments, general availability of Enterprise Team…
GitHub has released an update to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains that adds persistent Copilot memory across chat sessions, support for Ollama as a bring-your-own-key (BYOK) provider, and expanded enterpr…
GitHub announced the deprecation of MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences on September 10, 2026, following the launch of MAI-Code-1.1-Flash. Users are advised to update workflows and …
GitHub announced at GitHub Universe that developers are shifting from writing code to orchestrating AI agents, with GitHub Copilot serving as the control plane for building software delivery systems. …
Microsoft's MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, a small-tier coding model with native vision support, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, offering a 73% lower list price than its predecessor MAI-Code-1-Flash. The m…
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…