GitHub Copilot for Jira is now generally available
Copilot for Jira moves from public preview to GA, with streaming agent progress in Jira tickets, post-session steering that continues on the same draft PR, and simplified org/repo onboarding.
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Copilot for Jira moves from public preview to GA, with streaming agent progress in Jira tickets, post-session steering that continues on the same draft PR, and simplified org/repo onboarding.
GitHub adjusted the model lineup for Copilot's Free and Student tiers, changing which models are reachable from those plans.
GitHub shipped GA of a new Copilot CLI TUI with tabs for Session, Gists, Issues, and PRs, inline MCP/skills/plugin commands, and screen reader detection.
GitHub Copilot in JetBrains IDEs now lets users pick Claude from the agent provider menu by pointing at a local Claude Code CLI install. The same release adds org/enterprise GitHub agents, queue-and-steer in Copilot CLI sessions, and an agent debug-logs summary view.
xAI becomes the third independent lab on Bedrock after Anthropic and OpenAI. 1M context, configurable reasoning effort, $1.25/$2.50 per M tokens.
Free Grok add-in for Word, Excel and PowerPoint with live web research, inline source citations, X data lookups, Mermaid diagrams, and connectors for email, SharePoint and Google Drive.
Grok models are now natively available in Databricks Agent Bricks. Agents can reason directly over Lakehouse data without exfiltration, with governance through Unity Catalog.
Comet for iOS shipped its eighth round of improvements: one-tap phone-number actions (Call, FaceTime, Message, save to Contacts), a refined iPad sidebar, and Finance Deep Dive opening as a real browser tab.
xAI launched Voice Agent Builder in beta — a no-code platform for production voice agents on Grok Voice with telephony, SIP, voice cloning, and observability at $0.05/min. Available from July 1, 2026.
GitHub Mobile app gained the ability to fix pull request comments using the Copilot cloud agent directly on iOS/Android — no desktop editor required.
The first xAI model on Bedrock — Grok 4.3 with a 1M context window, configurable reasoning effort, $1.25 in / $2.50 out per MTok. Cheapest US-lab frontier reasoner on Bedrock.
Microsoft's small coding model MAI-Code-1-Flash is rolling out across eight Copilot surfaces: CLI, Copilot app, Chat on GitHub, Visual Studio, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Xcode.
The Copilot usage metrics API now exposes an 'ai_credits_used' field with total AI credit consumption per user in both daily and 28-day reports at the enterprise and org levels.
GitHub announced the deprecation of the Opus 4.6 (fast) model in Copilot; users are advised to migrate to current Opus generations or to Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash for fast tasks.
Cursor 3.8 introduces a /automate skill that creates an automation in your local agent session from a plain-language description, plus new GitHub and Slack triggers and computer-use support.
Cursor launched Cursor Router on July 22, an intelligent model routing system that classifies each request by type and complexity and routes it to the optimal model based on quality or cost preference.
The native desktop home for agent-driven development hit GA on all three OSes. Voice conversations via on-device speech-to-text, integrated with session management and github.com.
The new Bugbot cuts review time from ~5 minutes to ~90 seconds, finds 10 % more bugs and costs 22 % less per run; adds a /review pre-push flow.