MAI-Code-1-Flash is now GA for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise
Microsoft on June 26 made MAI-Code-1-Flash, its fast 5B-parameter coding model, generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise plans.
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Microsoft on June 26 made MAI-Code-1-Flash, its fast 5B-parameter coding model, generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise plans.
GitHub Desktop 3.6 brings native Git worktree support and Copilot SDK-powered commit messages and merge conflict resolution.
Cursor 3.9 (June 22) unifies management of plugins, skills, MCPs, subagents, rules, commands, and hooks in a new Customize hub including a leaderboard of popular plugins.
Copilot Code Review switched to grep/rg/glob/view tools and now costs ~20% less. Admins can set default review depth for the whole org. CLI adds queueing and debug-logs.
GitHub Copilot added an enterprise admin setting strictKnownMarketplaces that locks extension/plugin installs to approved marketplaces. It applies to both VS Code and the Copilot CLI, closing a supply-chain attack vector via third-party extensions.
xAI added /goal to Grok Build — a long-running autonomous mode that plans, executes and verifies multi-step coding tasks with status, pause, resume and clear controls.
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.
Google deprecated temperature, top_p, and top_k sampling parameters for the latest Gemini models. The API also now allows combining built-in tools (Google Search, code execution) with custom function calling in a single request.
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.
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.
Cursor added interactive canvas support for cloud agents with shareable links, a beta Environments API for programmatic environment management, and made large environments 5x faster to load with support for up to 300 repositories.