GitHub Copilot changes model selection for Free and Student plans
GitHub adjusted the model lineup for Copilot's Free and Student tiers, changing which models are reachable from those plans.
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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.
Vercel AI Gateway added Sakana AI's Fugu Ultra, a multi-agent orchestration model that routes work across 1-3 frontier-model agents and merges results, benchmarking comparably to Claude Mythos Preview and Fable 5.
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.
Vercel launched Connect, a new agent-infrastructure primitive providing short-lived scoped OAuth tokens for Slack, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Salesforce, Figma, Snowflake, Discord, plus generic OAuth/API-key and MCP server connectors.
GitHub Mobile app gained the ability to fix pull request comments using the Copilot cloud agent directly on iOS/Android — no desktop editor required.
Vercel shipped Konsistent on July 1 to enforce uniform code standards for both AI agents and human developers, alongside a Security Dashboard in private beta and dry-run deployments for the Vercel CLI.
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.
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.
Eve is a TypeScript-native open-source framework where every agent = a directory of files (instructions.md + tools/ + skills/). Built in: durable execution, per-agent sandbox, human approvals, evals, OpenTelemetry. Plus the Sandbox runtime now goes up to 24h.