What shipped & dropped across AI labs, today.
Today
Fri · Jul 10 · 2 postsSide Chats and Conversation Search
This release makes it easier to stay in flow with side chats that run alongside your main chat, the ability to search agent transcripts, and simplified project and repo pickers. #Side chats Open a side chat to ask questions, explore ideas, and investigate tangents without interrupting your main agent conversation. Use /side, /btw, or the plus button at the top of the chat panel to create a new side chat that has context from the main chat. Each side chat is a durable, full agent conversation that you can follow up on, revisit later, and at-mention to pull context back into the main thread. By default, side chats focus on reading, searching, and answering. Use them to ask clarification questions, research alternatives without committing to a pivot, and sanity-check a decision while the main agent continues running. #Conversation search Find past agent chats faster with search results that go beyond names and PR numbers. In the Agents Window, you can search agent transcripts from the command palette (Cmd+K). Cursor builds a local search index that scales search to thousands of conversations with snappy performance. You can also search within an existing conversation using Cmd+F. Jump between matches, see a match counter, and keep searching as you scroll through long transcripts. #Redesigned project and repo pickers We've simplified the project and repo pickers and made them more powerful. You can now stay in the picker for workflows that used to send you elsewhere. For example, you can create a project and connect GitHub, GitLab, or Azure DevOps without leaving the picker. Search is now scoped to where you're working—This Computer, Cloud, or a specific remote machine—instead of one global search box. You can also remove projects from Recents with one click. #New cloud agent hooks Cloud agents already support team hooks around tool execution and file/shell work. We've added new hooks that let you observe and control the agent conversation itself: prompts, responses, thinking, subagents, compaction, and turn completion. See all the supported hooks in our docs. New hooks like beforeSubmitPrompt, afterAgentResponse, afterAgentThought, stop, subagentStart, and more allow you to better observe output and reasoning, control subagents, and build self-correcting loops with cloud agents. Picker Improvements↓↑ Improved repo picker grouping with options under No Repo, On This Computer, and Cloud. Added the "Run on" picker that shows where your agent can run (Cloud, This Computer, or Remote Machines) and drills into the relevant choices (environments, local options, and so on) from there. The branch picker opens on your default branch and recently used branches instead of a long flat list, with search for everything else. Removed the Home concept so working without a repo is an explicit No Repo choice. Combined all remote options—your machines, team pools, and existing remote workspaces—into one searchable Remote Machines menu. Multi-repo and multi-root selection is a Select Multiple toggle inside the Cloud and This Computer flyouts, replacing the separate Set Up Workspace builder. Moved search to the top of the menu. Simplified the footer. Added the ability to find the No Repo option by typing none or no repo. If a repo exists only in the cloud, the picker suggests cloning it locally. Added clearer section dividers. Added folder icons with a small cloud badge for cloud repos. Removed redundant Current tag in the branch list.
Working at the frontier: How Cognition trusts Claude Fable 5 to work through the night
Cognition tested Claude Fable 5 in Devin, its AI software engineer. It's the first model its team trusts to run unattended for eight hours and deliver production-ready code.
Yesterday
Thu · Jul 9 · 7 posts
Case StudyUST is bringing Claude to physical AI
LiteRT.js, Google's high performance Web AI Inference
We're excited to introduce LiteRT.js, the newest member of the LiteRT family! LiteRT.js is our powerful solution for running machine learning models directly in the browser, extending Google's cross-platform edge AI runtime to the web. Built for JavaScript developers, LiteRT.js delivers state-of-the-art ML model inference performance on WebGPU and upcoming WebNN, with a fallback to WebAssembly for CPU. This post provides a quick tour of LiteRT.js and gives web developers everything they need to get started.
Inviting hard questions
We’re asking the public for their hardest questions about AI, and committing to show our work as we address them.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna are now available in GitHub Copilot
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. GPT-5.6 comes in three variants, Sol, Terra, and Luna, so you can match the model to the job, whether that’s…
Ben Bernanke appointed to Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust
Ask Copilot for a repository overview
You can now ask GitHub Copilot for a high-level overview of any repository you’re exploring for the first time. When you visit the home page of a repository you haven’t…
Introducing a way to reflect on how you use Claude
Wednesday
Wed · Jul 8 · 7 postsDeploy managed Copilot settings via MDM in VS Code and CLI
Enterprise administrators can now deliver managed GitHub Copilot settings directly to devices through native mobile device management (MDM) and file-based configuration, in addition to the existing server-managed channel. This is…
Enterprise-managed OpenTelemetry export for VS Code and CLI
Organizations can now mandate where GitHub Copilot sends OpenTelemetry (OTel) data, so telemetry flows to an approved collector without each developer setting OTEL_* environment variables. The configuration is delivered through…
Introducing Grok 4.5
Grok 4.5 is SpaceXAI's smartest model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work.
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, June 2026 releases
This changelog covers VS Code v1.123 through v1.127, shipped throughout June and early July 2026. The latest VS Code releases build on the Copilot experience developers use every day, making…
How Anthropic's marketing operations team uses Claude Cowork to automate reporting and campaign builds
How the marketing operations team at Anthropic uses Claude Cowork to automate marketing reporting and marketing campaign builds.
Bridging the Domain Gap: AI Race Coach built with Antigravity and Gemini
On May 23, 2026, fresh off the stage at Google I/O, our Google Developer Experts (GDEs) converged on...
Working at the frontier: How Thomson Reuters builds AI for high-stakes professional work
Why the team at Thomson Reuters considers Claude Fable 5 a critical evolution in what’s possible with AI for knowledge work.
Tuesday
Tue · Jul 7 · 4 postsCodex as agent provider and agentic enhancements in JetBrains IDEs
This update brings Codex as a new agent provider in public preview, expands the Customizations editor with Hooks support and richer MCP server management, and introduces custom model support configured…
Add review cycles and time to adoption phases in the usage API
The Copilot usage metrics API now reports two additional code-review velocity metrics for each AI adoption phase, extending the adoption phase cohorts fields available in the enterprise and organization reports.…
Kimi K2.7 now available for Copilot Business and Enterprise
On July 1, 2026, we announced Kimi K2.7 would be available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max plans. The model is now additionally available on Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise…
Per-user budgets for cost centers in the billing UI
Enterprise admins can now create cost center user-level budgets directly in the billing UI where you manage cost centers and budgets. This feature is available for GitHub Enterprise Cloud. This…