What shipped & dropped across AI labs, today.
Yesterday
Fri · Sep 11 · 3 posts
Add VS Code Agents to Copilot usage metrics
GitHub Copilot usage metrics reports now include generally available metrics for activity in the dedicated VS Code Agents window, helping you measure adoption and engagement across enterprises and organizations. What’s…
Auto-resolution and analysis updates in Copilot code review
Copilot code review now resolves its own comments once you address them and writes smart commit messages for you when you apply its code suggestions. Behind the scenes, Copilot now…
Autonomous LLM post-training with Tunix on TPUs
Imagine going to sleep after writing a single Markdown specification and waking up to find that an A...
Thursday
Thu · Sep 10 · 4 postsGitHub Copilot weekly releases — September 7
This week, GitHub Copilot introduces Jira integration in Copilot app and adaptive model orchestration with Project HydraFusion in Copilot CLI. We also introduced new agent automation in Visual Studio Code…
What 1,000 small business owners taught us about AI
Lina Ochman, Head of U.S. SMB at Anthropic, shares what she learned during our Claude Small Business Tour, and what’s next for the program.
MAI-Code-1-Flash deprecated
We have deprecated MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) today, September 10, 2026. Model Deprecation date Suggested alternative…
T. Rowe Price brings more of Claude to its investment process
How T. Rowe Price is using Claude across the business, from driving fundamental research to building investment tools.
Wednesday
Wed · Sep 9 · 3 postsEnterprise managed permissions for GitHub Copilot agent operations
If you administer GitHub Copilot Business or GitHub Copilot Enterprise, you can now centrally control which agent operations are blocked, require human approval, or can proceed without a prompt. Managed…
The Anatomy of Harness Engineering: How to Evaluate, Iterate, and Guard AI Coding Agents
While end-to-end benchmarks like SWE-bench provide broad performance scores for AI agents, they are often expensive, slow, and lack the root-cause diagnostics needed to explain exactly where an agent's logic broke down. To solve this, developers should adopt behavioral evaluations—fast, local, unit-style tests that assert on discrete intermediate actions, such as verifying specific tool calls or file modifications rather than final string equality. By building these inexpensive micro-checks alongside macro benchmarks, engineering teams can confidently iterate on system prompts and upgrade models without the risk of regressions.
Announcing ADK for Kotlin 1.0: Building Production-Ready AI Agents in Kotlin, Android, and Beyond
Google has officially released version 1.0 of the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin, achieving full feature parity with the Python and Java ADK cores to enable idiomatic, multi-agent AI development. Built on Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP), the framework leverages Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) for zero-reflection, type-safe function calling, alongside advanced orchestration capabilities like human-in-the-loop workflows and context compaction. Additionally, the release introduces a robust suite of Android-first extensions, allowing mobile developers to integrate local models via LiteRT-LM, cloud reasoning through Firebase AI, session persistence using Room, and semantic memory powered by AppSearch.
Tuesday
Tue · Sep 8 · 2 postsEnterprise-managed sandbox in Copilot for JetBrains
This update brings support for enterprise-managed sandbox policies, cross-file cursor jumps for next edit suggestions, global project context in chat, enterprise policy diagnostics, and a new connection between terminal Copilot…
Reducing cost and improving performance with Claude Platform
Tuning prompt caching, instructions, and effort can reduce Claude's cost without sacrificing application performance.
September 4
Fri · Sep 4 · 4 postsGitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 31
This week, GitHub Copilot expands model choice while VS Code adds new ways to manage agent sessions and get pull requests merge-ready.
GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot
GPT-6 Astra from OpenAI is now available in GitHub Copilot. OpenAI’s latest general-purpose model, GPT-6 Astra, is designed for long-horizon, autonomous coding and agentic tasks. In our internal testing, GPT-6…
Setting Grok Bot loose on procurement
We gave Grok Bot access to vendor spend, contracts, and usage data. It found more than $100,000 in direct savings.
Driving Developer Excellence: Inside the Program Sprints
The Gemini Enterprise Developer Experience (DevEx) program conducts ongoing sprint testing of end-to-end developer workflows to identify and rapidly resolve friction points without relying on internal shortcuts. This recent sprint focused on optimizing enterprise AI governance, including refining setup prerequisites, securing extension configurations, and clarifying policy enforcement mechanics to ensure a smoother, more reliable deployment. Developers can now leverage updated documentation and standardized code samples to improve their experience with Agent Gateway and Semantic Governance configurations.
September 3
Thu · Sep 3 · 4 postsGrok Bot for Enterprise
Grok Bot is now available for enterprises. Grok and Cursor Enterprise customers have free usage for the next two weeks, and can invite their whole organization, including people without an existing seat.
Gemini 3.8 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
Gemini 3.8 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now available in GitHub Copilot. In our early testing, Gemini 3.8 Flash performed strongly on complex terminal-based coding tasks and demonstrated rigorous…
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models
We will deprecate the following models across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) on October 2nd, 2026: Model Deprecation date…
Designing Grok Bot for a world of persistent agents
How we designed Grok Bot for agents that persist beyond a single session — from a chat history to a Bot roster, presence, a computer of the Bot’s own, and work that starts without a prompt.