What shipped & dropped across AI labs, today.
Yesterday
Thu · Jul 30 · 5 posts
Frontier Red TeamInvestigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, July 2026 releases
This changelog covers VS Code v1.127 through v1.131, shipped throughout July 2026. These releases improve how you work with agents, review changes, use chat, and navigate VS Code. They also…
Limit remote control to managed devices
Enterprises and organizations can now restrict which devices are eligible to host remotely controlled Copilot sessions, giving administrators fine-grained control over where remote control access is permitted. The new remoteControl…
How to use Google microbenchmarks for evaluating TPU performance
Google's open-source TPU microbenchmark suite provides developers with granular performance metrics across Network, Compute, HBM, Host Transfer, and Attention components to validate real-world hardware capabilities. By leveraging these benchmarks to establish a Roofline model, engineers can accurately diagnose whether their machine learning workloads are compute-, memory-, or network-bound. This empirical baseline directly guides targeted software optimizations—such as kernel tuning, mesh sharding, and rematerialization—to maximize hardware utilization for large-scale model deployments.
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — July update
July 2026 brought a new agent based on the Copilot SDK, built-in expertise from the .NET and Azure teams, and more ways to tailor GitHub Copilot to how you and…
Wednesday
Wed · Jul 29 · 4 postsCopilot code review: Agent skills and MCP now generally available
Copilot code review support for agent skills and MCP servers is now generally available for all Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise users. Previously announced in public preview, these capabilities…
Cursor, now on iPad
Cursor for iPad is now available on all paid plans. New to both iPhone and iPad: an inbox to stay organized, and a review experience that covers the full PR. Create, review, and merge from anywhere. #Built for the bigger screen The iPad layout is rebuilt around the extra space. Sidebar chats stay pinned so you can watch several agents run at once. Split screen keeps a review open next to a chat, and file diffs render in full. Markup gets more room to work too. Attach a screenshot, then tap to drop a comment at a specific point, or draw directly on the image with Apple Pencil. #A full review surface On iPhone and iPad, the review screen now covers the full PR: comments, checks, and approvals. Add or change reviewers, read comments, and prompt the agent to resolve them. The whole path from agent output to merged PR now travels with you. #Inbox An Inbox helps you and your agents stay organized. See what's in progress, what needs your attention, and which PRs are in review. #Additional improvements for Cursor on iPhone and iPad Bitbucket and Azure DevOps SCM support Multi-PR sessions: when one chat creates multiple PRs, you can now open every one of them, not just the last. Switch between teams that you belong to directly in the app Download the Cursor App or read our docs to learn more.
Introducing Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0
Introducing our most capable speech-to-speech voice model.
Default model enablement for Copilot Business and Enterprise
We’re introducing a global default enablement policy for generally available Copilot models on Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans. Instead of requiring admins to manually turn on each new model…
Tuesday
Tue · Jul 28 · 6 postsGitHub Copilot app usage metrics now expand across report rollups
Copilot app usage is now reported across much more of the Copilot usage metrics API. Individual Copilot app activity is now attributed to users in the enterprise-user and organization-user reports.…
Grok 4.5 in GitHub Copilot
Grok 4.5, our smartest coding model, is now available in GitHub Copilot.
Grok 4.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Grok 4.5, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for fast, agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows, with a context window of up…
Bringing MCP 2026-07-28 to Claude
The MCP 2026-07-28 spec is live, moving the Model Context Protocol to a stateless core with standardized extensions and hardened auth. Support is rolling out across Claude products soon. See what's new and how MCP is advancing in Claude.
Introducing Build Mode
Create and share websites, apps, games, and interactive dashboards. Now in Early Beta for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers on grok.com, iOS, and Android.
Cursor Start
We're introducing Cursor Start, a new ₹649 monthly plan for developers in India, making daily agentic development accessible and payment easy with local pricing and UPI. Existing Free users in India can upgrade their plan from the dashboard. New users in India can visit cursor.com/signup and select the Start plan during onboarding. Start bills monthly with auto-renewal and is available from July 28, 2026. Cursor Start includes: Generous access to Cursor models: Grok 4.5 (fixed medium effort, non-fast) and Composer (non-fast), with enough usage to build with agents every day. Always-on cloud agents that build, test, and ship code while you keep working. Cursor for iOS with remote control, so you can launch and steer agents from your phone. Plugins, MCP servers, hooks, and skills to extend Cursor across your workflows. Local pricing at ₹649 per month, tax inclusive, billed in INR with UPI or card. Learn more in our announcement and docs.
Monday
Mon · Jul 27 · 5 postsGitHub Copilot for JetBrains adds improved OpenTelemetry configuration and model management
This update brings more control and clarity to your GitHub Copilot for JetBrains workflows. You can now connect MCP servers and custom agents in Claude agent flows, tune telemetry and…
Enterprise managed settings in the GitHub Copilot app and Copilot cloud agent
You can now govern the GitHub Copilot app and Copilot cloud agent with enterprise managed settings, the same centrally managed policies you use to control Copilot across your enterprise. With…
Our position on open-weights models
Manage GitHub Copilot app access with a dedicated policy
The GitHub Copilot app now has its own policy, so you can control who has access to it at the enterprise and organization levels. Until now, access to the Copilot…