What shipped & dropped across AI labs, today.
Today
Fri · Aug 7 · 6 postsCopilot impact dashboard adds a return on investment section
The Copilot impact dashboard now includes a “Potential return on investment” section that connects what you spend on Copilot to the pull request output you get back. What’s new Two…
Copilot code review effort levels are generally available
Lite and Balanced effort levels for GitHub Copilot code review are now generally available. They let you match the depth of a review to the complexity and risk of a…
Copilot usage metrics API adds agent app activity
Since agent apps arrived on GitHub, teams have been able to run agents from partners like Claude and Codex directly in their GitHub workflows. The Copilot usage metrics API now…
Running auto mode in production
How customers like Nuro, Gusto, and Garner Health use auto mode to drive safer, longer running coding workflows.
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
Claude Code will soon run auto mode by default for Pro, Max, and Team plans, enabling longer-running autonomous work, and catching more dangerous commands.
GitHub Code Quality no longer adds Copilot as a reviewer
Enabling GitHub Code Quality on a repository no longer creates a ruleset that automatically requests a code review from GitHub Copilot on your pull requests. In repositories that already have…
Yesterday
Thu · Aug 6 · 5 postsMCP allowlists in enterprise managed settings
Enterprise owners can now centrally control which Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers GitHub Copilot clients are allowed to run by using the new `allowedMcpServers` and `deniedMcpServers` keys in enterprise managed settings.
Run Claude Code sessions on your own compute
Self-hosted environments are in public beta. Run Claude Code sessions on your own infrastructure, inside your network and next to your internal services.
Kimi K3 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Editor’s note (August 6, 2026): We have resumed rolling out Kimi K3 in GitHub Copilot. This model is billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing. See GitHub Copilot’s pricing…
Agent Plugins package your skills, tools, and more
Agent Plugins 1.0.0 is a new, vendor-neutral directory specification—backed by Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and others—for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers into a single portable unit. By standardizing the manifest (plugin.json) and utilizing a fixed directory layout, it eliminates the need for developers to maintain separate wrappers or configurations to support different AI coding agents and IDEs. Google has officially joined as a Core Maintainer and already rolled out support in the Agents CLI and Data Agent Kit, allowing developers to start building and distributing interoperable plugins today.
Millennium and Anthropic are building a digital risk analyst with Claude
Anthropic is working with Millennium to co-develop a digital risk analyst to surface new risk insights and form opinions on risk exposure across asset classes.
Wednesday
Wed · Aug 5 · 2 postsScaling AI Agent Infrastructure with the MCP Stateless updates
The 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification replaces legacy stateful constraints with a fully stateless core, enabling cloud-native horizontal scaling, serverless deployments, and standard round-robin load balancing. This architectural shift introduces standardized HTTP headers for efficient routing without deep packet inspection, caching controls, and Multi Round-Trip Requests (MRTR) to handle interactive and long-running tasks without blocking connections. Developers can immediately begin migrating their agentic applications to this highly scalable infrastructure using the newly available beta SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, and C#.
Inference hooks: inline data loss prevention for Claude Enterprise
Inference hooks lets your compliance team inspect and enforce policy on every prompt and tool call response before they reach Claude — across Claude Enterprise surfaces including chat, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and more.
Tuesday
Tue · Aug 4 · 4 postsA guide to cost visibility and control in Claude
How IT admins can see and manage Claude costs, including spend caps, model controls, usage analytics, and API features like prompt caching and batch processing.
Retiring the Copilot Billing Preview app
We’ve retired the GitHub Copilot Billing Preview app, and it’s no longer available. You can review and manage your Copilot spend directly in your GitHub billing settings. The app helped…
Mariano-Florentino (Tino) Cuéllar to join Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer
A unified API for AI model routing
Google Cloud API Gateway now offers a model routing feature in Public Preview, allowing developers to dynamically route traffic to models like Gemini, Claude, or OpenAI OSS-GPT without hardcoding endpoints or managing open-source proxies. Developers can easily configure these routing rules directly within their OpenAPI 3.x specifications by mapping virtual model names to specific backend targets on a shared host. Once deployed, the Gateway acts as a serverless ingress layer that accepts standard OpenAI-compatible requests, automatically transcodes the payload to the native schema of the target model, and routes the traffic on the fly.
Monday
Mon · Aug 3 · 3 postsTrigger Copilot automations with comments
You can now create Copilot cloud agent automations that run when an issue comment or pull request comment is created. Common use cases include: Generate documentation: Comment on a pull…
Enterprise team specialization for managed settings
Enterprise administrators can now customize managed settings by targeting enterprise teams with itemized configuration files. Large enterprises can scale governance without bottlenecking every configuration change through central administrators or one-size-fits-all…
Customize the reasoning level for Copilot cloud agent
When you delegate a task to GitHub Copilot cloud agent, you can now set the reasoning level for models that support it. This allows you to control how much the…