What shipped & dropped across AI labs, today.
Today
Tue · Aug 11 · 6 posts
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash available in GitHub Copilot
MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Microsoft’s latest small-tier coding model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Building on MAI-Code-1-Flash, it adds native vision support for image understanding and delivers improvements across coding quality,…
Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering
As AI coding assistants shift the developer's primary role from writing boilerplate to reviewing and maintaining systems, language choice becomes critical for long-term architectural integrity. Go directly addresses this new paradigm by utilizing its strict compiler, integrated toolchain, and uncompromising readability to provide deterministic guardrails that help AI models self-correct and generate highly standardized code. By enforcing ecosystem-wide consistency and strict backward compatibility, the Go platform empowers engineering teams to efficiently verify, optimize, and maintain high-velocity, AI-generated output in production environments.
Compliance API coverage extends to Claude Cowork and Claude Code
Claude's Compliance API now covers Cowork across the desktop app, web, and mobile, as well as Claude Code in the CLI and desktop app. Coverage is in beta for Claude Enterprise customers.
Introducing Grok Bot
Grok Bot is your team of always-on agents. They have their own computer, work inside tools and apps like you do, and keep working 24/7.
Per-model token breakdown in the usage report
You can now see a per-model breakdown of the tokens behind your AI credits in the usage report. For each model, the AI usage report shows the input, output, cache…
Mastering Edge AI on Raspberry Pi with LiteRT and Gemma
Deploying secure, real-time Edge AI on Raspberry Pi is now simplified using LiteRT and lightweight Gemma open models. LiteRT optimizes CPU and GPU performance, delivering fast token speeds for models like Gemma4, enabling real-time local reasoning for robotics. Developers can quickly convert, quantize, and run these models using the lightweight LiteRT CLI tool. Support for Hailo AI accelerators is also coming very soon.
Yesterday
Mon · Aug 10 · 1 postFriday
Fri · Aug 7 · 9 postsHow Anthropic's business development team uses Claude to run inbound and outbound at scale
A business development rep shares how his team uses Claude to research account books, draft customer replies, and handle ad-hoc data analysis requests.
Imagine Image 2.0
Precise image generation and editing, built for real creative work.
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 3
This week's updates across GitHub Copilot in the desktop app, CLI, and VS Code help you resume and organize work, review changes, and ask questions without losing context.
Copilot 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…
Thursday
Thu · Aug 6 · 4 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.