What shipped & dropped across AI labs, today.
Today
Tue · Oct 27 · 5 postsExpanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government
Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
GitHub Copilot supports server-to-server authentication
GitHub Copilot now supports server-to-server authentication for GitHub Apps installed on organizations, available in public preview. Services and agents built with the GitHub Copilot SDK can now make requests on…
Building Conversational Commerce with Multi-Agent Swarms on GCP: A Working Prototype
This document provides a publication template and metadata structure for a technical blog post focused on building Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) using AI. It outlines key developer focus areas, product stacks, and approval workflows required for publishing technical content through Google Developer Studio. The framework helps engineers organize their guides and solutions to effectively share AI-driven conversational interface designs with the developer community.
Fast, reliable A2UI, with swappable inference formats
A2UI now supports swappable inference formats, introducing A2UI Express which uses up to 3x fewer tokens and cuts latency by compiling compact Python-style syntax into standard A2UI JSON via Agent SDKs. Developers can also use controlled generation with TypeSafe's Jev system-decision models to render known-shape screens in under 300 ms while smaller models stream text. These updates require no changes to frontend renderers or component catalogs, offering flexible performance levers for generative UI development across Python, TypeScript, and Dart.
Yesterday
Mon · Oct 26 · 3 postsAnthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering
GitHub Copilot assisted permissions generally available
Assisted permissions are now generally available in GitHub Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app, and Visual Studio Code. When Copilot requests permission to run a command, access a file system path,…
GPT-6.1 Terra in GitHub Copilot
GPT-6.1 Terra, OpenAI’s newest model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for everyday agentic coding and terminal work at a lower cost than GPT-6.1 Sol. In…
Friday
Fri · Oct 23 · 6 postsDonating Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
Partnerships
Policy
Physicist Christopher Stubbs joins Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust
Usage metrics API adds usage from tools like OpenCode
The Copilot usage metrics API now reports model usage from more of the tools your developers use with Copilot, including tools like OpenCode that weren’t previously captured in your reports.…
Turn notifications into code with GitHub Copilot in Teams
The new GitHub app in Teams brings notifications and Copilot together, helping teams turn issues into fixes and ship code faster without leaving the conversation. Get notified in channels, group…
Thursday
Thu · Oct 22 · 5 postsCustom skills, agents, and MCP servers in usage metrics API
Copilot usage metrics now show the names of the skills, custom agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, slash commands, and plugins that your organization creates, instead of grouping them under…
GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio — September update
September 2026 brought deeper visibility into your work: explore pull requests without leaving chat, bring the AI model your team trusts, and fix vulnerable packages the moment Visual Studio flags…
Global default for Copilot features generally available
In September, we announced a global default policy for generally available GitHub Copilot features and supported client capabilities on Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans. Starting today, we’re gradually rolling…
Industry comparisons in the Copilot impact dashboard
The Copilot impact dashboard now includes an “Industry comparison” section. Enterprises, and organizations that aren’t owned by an enterprise, can compare their Copilot agentic adoption and leverage with aggregated benchmarks…
Architecting Governed, Self-Evolving AI Agents on Google Cloud
Learn how Project Chrysalis combines Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, Agent Development Kit (ADK), BigQuery, and a four-gate defense-in-depth security stack (Model Armor, Cloud KMS, Binary Authorization, and OPA) to build governed, self-evolving AI agents that remediate live production outages in 1.8 seconds.