Project HydraFusion, now in experimental preview for Copilot CLI, picks a mix of models for each coding job at runtime — cutting estimated costs by 67% while matching frontier model quality on benchmarks.
The September 9 release lets you talk to agents while they code, schedule recurring tasks, and introduces an open spec that decouples agent sessions from the editor entirely.
A new enterprise-only setting lets admins decide which Copilot agent operations are blocked, which need human approval, and which can run automatically — and users can't override it.
Copilot code review gained approval authority this week. When administrators enable it, Copilot's sign-off counts toward your repository's merge requirements. It's off by default and configurable at the enterprise, organization, or repository level.
Gemini 3.5 Flash, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Kimi K2.7 Code, and Claude Opus 4.7 are all being cut from Copilot on October 2. The Kimi replacement costs more and is off by default for enterprise customers.
Two major model additions land in Copilot within 24 hours: GPT-6 Astra is generally available across all plans, and Google's new Gemini 3.8 Flash joins with discounted introductory rates through December.
The September 2 release adds Agent Merge preview — a loop where an agent addresses review comments, fixes failed checks, resolves conflicts, and reruns workflows until the PR is ready to merge.
The August 26 VS Code release adds cross-app agent session continuity, an experimental rubber-duck second-opinion command, and per-model token usage breakdowns in chat.
Three changes are coming to GitHub Copilot by September 28: a unified chat experience across web, mobile, and cloud agents; updated billing policies for Business and Enterprise; and a new code review default.
The new Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app centralizes MCP server discovery, plugins, skills, and canvases in one place, with a browsable featured section and category filters.
Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Opus 4.6, Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.6, and Raptor Mini are all being deprecated across every Copilot surface. Here's what to switch to.
Disney announced in late July that it would remove GitHub Copilot, Amazon Kiro, and Amazon Q from its U.S. developer toolkit in August, while bringing in OpenAI Codex. Engineers cited code that was 'needlessly complex' and access that lapsed from disuse.
Slack Code brings dedicated project channels where Claude Code, Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel's agent do the work while your whole team watches, steers, and approves it.
Two updates this month bring persistent memory across agent chats, local model support via Ollama, and centralized admin controls for plugins, MCP servers, and permission modes in JetBrains IDEs.
Microsoft's August release pulls autonomous agent work out of the extension host and into its own process, while also adding grouped side-by-side chats, a prompt timeline gutter, and in-conversation search.
Two new models landed in GitHub Copilot this week: Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI at $3 per million tokens, and MAI-Code-1.1-Flash, Microsoft's own code model with native image understanding. Agent Plugins 1.0 also went generally available.
Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model is rolling out across Copilot's Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans with usage-based billing at competitive rates.
VS Code 1.132 released August 5 with Agent Host Protocol support, a dedicated Agents Window for running multiple concurrent agent sessions, side chats via /btw, and multilingual dictation using an on-device model.
GitHub stopped accepting new Spark users on August 4 and will fully retire the AI app builder by month's end. The shutdown follows GitHub Models going dark July 30, and lands the same week Copilot got comment-triggered automations and reasoning-level controls.
A new public preview rolling out to most enterprise customers on August 3 lets AI admins grant specific Copilot models to individual teams rather than setting one policy for the whole organization. The Copilot Billing Preview app also retired today.
GitHub's July 2026 update to Copilot in Visual Studio ships a new SDK-based agent with shorter, more actionable responses, built-in .NET and Azure skills from Microsoft's own teams, a right-click code review, and organization-wide custom instructions.
VS Code 1.131 brings offline voice dictation across chat, editors, and terminals; live subagent monitoring showing model, elapsed time, and active tool; and a new hybrid Markdown editor inside the Agents window.
VS Code 1.130 extends the agent host architecture to Claude and Codex agents, adds AI-assisted tool approvals, compact multi-file diffs in the Agents window, credit usage visibility for Copilot Business users, and bundles TypeScript 7.
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