Amazon CloudWatch now surfaces OpenTelemetry metrics from AI coding tools in a ready-made dashboard, letting engineering leaders track usage, cost, latency, and tool approvals across Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and GitHub Copilot.
Claude Opus 5, Anthropic's newest flagship model, is now available in GitHub Copilot on Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans. It targets agentic workflows where careful reasoning and multi-step execution matter, and carries usage-based pricing at the provider's list rate.
VS Code 1.129 ships a dedicated agent host that runs AI sessions in their own process, a new editor panel in the Agents window for reviewing diffs inline, a ! shortcut for running terminal commands from chat, and an experimental modern UI with floating cards.
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash are being retired from all Copilot experiences on July 31. Kimi K2.7 Code, the first open-weight model in Copilot, is now available for Business and Enterprise plans.
VS Code 1.128 ships Copilot Vision as generally available, adds full keyboard navigation for multi-chat Claude agent sessions, lets you start a chat in the Agents window without opening a project first, and brings OS-level keyboard shortcuts so VS Code commands work even when the app isn't focused.
Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K2.7 Code model expanded to Copilot Business and Enterprise plans on July 7, but it's off by default and requires admin action to enable.
GitHub has set July 30, 2026 as the hard shutdown date for GitHub Models. The playground, model catalog, inference API, and BYOK endpoints will all go dark. GitHub is pointing users toward Azure AI Foundry and GitHub Copilot.
GitHub made two GA announcements on July 1: Copilot Vision now works on all plans with no admin action required, and browser tools let agents drive live web apps directly from VS Code.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code reached general availability in GitHub Copilot on July 1, marking the first open-weight model available in the platform's model picker.
VS Code 1.127 ships multi-chat support inside agent sessions, macOS terminal sandboxing, per-site browser permissions, and a hover showing how many AI credits your subagents burned.
Microsoft's 5B-parameter in-house coding model MAI-Code-1-Flash reached general availability for GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise on June 26, with admin policy controls required before users can access it.
Copilot for Jira exits public preview with streaming agent progress updates inside Jira issues, post-session steering, simplified onboarding, and the full feature set built during the preview period since March 2026.
GitHub Desktop 3.6, released today, brings native worktree support for parallel branch work, Copilot-powered commit message generation that reads your repo's custom instructions, and AI-assisted merge conflict resolution.
Released June 24, VS Code 1.126 adds session-level cost tracking for Copilot, multiple concurrent chats per agent session, agentic code feedback tools, and Restricted Mode as the default for new folders.
The tabbed layout previewed at Microsoft Build 2026 is out for all Copilot subscribers. You get Issue and PR tabs for the repo you're in, guided MCP and plugin setup, BYOK support in the Copilot app, and screen reader accessibility.
The June 22 update to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs brings Claude as a selectable agent provider in preview, lets admins publish organization-wide agents, adds message queuing for CLI sessions, and introduces a per-turn AI credits indicator.
Two weeks of VS Code's weekly cadence bring Autopilot enabled by default with a smarter loop-termination model in 1.124, and remote browser proxying through SSH, Edit Mode removal, and a Copilot credits dashboard in 1.125.
Two model changes hit GitHub Copilot on June 18: Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash expanded from VS Code to eight more surfaces, and GitHub announced Opus 4.6 (fast) will be deprecated across all Copilot experiences on June 29.
GitHub moved the Copilot App out of technical preview on June 17, making it generally available for Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise customers. The standalone desktop app for agent-driven development is now production-ready, with Canvases, cloud automations, and per-session model selection included.
Two Copilot CLI updates from this week: a new /settings command that consolidates scattered configuration options into one place, and a /security-review slash command now in public preview that runs a security scan on your code changes from the terminal.
GitHub switched Copilot to usage-based AI Credits billing on June 1. A week in, developers are reporting that agentic workflows eat through monthly allowances in hours. The community backlash thread has nearly 1,000 thumbs-down reactions.
MAI-Code-1-Flash is Microsoft's first coding AI trained entirely in-house, without OpenAI's data or technology. It's rolling out to all Copilot plans now, and its benchmark numbers suggest it was built for token efficiency rather than headline scores.
GitHub shipped the Copilot SDK to general availability on June 2, adding Rust and Java to its launch languages, shipping custom tool support and MCP integration, and opening the SDK to users who don't have a Copilot subscription via bring-your-own-key.
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