VS Code 1.118 shipped on April 29 with a default-on setting that adds GitHub Copilot as a co-author on git commits. Developers noticed it was running even with AI features disabled, and Microsoft is reverting the default in 1.119.
Copilot CLI 1.0.40 ships client_credentials OAuth for headless MCP authentication, fixes subagents using their own model's tool-search settings, and caps autopilot continuation at 5 by default.
Microsoft's Agent 365 went generally available today, May 1, as part of the new Microsoft 365 E7 tier. It's a central control plane for registering, governing, and auditing AI agents across Microsoft, Copilot, and third-party platforms.
Microsoft's April 2026 update to Visual Studio brings the async cloud agent that VS Code has had for months. You describe a task, the agent runs on GitHub Actions, and you get a pull request without keeping VS open.
GitHub announced April 27 that all Copilot plans will switch from premium request units to GitHub AI Credits on June 1, 2026. Base prices stay the same but usage is calculated on actual token consumption, and developers are not happy about it.
GitHub paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, Student, and Business plans starting April 20, citing unsustainable compute costs from agentic workflows. Usage limits tightened and Opus models restricted to Pro+ only.
A 10,000-developer survey from JetBrains finds Claude Code grew from 3% to 18% workplace adoption between mid-2025 and January 2026, tied with Cursor for second place. A companion behavioral study of 800 developers reveals AI tools change how devs work in ways they don't notice.
GPT-5.5 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot across all major IDEs and platforms, but comes with a 7.5x premium request multiplier that will burn through credits fast. The same update brings inline agent mode to JetBrains IDEs.
GitHub stopped accepting new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans on April 20, citing compute costs driven by agentic workflows. The company also tightened usage limits and removed Opus models from the Pro tier. Community reaction has been harsh.
Security researcher Aonan Guan found that AI agents running in GitHub Actions can be compromised by injecting malicious instructions into PR titles, issue bodies, and comments. All three vendors paid bug bounties but assigned no CVEs and published no advisories.
GitHub added an experimental feature to Copilot CLI called Rubber Duck that routes a Claude coding session through a GPT-5.4 reviewer at key moments. In GitHub's tests, it closed 74.7% of the performance gap between Claude Sonnet and Opus on SWE-Bench Pro.
JetBrains surveyed over 10,000 professional developers in January 2026. GitHub Copilot still leads by install base, but growth has stalled. Claude Code grew from roughly 3% to 18% adoption in eight months and now ties Cursor. Its satisfaction score (91% CSAT, NPS 54) leads the market.
A new 'Fix with Copilot' button on pull request pages lets the Copilot cloud agent resolve merge conflicts, run CI checks, and push — all without touching your local environment.
GitHub shipped a public preview of remote control for Copilot CLI sessions, letting developers monitor, steer, and respond to a running agent from GitHub.com or the mobile app in real time.
GitHub's updated privacy policy takes effect in nine days. Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users' interaction data will be used for model training by default. Here's what's included and how to opt out.
GitHub shipped Autopilot as part of the March VS Code releases, published April 8. It's a fully autonomous mode where Copilot agents approve their own actions, retry on errors, and keep going until the task is done.
JetBrains published the April 2026 results of their AI Pulse survey today — 10,000+ developers across 8 languages. Claude Code and Cursor are tied at 18% workplace adoption. GitHub Copilot leads at 29%. And Claude Code's NPS is 54.
Anthropic's Claude arrived in Microsoft Office through a native add-in, a Copilot model swap, and an M365 data connector. Here's how each integration works and what you actually get.
A holiday weekend roundup of everything that happened in AI coding tools. New models from OpenAI and Anthropic, Codex goes desktop, GPT-4o gets retired, and the money keeps flowing.
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