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33 articles covering "GitHub Copilot"
GitHub put computer use into public preview in Copilot CLI and the Copilot app on macOS and Windows; it is off by default and asks approval before controlling an app.
Visual Studio Code 1.140, released September 30, adds a Copilot harness on an agent host process, multi-folder sessions, remote delegation tools, HydraFusion model orchestration and a worktree symlink setting.
GitHub added an opt-in, OS-level sandbox to the Copilot desktop app that limits agent file, network, and credential access, failing closed if unsupported.
Claude Opus 5.5 becomes Claude Code's default model and lands in GitHub Copilot the same day, at roughly 40% lower cost than Opus 5.
Visual Studio Code 1.139 extends Dev Container agent sessions to remote hosts and speeds up large agent session lists by up to 12x, Microsoft says.
GitHub says it rewrote the Copilot agent runtime into more than 800,000 lines of Rust using its own Copilot coding agents, at a roughly $120,000 token cost.
Anthropic's new coding-focused Claude Fable 5.1 became selectable in GitHub Copilot the day it launched, but the model requires data retention by default and stays off until administrators enable it.
GitHub Copilot's automated code review can now submit approvals that count toward merge requirements, but the capability ships disabled by default and requires an administrator to opt in at the enterprise, organization, or repository level.
GitHub is deprecating six Copilot AI models and reenabling Business and Enterprise sign-ups for credit-card and PayPal payers, both effective September 1, 2026.
Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash posts sharp coding and web-dev benchmark gains at half its predecessor's launch price, and lands in GitHub Copilot immediately.
Grok 4.6 is now available in GitHub Copilot for agentic coding, days after SpaceXAI positioned it near GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
Microsoft's updated small-tier coding model rolls out in GitHub Copilot with native vision support, a 73% lower list price, and double-digit gains on coding benchmarks.