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  • Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era

    2026-04-07 · Article · Anthropic

    Anthropic, AWS, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks join forces to use Claude Mythos Preview for defensive cybersecurity at scale.

  • Speeding up agentic workflows with WebSockets in the Responses API

    2026-04-22 · Article · OpenAI

    OpenAI adds WebSocket support to the Responses API, cutting end-to-end latency for tool-heavy agentic workflows and simplifying long-running session handling.

  • Introducing workspace agents in ChatGPT

    2026-04-22 · Article · OpenAI

    OpenAI launches workspace agents in ChatGPT Business and Enterprise, letting teams deploy persistent agents that operate across connected apps, files, and tools with admin-managed permissions.

  • Scaling Codex to enterprises worldwide

    2026-04-21 · Article · OpenAI

    OpenAI introduces Codex Transformation Partners, a global program to help large enterprises adopt Codex at scale alongside hands-on rollout support and integration tooling.

  • Changes to GitHub Copilot plans for individuals

    2026-04-20 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    GitHub announces structural changes to the Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ tiers for individual users, including updates to premium-request quotas and model availability.

  • Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs

    2026-04-17 · Article · Anthropic

    Claude Design is a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work — designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.

  • Codex for (almost) everything

    2026-04-16 · Article · OpenAI

    OpenAI expands Codex's reach across new surfaces and workflows, positioning it as the default agentic coding interface for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and API users.

  • Introducing Claude Opus 4.7

    2026-04-16 · Article · Anthropic

    Anthropic's latest Opus model brings stronger performance across coding, agents, vision, and multi-step tasks, with greater thoroughness and consistency on the work that matters most.

  • Accelerating the cyber defense ecosystem that protects us all

    2026-04-16 · Article · OpenAI

    OpenAI outlines its strategy and partnerships for AI-powered cybersecurity defense — a counterpart announcement to Anthropic's Project Glasswing.

  • Remote control CLI sessions on web and mobile in public preview

    2026-04-13 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    Public preview lets you remotely view, steer, and respond to active Copilot CLI sessions from github.com or GitHub Mobile, bringing parity with the cloud-agent experience.

  • Fix merge conflicts in three clicks with Copilot cloud agent

    2026-04-13 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    Copilot cloud agent can now detect, analyze, and resolve merge conflicts in pull requests with a three-click flow, drafting a merge commit you can review before accepting.

  • Pausing new GitHub Copilot Pro trials

    2026-04-10 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    GitHub is pausing new Copilot Pro free trials while the team reworks the individual plan structure, ahead of broader changes to Copilot for individuals.

  • Ask Copilot in security assessments now available

    2026-04-09 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    Organization admins and security managers can now jump into a Copilot experience directly from secret risk assessment or Code Security risk assessment results to get contextual explanations and guided next steps.

  • Visual Studio Code 1.115

    2026-04-08 · Article · VS Code Team

    VS Code's April 2026 release introduces the VS Code Agents companion app preview, enhanced integrated browser capabilities for agents, and new terminal tools for background command interaction.

  • GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code: March Releases

    2026-04-08 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    The combined March/April Copilot changelog covers releases v1.111 through v1.115, including Autopilot for fully autonomous agent sessions, integrated browser debugging, image and video support in chat, and a new unified customizations editor.

  • GitHub Mobile: Research and code with Copilot cloud agent anywhere

    2026-04-08 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    Copilot cloud agent now works beyond pull-request workflows on GitHub Mobile, letting you research codebases, generate implementation plans, and iterate on branches from your phone.

  • Copilot-reviewed pull request merge metrics now in the usage metrics API

    2026-04-08 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    The Copilot usage metrics API now includes two new metrics tracking Copilot code review activity: total merged PRs reviewed by Copilot and their median time to merge.

  • The next phase of enterprise AI

    2026-04-08 · Article · OpenAI

    OpenAI CRO Denise Dresser outlines the company's enterprise strategy: enterprise now exceeds 40% of revenue, Codex has 3M weekly users, and APIs process 15B tokens per minute.

  • Dependabot alerts are now assignable to AI agents for remediation

    2026-04-07 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    You can now assign Dependabot security alerts directly to Copilot, Claude, or Codex. Each agent analyzes the vulnerability and opens a draft PR with a proposed fix.

  • Copilot CLI now supports BYOK and local models

    2026-04-07 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    GitHub Copilot CLI can now connect to any OpenAI-compatible provider or run fully local models like Ollama and vLLM, enabling air-gapped development workflows.

  • Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute

    2026-04-06 · Article · Anthropic

    Anthropic signs a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity coming online in 2027, as run-rate revenue surpasses $30 billion.

  • Organization firewall settings for Copilot cloud agent

    2026-04-03 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    Organization admins can now manage the Copilot cloud agent firewall across all repositories, controlling internet access and protecting against prompt injection and data exfiltration at scale.

  • GPT-5.1 Codex, GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, and GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini deprecated

    2026-04-03 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    GitHub has officially deprecated the GPT-5.1 Codex family of models from Copilot, completing the transition to GPT-5.4 across all coding agent surfaces.

  • Organization runner controls for Copilot cloud agent

    2026-04-03 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    Organization admins can now set default runners and lock runner settings across all repositories for Copilot cloud agent, removing the need for per-repo copilot-setup-steps.yml configuration.

  • Copilot cloud agent signs its commits

    2026-04-03 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    Copilot cloud agent now signs every commit it makes, appearing as Verified on GitHub. This also enables the agent to work in repositories with "Require signed commits" branch protection enabled.

  • Copilot organization custom instructions are generally available

    2026-04-02 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    Copilot Business and Enterprise admins can now set default custom instructions that guide Copilot's behavior across all repositories in their organization, including Chat, code review, and cloud agent.

  • Copilot SDK in public preview

    2026-04-02 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    The GitHub Copilot SDK ships in five languages, exposing the same agentic runtime that powers Copilot cloud agent and Copilot CLI so teams can embed Copilot's capabilities directly into their own applications.

  • Codex now offers pay-as-you-go pricing for teams

    2026-04-02 · Article · OpenAI

    OpenAI introduces Codex-only seats with pay-as-you-go pricing for ChatGPT Business and Enterprise workspaces, plus lowers the annual Business seat price from $25 to $20.

  • Research, plan, and code with Copilot cloud agent

    2026-04-01 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    Copilot cloud agent is no longer limited to pull-request workflows. It can now work on branches without creating PRs, generate implementation plans for review, and conduct deep research sessions grounded in your repository context.

  • From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment

    2026-03-11 · Article · Bo Xu

    OpenAI details the shell tool, hosted containers, skills, compaction, and network controls it added to the Responses API so agents can run longer, safer workflows.

  • Explore a repository using Copilot on the web

    2026-03-11 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    GitHub added a file explorer directly to Copilot on the web, letting you inspect repository structure, preview files, and attach them as chat references in context.

  • Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection

    2026-03-11 · Article · Thomas Shadwell

    OpenAI argues that prompt injection increasingly behaves like social engineering and says secure agents need constrained actions, confirmation gates, and safer outbound behavior.

  • Visual Studio Code 1.111

    2026-03-09 · Article · VS Code Team

    VS Code's March 2026 release (1.111) added session-level permissions for agent autonomy, an Autopilot preview, agent-scoped hooks, and debug event snapshots for troubleshooting.

  • Introducing GPT-5.4

    2026-03-05 · Article · OpenAI

    OpenAI says GPT-5.4 combines GPT-5.3-Codex coding ability with stronger tool use, computer use, and professional-task performance across ChatGPT, the API, and Codex.

  • Copilot code review now runs on an agentic architecture

    2026-03-05 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    GitHub moved Copilot code review onto an agentic tool-calling architecture so reviews can gather repository context on demand and produce fewer, higher-signal comments.

  • GPT-5.4 is generally available in GitHub Copilot

    2026-03-05 · Article · GitHub Changelog

    GitHub rolled GPT-5.4 into Copilot across IDEs, github.com, mobile, CLI, and the coding agent, with plan-level controls for business and enterprise admins.

  • Claude Code in an Hour: A Developer's Intro

    2026-03-04 · Video · Anthropic

    Anthropic's March 2026 recorded session is a practical onboarding walkthrough for Claude Code, covering setup, persistent project context, prompting structure, and an end-to-end live task demo.

  • Building Products on Claude Opus 4.6 — A Customer Success Story with Shortcut and Hex

    2026-02-19 · Video · Anthropic

    Anthropic's recorded February 2026 event focuses on how Shortcut and Hex are using Claude Opus 4.6 in production, including live demos, prompting strategy, and lessons learned.

  • Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6

    2026-02-17 · Article · Anthropic

    Anthropic positions Sonnet 4.6 as a full-stack upgrade for coding, computer use, long-context work, and agent planning, while keeping Sonnet pricing and making it the new default across Claude surfaces.

  • Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes

    2026-02-05 · Article · Nicholas Carlini

    Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini documents what 16 parallel Claude agents could achieve in a shared codebase, and where the approach still breaks down.

  • Shipping with Codex

    2025-10-06 · Video · OpenAI

    OpenAI's DevDay session focuses on how its own engineers are using Codex across local and cloud workflows to write, refactor, and merge code faster.

  • Demo: End-to-End Agentic Development with GitHub Copilot

    2025-09-15 · Video · GitHub

    GitHub demonstrates a complete end-to-end development workflow using Copilot's agentic capabilities, from planning through implementation and testing.

  • Prompting for Agents | Code w/ Claude

    2025-08-15 · Video · Anthropic

    Anthropic demonstrates best practices for prompting AI coding agents, including how to structure instructions and context for Claude to handle complex multi-step development tasks.

  • Vibe Coding in Prod | Code w/ Claude

    2025-08-12 · Video · Anthropic

    Anthropic showcases practical production coding workflows with Claude, covering real-world scenarios from feature development to debugging in production codebases.

  • Essential AI Prompts for Developers

    2025-04-03 · Video · Visual Studio Code

    Learn the most effective prompting techniques for AI coding assistants. Covers prompt patterns, context management, and strategies for getting better code suggestions.

  • VS Code Agent Mode Just Changed Everything

    2025-04-01 · Video · Visual Studio Code

    An in-depth walkthrough of VS Code's agent mode capabilities, demonstrating how AI-powered agents can handle complex development tasks directly within the editor.