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Copilot News 09/01/2026 Read AI Rating: High

Claude Fable 5.1 Reaches General Availability in GitHub Copilot

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1, the latest model in its Mythos class, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot across 10 surfaces including VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, and Xcode, aimed at long-horizon autonomous coding and deep codebase research.
ChatGPT News 08/28/2026 Read AI Rating: High

OpenAI to Cut Off Cursor's Access to Its Models Following SpaceX Acquisition

OpenAI notified SpaceX that it will terminate the contract letting Cursor use OpenAI models, effective November 12, 2026, citing past contract violations by Elon Musk's companies and concerns it can't ensure compliance as its models grow more capable.
Copilot News 08/27/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

GitHub Copilot Code Review Drops File Limits, Adds Resolution Reasons

GitHub Copilot's code review feature can now review bot-authored and very large pull requests, and lets users explain why they resolved a review comment via a new Addressed/Won't fix/Incorrect dropdown.
Cursor News 08/27/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

Cursor Cloud Agents Can Now Start Without a Connected Repo

Cursor removed the requirement that Cloud Agents connect to GitHub or another SCM before starting work, letting users prompt from scratch and save the result to an auto-created Origin repo later.
Copilot News 08/26/2026 Read AI Rating: Low

GitHub Copilot Enterprise Settings Add Auto-Update for Plugin Marketplaces

GitHub added an autoUpdate flag to enterprise-managed settings, letting admins opt individual plugin marketplaces into automatic plugin updates across the Copilot app, Copilot CLI, and VS Code.
Copilot News 08/24/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

GitHub Copilot's Agentic Harness Reaches General Availability in JetBrains IDEs

Copilot harness, the agentic framework behind faster feature delivery and better code quality, is now generally available for GitHub Copilot in JetBrains, alongside a public preview of a built-in JetBrains MCP server and in-IDE /review integration.
Copilot News 08/24/2026 Read AI Rating: Medium

GitHub Copilot's Weekly Roundup Brings Slack/Teams Agent Sessions, Customize Tab GA, and Visual Studio Model Controls

GitHub's week-of-August-24 Copilot release notes cover shared agent sessions in Slack and Microsoft Teams, general availability of the Copilot app's Customize tab, a Rust-based CLI performance boost, and new model-pinning and reasoning-effort controls in Visual Studio.