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GitHub Copilot in the VS Code editor rolls out scheduled agent tasks in preview

The automations feature in GitHub Copilot in the VS Code editor allows running agent tasks hourly, daily, weekly, or on demand. A task definition can be created from a template or using a custom prompt. The feature is available in preview.

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GitHub has released a public preview of the dynamic workflows feature for controlling agents via code

The dynamic workflows feature is available in public preview in Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot app, and GitHub Copilot SDK on all GitHub Copilot plans. It allows defining sequential and concurrent steps and agent involvement in code.

Olmo-core 3 introduces redesigned open infrastructure for training large MoE models

Olmo-core 3 has been released, providing infrastructure that keeps experts in GPU memory and routes data to them when training MoE models. According to the authors, it achieved approximately 2.7 times the throughput of the previous implementation in a preliminary test on eight NVIDIA B300 GPUs.

GitHub extends the HydraFusion research preview to Visual Studio Code and the GitHub Copilot app

The HydraFusion research preview is now available in Visual Studio Code and the GitHub Copilot app. It coordinates multiple models and supports the Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans. Company access requires an admin to enable preview features.

OpenAI simplifies API usage tiers from five to three

Starting October 5, OpenAI is introducing three API usage tiers instead of the previous five: Build, Launch, and Grow. Organizations are moved to a higher tier automatically based on the total volume of credits purchased.

NVIDIA releases open foundation model Kumo Tabular for tabular prediction without training

NVIDIA has released the open foundation model Kumo Tabular (28–215M parameters) for classification and regression on tabular data. According to the company, the model predicts without training, tuning, or feature engineering, and leads on the TabArena, BeyondArena, TALENT, and ScoringBench benchmarks.

OpenAI introduces Ultrafast mode for the GPT-6 Astra model in the Responses API

OpenAI has added a new "ultrafast" service tier to the Responses API for the GPT-6 Astra model, which reduces latency between generated output tokens. The feature does not support EU or other regional data residency.

Grok 4.7 from xAI available on Amazon Bedrock

The company xAI has introduced Grok 4.7 on Amazon Bedrock: a context window of 500 000 tokens and four reasoning effort levels. According to Artificial Analysis, performance on agentic tasks and knowledge work improves compared with Grok 4.6, but at roughly twice the token consumption.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 model available on Amazon Bedrock

The Claude Sonnet 5.5 model is available on Amazon Bedrock and in Claude Platform on AWS – according to AWS, a cheaper and faster option for well-defined tasks such as bug fixes, SQL generation, or UI testing.

Release of open-source agentic models Holo4 for GUI, code, and API automation

The new family of open-source agentic models Holo4 (27B dense, 35B-A3B MoE) handles GUI control, writing and running code, MCP, and API all in one model. On OSWorld 2.0, Holo4-27B achieves 61.7% compared to 81.8% for the Opus 5.5 model, but at significantly lower cost.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 model is available via API and cloud platforms

The Claude Sonnet 5.5 model has been released with the identifier claude-sonnet-5-5. It is available via the Claude API as well as in the offerings of Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry.

GitHub Copilot gets a validator for checking enterprise managed settings

GitHub has added an in-product validator to GitHub Copilot that checks enterprise managed settings configuration files – it detects malformed JSON, unsupported settings, and invalid team mappings.

GitHub Copilot: usage metrics API now tracks pull request review phases

The GitHub Copilot usage metrics API has a new field, pull_request_review_times, which shows the median and 90th percentile duration of three pull request review phases – for enterprises and organizations with the metrics policy enabled.

GitHub Copilot: agentic autofix now uses Copilot Memory when fixing security bugs

Agentic autofix in GitHub Copilot now, according to GitHub, uses Copilot Memory – it stores security alert fix patterns and shares them with other Copilot features. Both features are in public preview.

GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams: public preview of an improved integration

GitHub has launched a public preview update to GitHub Copilot for Slack and Microsoft Teams with improved use of conversation context, model switching, and linking to GitHub issues. Available for Business and Enterprise plans, gradual rollout.

OpenAI fixed a bug in image encoding in the GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models

OpenAI has fixed a bug in image encoding in the GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models that was degrading visual input understanding in both the API and the Codex product. The company recommends re-verifying affected workflows.

Compliance API for the Claude for Microsoft 365 product reaches full availability

Compliance API local session endpoints for Claude for Microsoft 365 (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook) have moved from beta to full availability (GA), Anthropic announced.

Anthropic reinstates billing for refused requests in the Claude API for selected safety categories

Anthropic is once again billing for refused requests in the Claude API in the bio, frontier_llm, and reasoning_extraction categories when the refusal occurs before any output – it is billed at the same rate as a regular request.

Compliance API in the Claude product has stopped returning file and document names in the Activity Feed

The Compliance API in the Claude product has stopped returning file names, project document names, and artifact titles in the Activity Feed, including retroactively. A name can now only be looked up by ID via a Compliance Access Key with the read:compliance_user_data permission.

Google's Gemini product expands Connected Apps with 14 new partner apps

Google has launched an expansion of Connected Apps in the Gemini product with 14 new partner apps (Airtable, Linear, Adobe, Webflow, Peloton, among others) for productivity, creativity, and lifestyle, controllable via @ mention in chat.

GitHub Copilot app adds local sandboxing in public preview

The GitHub Copilot app offers optional local sandboxing in public preview, which restricts the agent's access to files, network, and credentials. It is disabled by default and configured per project.

GitHub Copilot for JetBrains 1.18.0 adds AI-assisted tool approvals and planning mode for the Codex agent

GitHub has released version 1.18.0 of the GitHub Copilot plugin for JetBrains IDEs with automatic approval of low-risk agent actions, the ability to rewrite an earlier message, organizational skills/instructions, and planning mode in the Codex agent.

OpenAI makes GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna available on the Amazon Bedrock platform

GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI are now generally available on the Amazon Bedrock platform at lower prices than GPT-5.6; according to OpenAI, GPT-6 Sol makes about half as many factual errors as GPT-5.6 Sol.

Claude Opus 5.5 available on Amazon Bedrock with lower costs per task

Anthropic, together with AWS, has made Claude Opus 5.5 available on Amazon Bedrock – according to the company, it is more efficient and cheaper per task than Claude Opus 5, with adaptive thinking and stricter safety classifiers.