Github Copilot
The latest Github Copilot coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
GitHub Copilot Metrics Overhaul Delivers CLI Telemetry and Credit Fixes
A long-awaited update to GitHub’s Copilot usage metrics API landed on July 2, 2026, plugging critical reporting holes that have frustrated enterprise and organization administrators since the AI...
GitHub Copilot debuts Kimi K2.7 open-weight model in IDE picker for Pro users
As of July 1, 2026, GitHub has made the Kimi K2.7 Code model generally available in GitHub Copilot. The open-weight coding model, first announced in preview earlier this year, now appears in...
New GitHub Copilot Metric Answers: Are AI-Heavy Devs Getting More Code Merged?
GitHub pushed a quiet but significant update to its Copilot usage metrics API on June 26, 2026, giving enterprise and organization admins the ability to see the total number of pull requests merged...
Microsoft Rolls Out MAI-Code-1-Flash to GitHub Copilot: Lightning-Fast AI Coding with Enterprise Policy Controls
Microsoft has released MAI-Code-1-Flash into general availability for GitHub Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers, effective June 26, 2026. The new coding model promises significantly...
GitHub Copilot's Agentic Harness Outperforms Claude Code and Codex CLI on Token Efficiency, Benchmark Shows
GitHub released a benchmark report on June 25, 2026, that claims its Copilot agentic harness can resolve coding tasks on par with Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI, while burning...
GitHub Cuts Copilot Code Review Pricing by 20%, Introduces Org‑Wide Defaults and Streamlined Tooling
GitHub has cut the price of Copilot code review by 20 percent and given team leads new governance controls over how AI‑assisted pull‑request reviews behave across their organizations. The update,...
GitHub Kills Model Picker for Copilot Free and Student Users, Enforces Automatic AI Model Selection
GitHub abruptly removed the manual model picker from its Copilot Free and Student plans on June 24, 2026, forcing all users on those tiers to rely exclusively on the AI-driven Copilot Auto for model...
GitHub Copilot Bring-Your-Own-Key Lands: Tap OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, and Local Models Per Session
On June 23, 2026, GitHub stunned the developer world by introducing bring-your-own-key (BYOK) support to the GitHub Copilot app, allowing programmers to route agent sessions through their own...
GitHub Ships Redesigned Copilot CLI with Agent Workbench and Tabbed UI for Windows
On June 23, 2026, GitHub made the redesigned GitHub Copilot CLI terminal interface generally available, bringing a tabbed layout and an AI-powered agent workbench to millions of developers—with...
GitHub Copilot Free Users Lose Manual Model Choice: Auto-Routing Mandatory From June 24, 2026
GitHub Copilot’s free ride just hit a speed bump—if you’re on the Free or Student plan, you’ll soon lose the ability to manually select which AI model powers your coding assistant. The...
Inside GitHub’s Best Month Ever: How Usage-Based Pricing Unleashed a Copilot Boom
GitHub’s internal message was unambiguous: June 2026 was the platform’s single best month in its history, driven by an explosive surge in Copilot adoption that executives directly attribute to...
Microsoft Arms GitHub Copilot with Homegrown MAI-Code-1-Flash, Escalates AI Coding War Against Claude
Microsoft chose the Build 2026 stage in early June to fire a direct shot at Anthropic’s Claude Code, unveiling MAI-Code-1-Flash — a 5-billion-parameter in-house coding model designed from the...