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Release-by-release coverage of the AI creation stack: video, image, music, voice, design and code generation tools.

Release-by-release coverage of the AI creation stack: video, image, music, voice, design and code generation tools.

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Introducing Figma Motion: Your canvas now has a timeline
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Introducing Figma Motion: Your canvas now has a timeline

Connecting Figma and Weave
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Connecting Figma and Weave

Code on the Figma canvas
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Code on the Figma canvas

Config 2026: New materials, new tools and a more expressive canvas
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Config 2026: New materials, new tools and a more expressive canvas

Changes to model selection for Free and Student plans
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Changes to model selection for Free and Student plans

Copilot Free and Student plans will now use Copilot auto model selection as the default and only model selection experience. Auto dynamically selects the best m…

GitHub Copilot app support for BYOK
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GitHub Copilot app support for BYOK

The GitHub Copilot app now supports bring your own key (BYOK), so you can run agent sessions against your own model providers, including OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, M…

Copilot CLI: New terminal interface is generally available
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Copilot CLI: New terminal interface is generally available

The redesigned terminal interface for GitHub Copilot CLI that we previewed at Microsoft Build 2026 is now generally available. You get a tabbed layout for worki…

New features and Claude as agent provider preview in JetBrains IDEs
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New features and Claude as agent provider preview in JetBrains IDEs

This update adds support for organization and enterprise agents from GitHub, lets you queue and steer messages in Copilot CLI sessions, introduces a new agent d…

AI credits consumed per user now in the Copilot usage metrics API
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AI credits consumed per user now in the Copilot usage metrics API

The Copilot usage metrics API now reports how many AI credits each user consumed per day, derived from the same AI credits consumption data used in the usage-ba…

Upcoming deprecation of Opus 4.6 (fast)
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Upcoming deprecation of Opus 4.6 (fast)

We will deprecate Opus 4.6 (fast) across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions), on Ju…

Copilot code review: AGENTS.md support and UI improvements
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Copilot code review: AGENTS.md support and UI improvements

Copilot code review now supports repository-level AGENTS.md files, and it’s easier to request a review from Copilot on draft pull requests with the Reques…

MAI-Code-1-Flash available on more Copilot surfaces
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MAI-Code-1-Flash available on more Copilot surfaces

MAI‑Code‑1‑Flash, Microsoft’s purpose‑built small coding model, is now available across additional GitHub Copilot surfaces. MAI&#8…

Copilot-authored pull requests now included in author searches
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Copilot-authored pull requests now included in author searches

Searching for pull requests using author: now shows pull requests opened by Copilot cloud agent on the user’s behalf. For example, searching with author:@…

Generated release notes credit you for Copilot pull requests
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Generated release notes credit you for Copilot pull requests

When you generate release notes for a new release, the generated notes include a list of pull requests merged since the last release. For more information about…

Copilot individual plan sign-ups are reopening
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Copilot individual plan sign-ups are reopening

We’re reopening sign-ups for GitHub Copilot Student, Pro, Pro+, and Max plans gradually over the next couple of weeks for new subscribers. If you’ve…

Enterprise-managed settings now support bypass permission controls
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Enterprise-managed settings now support bypass permission controls

We’re adding our first governance capability to the enterprise-managed settings configuration. Enterprise administrators can now set disableBypassPermissi…

GitHub Copilot app generally available
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GitHub Copilot app generally available

The GitHub Copilot app is now generally available for macOS, Windows, and Linux. It’s the desktop home for agent-driven development, built natively on Git…

Agent finder for GitHub Copilot now available
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Agent finder for GitHub Copilot now available

GitHub agent finder is now available. Instead of hand-wiring which MCP servers, skills, canvases, agents, and tools each agent should use—and filling your…

Auto mode in Copilot Chat available for all users
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Auto mode in Copilot Chat available for all users

GitHub Copilot auto model selection is now generally available in Copilot Chat on github.com and the GitHub mobile app for all Copilot plans. With auto, Copilot…

Draft mode for V8.1 and new feature previews
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Draft mode for V8.1 and new feature previews

Hi everyone - a few updates today!Draft mode for V8.1Each draft mode generation creates 24 images at a lower resolution and quality.Click "Vary" on im…

Hardware announcement livestream
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Hardware announcement livestream

We'll be unveiling our first secret hardware project tomorrow, Wednesday 6/17. It's ambitious, (physically!) big, and unexpected.There will be a lives…

4 ways we’re using our MCP server at Figma
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4 ways we’re using our MCP server at Figma

Copilot usage metrics now include more of your active users
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Copilot usage metrics now include more of your active users

Copilot usage metrics reports now draw on server-side telemetry in addition to client signals, so more of your active Copilot users show up in reports. Enterpri…

Copilot code review: New configurations and controls
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Copilot code review: New configurations and controls

With new organization runner controls, Copilot content exclusion support, and the removal of the character limit on repository custom instructions, Copilot code…

Midjourney Updates V8.1 Alpha
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Midjourney Updates V8.1 Alpha

Thanks for testing our V8.0 model over the last month! Today we're releasing our next version of V8 - V8.1 What’s new in V8.1?V8.1 has a consis…

Midjourney Updates V8.1 Updates
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Midjourney Updates V8.1 Updates

Hi everyone, we have a few V8.1 related updates today:V8.1 is now available on Discord as well as midjourney.comWe've improved sharpness and image quality …

Run Meta Llama 3.1 405B with an API
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Run Meta Llama 3.1 405B with an API

Llama 3.1 405B: is the most powerful open-source language model from Meta. Learn how to run it in the cloud with one line of code.…

Replicate Intelligence #8
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Replicate Intelligence #8

A top-tier open-ish language model, new safety classifiers, model search API…

How HP powers up design handoff with Dev Mode
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How HP powers up design handoff with Dev Mode

Run FLUX with an API
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Run FLUX with an API

FLUX.1 is a new text-to-image model from Black Forest Labs, the creators of Stable Diffusion, that exceeds the capabilities of previous open-source models.…