Microsoft Copilot & AI

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Microsoft

Microsoft Open Sources code-testing-generator: a Polyglot Unit-Test Agent That Hits 92.1% Task Completion Versus 78.9% for Stock Copilot

Microsoft has open sourced code-testing-generator, a polyglot unit-test agent shipping in the MIT-licensed dotnet/skills repository. It reads a repository before writing anything — detecting the language, test framework, existing conventions, and the real build and test commands — then plans, writes, runs and validates the tests it produces. On Microsoft's internal 152-task benchmark it completed 140 tasks against 120 for stock GitHub Copilot on the same model, with the gain concentrated almost ...

8/7/2026

Anthropic

7/27/2026

The harness is all you need (mostly)

A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool. The post The harness is all you need (mostly) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Microsoft

8/10/2026

Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java

Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more. The post Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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OpenAI

Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race

Cursor began rolling out Origin, its own code hosting platform, to paid users on Monday morning. Roughly three and a half hours later, GitHub's status page lit up with what became a six-hour-and-forty-two-minute global degradation — error rates near 20% across pull requests, issues and the API, and near 50% on archive and raw file downloads, according to GitHub's incident log. Enterprise single sign-on went down with it: SAML, OIDC, SCIM provisioning and Team Sync all failed. So did Copilot. The...

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Microsoft

8/13/2026

Microsoft’s Clippy-like Mico character is no longer the face of Copilot

Microsoft's AI assistant, Copilot, is saying goodbye to its animated character, Mico. Introduced just last October to give the chatbot a unique 'identity,' Mico is now moving to Microsoft's Learn Live educational platform, where it's expected to have more interactive opportunities. This move highlights Microsoft's ongoing evolution in how it approaches virtual helpers and AI interfaces.

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Microsoft

7/30/2026

Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app

Learn how I modernized an old codebase of mine using stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app. The post Stacked sessions and pull requests in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Microsoft

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work

If you’re juggling multiple Copilot sessions, use the My work pane to track what's in flight, what's done, and what's next. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Managing your work appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Microsoft

8/12/2026

Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app

Learn how to write your first prompt in the GitHub Copilot app, choose the right context and model, and start your first task with confidence. The post Write your first prompt with the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Microsoft

8/6/2026

A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app

Go beyond chat in the GitHub Copilot app with these slash commands. They'll help you plan, collaborate, automate, and customize your dev workflow. The post A guide to slash commands in the GitHub Copilot app appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Microsoft

8/4/2026

How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows

Learn how to build tools to simplify how you work—without writing a single line of code. The post How the GitHub legal team used Copilot CLI to streamline their workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Microsoft

7/27/2026

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started

New to the GitHub Copilot app? Learn how to start projects, work with AI agents, explore canvases, and streamline your development workflow. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

OpenAI

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat

Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat. The Salesforce-owned messaging platform today announced Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents — including Anthropic's Claude Code, Cognition's Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel's agent — directly into dedicated Slack channels where entire teams can watch, steer, review, and ship software together. Slack Code is available on any Slack plan at launch, though customers need their own access to the partner ag...