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The July 30 changelog closed the hosted model-catalog and playground service that let developers prototype against multiple LLMs from GitHub directly. If you prototyped against Models endpoints, this is a migration event, not a skim. The surrounding changelog items (Copilot updates for VS Code and Visual Studio, "limit remote control to managed devices") say GitHub is consolidating AI surface area onto Copilot and Azure AI Foundry rather than maintaining a separate playground.
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43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1. Opus 4.8 scored 18.7%. That's not an incremental bump, that's the same benchmark with a different shape of answer. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24 at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, exactly half of Fable 5's $10/$50, while matc...
The sunset notice is short and it doesn't hedge. Code freeze July 29. Repository archived August 10. Core team gone August 31. npm and Docker packages deprecated. Flowise has 55,186 stars and 24,850 forks under Apache-2.0, and the team wrote its own cause of death: developers...
Enterprise-managed MCP allowlists shipped August 6 across the Copilot app, Copilot CLI and VS Code, configured with allowedMcpServers and deniedMcpServers in copilot/managed-settings.json inside the org's .github-private repo. Match by serverUrl with wildcards for remote HTTP/...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
GitHub shipped it July 28 across Pro through Enterprise, reachable from VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse, with text and image inputs and low/medium/high reasoning effort, billed at provider list pricing rather than a fixed mul...
July 9, across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, github.com, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse. Sol is the high-reasoning tier at $5/1M in, $30/1M out, gated to Pro+/Max/Business/Enterprise. Terra is the balanced default at $2.50/$15. Luna is fas...
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