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Per TechCrunch, Microsoft is discontinuing those plus Copilot Labs experiments for consumers while merging the consumer Copilot app with Microsoft 365 Copilot. It traces to a July memo from EVP Jacob Andreou arguing the app had to earn "the right to exist" in customers' lives. Same pattern as Claude folding Cowork into Chat and OpenAI absorbing Operator into ChatGPT. The standalone AI feature is being pruned across all three vendors simultaneously.
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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...
An open-weight Chinese frontier model is now a dropdown option in Microsoft's coding product. That happened before anyone finished characterizing what the model does. GitHub's changelog dated August 6 makes Kimi K3 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business an...
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...
Three things happened this month that only make sense together. Agent Plugins 1.0 shipped co-signed by six competitors: AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel and Google (GitHub Changelog). It makes skills-plus-MCP bundles portable across clients. OpenAI's August 11 Codex c...
The merge started this week as the structural precondition, bringing chat, AI coding, the Cowork research tool and new AutoPilot background agents acting across Outlook, Teams and OneDrive into one product. The rollout also retired free Deep Research within four days, which re...
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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