GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents

Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances.
InfoQ

GitHub Copilot SDK Lets Developers Integrate Copilot CLI's Engine into Apps

Now available in technical preview on GitHub, the GitHub Copilot SDK lets developers embed the same engine that powers GitHub ...

AI in software dev: Billions in value added, study shows

AI-assisted programming is becoming increasingly prevalent. However, only experienced developers achieve productivity gains.
InfoWorld

Building AI agents with the GitHub Copilot SDK

The GitHub Copilot SDK turns the Copilot CLI into a cross-platform agent host with Model Context Protocol support.

Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code—with big implications for the future of software development jobs

As AI coding tools become more sophisticated, engineers at leading AI companies are stopping writing code altogether ...
InfoWorld

Spec-driven AI coding with GitHub’s Spec Kit

Microsoft and GitHub have made AI assistance a key part of their software development tools. Embedded in the latest Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code releases, GitHub Copilot puts a multifaceted ...
eWeek

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 Comes to Microsoft Foundry, GitHub Copilot

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 arrives in Microsoft Foundry and GitHub Copilot, bringing advanced reasoning, agentic coding, and ...
Ars Technica

A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options

On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model designed to work as part of an autonomous software engineering agent. The model achieves ...