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The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI? All of this is playing out as SpaceX charges toward what could be one of the largest IPOs in American history, with a whole gen…

Learn how one Hubber used GitHub Copilot CLI to build an extension that turns any codebase into a unique, roguelike dungeon. The post Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Israel Q1 2026 GDP contracts 3.3% as Iran war weighs on economy

In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI.…

There are two upcoming image migrations customers should be aware of, and GitHub is transitioning to owning the Arm64 images for hosted runners. Arm64 runner images now maintained by GitHub… The post GitHub Actions: Upcoming image migrations appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the…

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide.…

User feedback led us to clean up outdated mitigations. See why observability and lifecycle management are critical for defense systems. The post When protections outlive their purpose: A lesson on managing defense systems at scale appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn about the experimental general-purpose accessibility agent that GitHub is piloting. The post Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

We're updating our bug bounty program standards to prioritize quality submissions, clarify shared responsibility boundaries, and evolve how we reward low-risk findings.…

Israel Q1 GDP shrinks 3.3% annualised as Iran war weighs

Youth safety requirements are moving down the tech stack to operating systems and app stores—raising new questions for open source developers. The post Why age assurance laws matter for developers appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Researchers share in an interview how they used GitHub data to predict GDP, inequality, and emissions in ways that traditional economic data misses, along with our Q4 2025 data release.…

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and takin…

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude C…

Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems — trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest…

“I’ve got one hand on the keyboard, one hand down below,” an artist who role-plays with their chatbot tells WIRED. But some asexual advocates aren’t thrilled about the association.

Osaurus combines local and cloud AI models in a Mac app that keeps users’ memory, files, and tools on their own hardware.

Meta employees in the US and UK are organizing against corporate software that tracks workers’ keystrokes and mouse activity.

Roguelikes don’t die. They fork, mutate, get argued over, rewritten, abandoned, and revived again. Sometimes all at once. The post Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them) appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

AI automates triage for accessibility feedback, allowing us to focus on fixing barriers—turning a chaotic backlog into continuous, rapid resolutions. The post Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen — it takes notes. For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic.…

OpenAI is so frustrated with Apple over a ChatGPT integration that failed to deliver the subscribers and prominence it expected that the company is now actively exploring legal action against the iPhone maker.

The GitHub Copilot app is now in technical preview. It’s a GitHub-native desktop experience to start agentic development from the work in front of you, keep it isolated, steer it… The post GitHub Copilot app is now available in technical preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant. The post From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

The company pivoted to being a data provider in 2023 and now supplies datasets of images, videos, design assets, and gaming and 3D content to AI labs.

When generative AI first moved from research labs into real-world business applications, enterprises made a tacit bargain: “Capability now, control later.” Feed your proprietary data into third-party AI models, and you will get powerful results.…

Copilot cloud agent now supports Copilot auto model selection. When you select Auto in the model picker, Copilot intelligently selects the best available model based on system health and model… The post Copilot cloud agent supports auto model selection appeared first on The GitHu…

When Jennifer got a job doing research for a nonprofit in 2023, she ran her new professional headshot through a facial recognition program. She wanted to see if the tech would pull up the porn videos she’d made more than 10 years before, when she was in her early 20s.…

We’re filling an API gap for GitHub App developers based on community feedback. Enterprise Installation API We’ve added a new API that lets a GitHub App find out if it’s… The post New enterprise installation API now in public preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

A Redditor recently wrote that he was “desperate for help”: for about a month, he said, his phone had been inundated by calls from “strangers” who were “looking for a lawyer, a product designer, a locksmith.” Callers were apparently misdirected by Google’s generative AI.…

Starting June 1, our lineup of individual plans will update based on your feedback. The post GitHub Copilot individual plans: Introducing flex allotments in Pro and Pro+, and a new Max plan appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

In finance departments that have long been defined by precision and control, AI has arrived less as a neatly managed upgrade than as a quiet insurgency. Employees are already using it while leadership races to impose structure, governance, and strategy after the fact.…

Here's how we made the search experience better, faster, and more resilient for GHES customers. The post How we rebuilt the search architecture for high availability in GitHub Enterprise Server appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

South Korea says it will pursue all options to avoid Samsung strike

We have deprecated Grok Code Fast 1 across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask and agent modes, and code completions) today, May 15, 2026. Model Deprecation… The post Grok Code Fast 1 deprecated appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

GitHub Projects now includes three built-in timestamp fields: Created, Updated, and Closed. You can add them to any project view to sort and filter work based on when it was… The post Timestamp fields in GitHub Projects appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

In a dimly lit bedroom, a frightened young woman is thrown onto a bed by a tall, muscular man. He grabs her hand, and flame-like vines crawl across her body, fusing with her flesh. She levitates, then drops. A dragon-shaped tattoo appears across her chest.…

Today on Uncanny Valley, we discuss how Donald Trump’s visit to China could influence conversations between world leaders at a moment when the economic and foreign policy stakes couldn’t be higher.

The Rivian Assistant is available for both Gen1 and Gen2 hardware.

Israeli strikes kill four people in Gaza, medics say

ArXiv is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers.

A federal jury is now deciding whether Elon Musk will win his lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman—but the trial has made everyone look bad.

More than 50 employees have reportedly left Elon Musk’s newly merged SpaceXAI since February, raising questions about burnout, leadership changes, talent poaching, and whether liquidity events weakened retention incentives.

The plaintiffs and defense have rested their cases, as well as their rear ends.

I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here's what I learned about working better with coding agents. The post Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Alfred Wahlforss was running out of options. His startup, Listen Labs, needed to hire over 100 engineers, but competing against Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million offers seemed impossible.…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants us to know it's taking this very seriously.

A year ago, it looked like this day would never happen for Cerebras.

Financial services companies have unique needs when it comes to business AI. They operate in one of the most highly regulated sectors while responding to external events that are updated by the second.…

Watch fans spent a week falling in love with colorful Royal Oak wristwatches that didn’t exist—then the real thing arrived. Now, fantasy is becoming a manufacturing opportunity.

The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true.

Next week, Meta is cutting about 10 percent of its staff. WIRED spoke with more than a dozen current and former employees about what it's like inside a company where “everyone is unhappy.”

"The conversation is sort of happening in Silicon Valley around one thing, and a totally different conversation is happening among consumers," Campbell Brown said at StrictlyVC.

This update brings the Copilot CLI agent into JetBrains IDEs, along with a unified sessions view that shows live status for running and queued sessions.…

Learn how to find opportunities to contribute to the open source community. The post GitHub for Beginners: Getting started with OSS contributions appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how Github uses eBPF to detect and prevent circular dependencies in its deployment tooling. The post How GitHub uses eBPF to improve deployment safety appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Learn how GitHub built an accessible, multi-terminal-safe ASCII animation for the Copilot CLI using custom tooling, ANSI color roles, and advanced terminal engineering.…

GitHub is introducing post-quantum secure key exchange methods for SSH access to better protect Git data in transit. The post Post-quantum security for SSH access on GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Green Dot stock surges 73% after InvestingPro Fair Value alert

Lake Tahoe, Silicon Valley's favorite vacation spot, is about to get hit with higher energy prices as AI drives demand for electricity.

OpenAI is once again reorganizing its executive ranks as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex into one core product experience.

Once users connect their accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments.

AI video-generation startup Runway is betting that video generation is the path to world models. And that being an AI outsider is an advantage, not a liability.

The Thinking Machines Lab founder and former CTO of OpenAI tells WIRED she isn’t interested in automating people out of jobs. Instead, she’s building AI that can collaborate.

In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: April 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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Despite years of digitization, organizations capture less than one-third of the value expected from digital investments, according to McKinsey research.…

In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny.…

Our best practices for quickly identifying, resolving, and preventing issues at scale. The post How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Trump-backed faith event features conservative Christians as critics decry blurring of church-state lines

Richard Socher's new $650 million startup wants to build an AI that can research and improve itself indefinitely — and he insists it will actually ship products.

A new open source gadget called Clawdmeter turns Claude Code usage stats into a tiny desktop dashboard for AI coding power users.

This is Cisco's latest layoff in recent years, while the company's chief executive touts record revenue and growth.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here.…

The path to better performance is often found in simplicity. The post The uphill climb of making diff lines performant appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.

As announced in April 2026, GitHub is rolling out a new token format for GitHub App installation tokens.…

Copilot Memory now supports user-level preferences in early access for Copilot Pro and Copilot Pro+ users.…

The Copilot usage metrics API now exposes a new user-teams report that maps each Copilot-licensed user to the teams they belong to.…

Crosby is building Synthetic, a fully autonomous AI bookkeeping service for other startups.

Can AI save us from the AI industry’s endless thirst for water? Outlook not so good.

These connected companions could disrupt everything from make-believe to bedtime stories. No wonder some lawmakers want them banned.

Brazil’s Lula aims to develop relationship with Trump, Washington Post reports

Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.

One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.

Judge orders Apple to give Musk internal messages discussing secretive ChatGPT deal.

"We have no grand plan," says Anthropic's Cat Wu—but that's by design.

Here's what the biggest tech court case of the year is all about.

Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.

Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.

Xi meeting may force Trump to pivot on chip restrictions and Taiwan.

"Very painful": Altman relives his Muskian reaction to losing control over OpenAI.

But training on "synthetic stories" that model good AI behavior can help.

The plan aims to speed up AI compute deployment while compensating residents.

Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show.

Google has revealed its vision for the AI laptop of tomorrow.

Workers are using an internal AI tool to automate non-essential tasks.

Palestinian leader’s son wins role in Abbas’ party, official says

how Fair Value models flagged Biglari as overvalued before 42% drop

The vibes around the current AI boom aren't great, even in the tech industry.

“This is a public trust and transparency issue.”

The update gives users enhanced flexibility over how they can manage their workflows.

Old "honor code" systems are under strain.

Google has big plans for Android in 2026, and most of it is AI.