Blank Copilot settings get a default as rollout runs through October 26
GitHub is rolling out Copilot’s feature default policy from October 22 through 26.
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From a Teams bug alert to a pull request: GitHub unifies its app
GitHub’s October 23 update combines repository notifications and Copilot in one Teams app.
Find land like this: Ai2 opens its satellite AI explorer
Ai2 released OlmoEarth v1.3 and a no-login map explorer on October 22.
Give a rough 3D mesh more detail: Hi3D releases refinement weights
The Hi3D team released v1.0 model weights and inference code on October 23.
Switch AI tools, keep your know-how? Agent Skills gets neutral governance
Anthropic announced the donation of Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation on October 22.
GLM Flash comes to Mistral at $0.15 per million input tokens
Mistral added Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-Flash to its API offerings on October 22.
From a quick question to a finished report: Claude unifies its enterprise app
Anthropic made unified chat and Cowork generally available for Claude Enterprise on October 23.
Claude’s newest features, billed by Google: a new deployment option
Claude Models on Google Cloud now has a generally available Anthropic-managed option.
Same GPT-4o name, different shutdown dates: which version does your app use?
October 23, 2026 is the scheduled shutdown date for a group of older OpenAI API models.
Don’t just trust “done”: Microsoft trains agents on database outcomes
Microsoft and Hugging Face presented ThinkingBox training with rewards based on backend outcomes.
Keep your equity: Microsoft and NVIDIA back a physical AI startup lab
Microsoft, NVIDIA and Infineon are backing an equity-free Physical AI Growth Lab.
AI waits, its sandbox pauses: Google announces Agent Compute Engine
Google announced Agent Compute Engine, with a virtual execution environment for each agent.
