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Cursor, GitLab, and Zed agree that GitHub is broken but propose different fixes. Cursor wants a new API, GitLab pushes for federation, and Zed advocates for a Git-based protocol. The debate centers on how to rebuild developer collaboration tools without relying on GitHub's platform.

GitHub introduced the Copilot app, a desktop control center for agent-native development in technical preview for Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise users. The app uses git worktrees to isolate each agent session, enabling parallel workflows without interference. A "My Work" view shows sessions, issues, pull requests, and background automations across connected repositories.

GitHub closed two HackerOne reports from Deep Specter Research as ineligible, despite the Shai-Hulud supply-chain worm exploiting those design flaws. The worm has infected over 3,000 repositories and 200 developer accounts. Deep Specter found 516 malicious packages live across npm, PyPI, and RubyGems.

GitHub is using Amazon Web Services to supplement cloud capacity as AI-driven demand surges. The company expects total commits to reach 14 billion in 2026, up from 1 billion in 2025. Microsoft confirmed a multi-cloud strategy for GitHub while maintaining its commitment to Azure.

Microsoft is adding AWS capacity to GitHub after AI-driven growth strained infrastructure and triggered a series of reliability issues. The move aims to address performance problems caused by surging demand for AI-powered features on the platform.

Microsoft is using AWS infrastructure to handle a capacity crunch for GitHub's AI features. The move highlights the extreme demand for AI compute resources. GitHub's Copilot and other AI tools require significant cloud capacity that Microsoft's own data centers cannot currently fully supply.

GitHub Copilot CLI slash commands let users switch models, check token usage, and resume past sessions from the terminal. Typing / shows all supported commands. /model lists available models with details. /context displays remaining tokens. /compact summarizes the conversation to free space.

GitHub published the Multilingual Repositories Dataset, a metadata dataset covering over 80 million classification rows across more than 40 million public repositories. The dataset helps researchers and developers find repositories with non-English natural-language content. Portuguese tops non-English READMEs with over 3 million repositories. Korean is the most common non-English language in issue text.

The AMD R600 Gallium3D driver received 59 commits to Mesa 26.2, with code restructuring and cleaning assisted by GitHub Copilot. Developer Gert Wollny used the AI tool to improve the driver covering Radeon HD 2000 through HD 6000 series cards, long after AMD stopped upstream work.