Artificial intelligence
Copilot canvases turn agent work into custom interfaces
GitHub shows how developers can build shared, interactive surfaces for planning and tracking work with agents.
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Updated October 18, 2026
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GitHub explores AI agents for the hard parts of fuzzing
A Security Lab taskflow agent targets coverage gaps, new harnesses, and crash triage in continuous fuzzing.
GitHub Security Lab
Artificial intelligence
When a chat box is the wrong interface for AI
GitHub makes the case for canvases: interfaces that give agent work more structure than a conversation can.
GitHub
Engineering
Inside GitHub's million-line pull request renderer
The Copilot app team rebuilt its diff surface to keep enormous reviews responsive, even with hundreds of comments.
GitHub Engineering
Engineering
GitHub Actions retires Node 20 for JavaScript actions
Runners now use Node 24, and maintainers of JavaScript actions need to update their action metadata.
GitHub
Artificial intelligence
Copilot code review gets finer personal and enterprise controls
Developers can tune automatic reviews and review effort; enterprises can set a default across repositories.
GitHub
Artificial intelligence
OpenAI brings GPT-6 Sol and Luna to everyday AI work
The new models aim to make stronger coding and agent capabilities faster and more affordable across the API and Codex.
OpenAI
Artificial intelligence
GPT-6 prompt caching gets diagnostics and explicit breakpoints
New tools help developers spot cache misses and control reused context in long-running agent workflows.
OpenAI