What are GitHub Copilot's "Local Sandbox" and MXC? An engineer's guide to the mechanism for containing AI agents

IntroductionWhile keeping up with IT trends, I became curious about the news that GitHub Copilot's "Local Sandbox" had ...

GitHub: Improving the confirmation and resolution flow for Copilot code review

AI code review is shifting from a "feature that increases comments" to a "work dashboard for organizing changes that need ...
techtimes

GitHub Copilot Model Policy Goes Live: Unconfigured AI Models Now On by Default for Enterprise Users

GitHub on August 26, 2026, began rolling out its global model policy — a fundamental change to how enterprise Copilot deployments handle model access. For the first time, organizations running Copilot ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands-On with GitHub Copilot's New Cost-vs.-Quality Auto Model Tiers

GitHub Copilot's Auto model selection now offers Efficiency, Balance and Intelligence settings for prioritizing cost, a mix of factors or quality. In a hands-on test using the same prompt, Auto ...
TechCrunch

GitHub’s Copilot comes to Apple’s Xcode

At its Universe conference, GitHub today announced a number of major new products, including the Spark project for writing applications entirely with AI, as well as multi-model support for its Copilot ...
The Verge

GitHub Copilot gets a new ChatGPT-like assistant to help developers write and fix code

GitHub is using OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 model to go way beyond auto-completing comments and code. Copilot X gets chat and voice support. GitHub is using OpenAI’s latest GPT-4 model to go way beyond auto ...
TECHI

Microsoft stock: Copilot’s local AI push faces a memory hurdle

Microsoft’s local Copilot model has a 53GB footprint and a 75.5GB tested peak. TECHi explains the hardware limits, October ...