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AI & Automation

9/20/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

GitHub Copilot adds cost-aware model routing and agent workflows

GitHub Copilot is rolling out cost, quality, and response-time tiers for automatic model selection alongside broader code-review, Dev Container, and agent-session controls.

AI & Automation

9/20/2026 3 min

@ZachasADMIN

xAI opens Grok 4.6 on its API with 500K context

xAI's developer release notes now list Grok 4.6 as available on the API, with text and image input, a 500K-token context window, four reasoning-effort levels, and pricing that changes above 200K prompt tokens.

AI & Automation

9/20/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

GitHub Copilot sets September 28 defaults for agents, reviews, and billing

GitHub is consolidating Copilot chat and cloud-agent access, changing the default code-review effort to Balanced, and moving Business and Enterprise seat charges earlier in the billing flow.

AI & Automation

9/20/2026 3 min

@ZachasADMIN

Vercel adds Z.ai GLM-5.3 FlashX to its AI Gateway

Vercel now exposes Z.ai's GLM-5.3 FlashX through AI Gateway, with a stated serving speed of about 200 tokens per second and built-in routing, usage tracking, and fallbacks.

AI & Automation

9/19/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

Anthropic opens verified Claude access for life-science teams

Anthropic is opening applications for a beta program that gives verified life-science teams more permissive access to Claude for biology and drug-discovery work, with separate grants for higher-risk projects.

AI & Automation

9/19/2026 3 min

@ZachasADMIN

Anthropic puts Accenture inside frontier-model safety evaluations

Anthropic is partnering with Accenture's Faculty to place evaluators inside its frontier-model development process, with both organizations planning at least $1 billion each in evaluation capacity over five years.

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