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8/10/2026 4 min

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GitHub adds MCP allowlists for Copilot enterprise deployments

GitHub’s new Copilot enterprise settings let administrators approve or block MCP servers across supported clients, giving platform teams a concrete control point for agent-tool governance.

Tools & Apps

8/9/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

Kimi K3 reaches GitHub Copilot with admin-gated rollout

GitHub has started rolling out Moonshot AI’s open-weight Kimi K3 model in Copilot, with usage-based billing, broad client support, and a required admin policy for Business and Enterprise organizations.

Tools & Apps

8/8/2026 3 min

@ZachasADMIN

Cloudflare merges Workers AI and AI Gateway billing into one control plane

Cloudflare is unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway so developers can call Cloudflare-hosted and third-party models through shared AI bindings, REST endpoints, observability, controls, and prepaid billing.

Tools & Apps

8/6/2026 5 min

@ZachasADMIN

Cloudflare adds identity-aware controls to AI Gateway for enterprise AI spend

Cloudflare launched Identity-Aware AI Gateway in open beta and made User Insights generally available, giving teams verified user attribution, spend controls, and anomaly detection for AI traffic routed through AI Gateway.

Tools & Apps

8/3/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

OpenAI Atlas reaches its August 9 shutdown window

OpenAI says Atlas is scheduled to stop working on August 9, and browser data such as bookmarks, open tabs, and history will not transfer automatically.

Tools & Apps

8/1/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

GitHub Models shuts down for all users as inference moves to Foundry

GitHub Models is now fully retired, removing the playground, model catalog, inference API, and BYOK endpoints for every customer after a July migration window.

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