Release31d ago
Cursor ships Claude Opus 5.5: tops CursorBench at 57.8% (Max), ~40% cheaper per task than Opus 5
Cursor (@cursor_ai) announced Claude Opus 5.5 is available in Cursor. Officially it is the new top model on CursorBench at 57.8% (Max) and costs about 40% less per task than Opus 5, wiring Anthropic’s same-day Opus 5.5 launch into a leading AI IDE.
Tooling2d ago
VS Code 1.143 makes the Copilot SDK-based harness the default, adds multi-model comparison and on-device MAI Code 1.1 Flash
Microsoft shipped Visual Studio Code 1.143. The Copilot harness, built on the Copilot SDK, is now the default for new sessions and works across the editor and Agents window. A Compare Models preview runs several models on one task with an optional Judge model, an experimental mode runs MAI Code 1.1 Flash on a local NVIDIA GPU, and large chats open much faster.
Tooling3d ago
VS Code Preview Introduces Canvases: Shared Workspaces for Developers and Coding Agents
The Microsoft VS Code team announced Canvases in VS Code Preview (v1.142), introducing dedicated shared visual workspaces connecting developers with autonomous coding agents. Addressing the severe UX limitations of cramped sidebar chat windows—where complex multi-file architectural modifications and agent diffs become hard to track—Canvases provides an expansive, interactive infinite-canvas whiteboard. Developers and agents (such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Cline) can collaboratively organize system flowcharts, live interactive code diffs, execution traces, and unit test rollouts side by side.
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