Tooling7d ago
GitHub Copilot Automations go team-wide: repo-owned shared automations, 24 new triggers, 20 new tools and AI credit limits
At GitHub Universe on Oct 28, GitHub shipped a batch of Copilot Automations updates. Shared automations now belong to the repository, act as Copilot, bill AI credits to the repo owner and keep running after their creator leaves. Automations gain 24 new GitHub event triggers, REST API triggers from external systems and chaining, plus 20 new tools and custom MCP servers. Teams can cap AI credits per run, day, week or month, automations can propose improvements to their own prompts from real outcomes, and VS Code 1.144 can run them in the cloud.
Benchmark2d ago
SemiAnalysis releases GDPx, an agentic benchmark of 206 tasks across 11 high-value domains where the top model, Claude Opus 5.5, scores just 12%
On Nov 2, semiconductor and AI research firm SemiAnalysis released GDPx, a benchmark of agentic capability across 11 domains: chip design, cybersecurity, biology, finance, legal, quant trading, recursive self-improvement (RSI), hardware design, materials science, alignment and software engineering. Its 206 tasks were built by 14 specialist data partners, with SemiAnalysis doing final QA. On the official leaderboard Claude Opus 5.5 leads at 12.0%, followed by Gemini 4 Carbon at 10.9% and GPT-6 Astra at 9.6%; nearly every model scores 0 on finance and legal. SemiAnalysis says safety classifiers drag down Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, and plans a new version every 3–6 months. All scores are as reported by SemiAnalysis.
Tooling2d ago
Anthropic Launches Message Threads in Public Beta on the Messages API: Server-Side Conversations Cut Claude Code TTFT About 35% on 500K-1M Token Requests
On November 2 (US time) Anthropic put message threads into public beta on the Messages API (beta header message-threads-2026-08-12). The API keeps the conversation on the server: the first request sends the full conversation and creates a thread, and each later request sends only new messages plus the previous response id. Anthropic says threads are on by default for most Claude Code users, cutting median time to first token by about 35% on 500K-1M token requests, while the median long-conversation request shrank from about 800 KB to 1.8 KB. Threads expire after 5 idle minutes; pricing and rate limits are unchanged.
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