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GitHub shares a first look at GitHub Universe 2026, outlining what to expect from the event and how developers can get involved in the community opportunity announced for this year.

GitHub demonstrates how to clean up and submit stacked pull requests using the GitHub CLI stacked PRs extension, including inspecting PR layers, folding redundant commits, renaming layers, and submitting PRs for sequential review and merge on GitHub.

GitHub shows how to use voice prompting in the GitHub Copilot app to quickly turn a spoken “brain dump” into a usable text prompt, helping you get started faster when you’re not sure how to phrase what you want.

GitHub announces stacked pull requests and points to the official docs, focusing on how the feature helps teams review and manage a series of dependent changes more clearly.

GitHub shares a lofi-focused coding stream themed around keeping pull requests small and using stacked PRs, aimed at helping developers stay in a steady flow while working in their terminal and reviewing and merging changes.

GitHub hosts a Rubber Duck Thursdays session focused on Stacked PRs, covering how the feature fits into pull request workflows and what it changes for day-to-day code review and collaboration.

GitHub announces stacked pull requests and explains how they help teams break large changes into smaller, reviewable layers that can be merged one-by-one or all at once.

GitHub walks through what an agent Skill is and how to build one in GitHub Copilot, then covers what’s new in the MCP release that shipped this week.

GitHub shows how to customize the GitHub Copilot app, including themes and sounds, voice dictation and transcription model settings, and connecting custom MCP servers or local AI models using bring-your-own-key providers.

GitHub walks through starting a session in the GitHub Copilot app, including writing a first prompt, adding project context from a local folder or GitHub repository, choosing an AI model, and using voice input to describe coding problems.

GitHub highlights an open-source project that turns World Cup 2026 match event data into interactive 3D “data portraits,” focusing on how the visualization is built and delivered in the browser.

GitHub shares that Microsoft Comic Chat, a classic IRC client from 1996, has been open-sourced on GitHub, including original source snapshots and experiments to modernize it for current Windows versions.

GitHub’s The Download rounds up developer news including TypeScript 7’s new native Go compiler, VS Code 1.129’s dedicated agent host runtime, Kimi K3’s 2.8T-parameter model, and Microsoft open-sourcing the 1996 Comic Chat IRC client, plus a few other notable open-source and ecosystem updates.

GitHub hosts a “Rubber Duck Thursdays” coworking session where viewers can hang out with the team, ask questions, and hear what’s new in the GitHub ecosystem.

GitHub shows how to tailor the GitHub Copilot for Jira integration so teams can reach draft pull requests faster, using ticket-level and space-level instructions to set defaults like target repo and branch naming, and to route specific work (such as API refactors) to custom agents.

GitHub experiments with building a personal assistant using the GitHub CLI, focusing on how to wire up workflows and try out GitHub features from the command line.

GitHub demonstrates how to kick off GitHub Copilot work directly from Jira to produce a draft pull request, including three ways to trigger Copilot and what the review-ready output looks like in GitHub.

GitHub shows how the GitHub Copilot app can run multiple AI coding agent sessions in parallel, so different parts of a codebase can be worked on at the same time. The example highlights splitting work across agents for bug fixes, test writing, and feature development without clobbering each other’s changes.

GitHub gives a beginner-friendly tour of the GitHub Copilot app, positioning it as an agent-native desktop workspace for GitHub tasks. It shows how to start an agent session, hand off a real coding task, watch Copilot explore a codebase, run tests, and iteratively review and merge changes.

GitHub introduces GitHub Code Quality (now generally available) and shows how CodeQL analysis plus AI-assisted findings and Copilot Autofix can surface and fix issues directly in pull requests, with rulesets to enforce quality gates at merge time.

GitHub demonstrates how to onboard the GitHub Copilot for Jira integration, including installing the app from the Atlassian Marketplace, authorizing access, handling SSO, and enabling organizations so Copilot can turn a Jira work item into a draft pull request.

GitHub hosts a live Rubber Duck Thursday session exploring the new GPT-5.6 models (Luna, Terra, Sol) inside the GitHub Copilot App, focusing on what changes when you switch models and how that affects Copilot’s behavior during real-time usage.

GitHub compiles its GitHub for Beginners Season 3 into a single crash course covering core GitHub workflows: planning work with Issues and Projects, automating CI/CD with GitHub Actions, using built-in security features, publishing with GitHub Pages, writing Markdown, and making first open source contributions.

GitHub announces general availability of GitHub issue fields, enabling structured, typed metadata on issues (priority, effort, dates, and custom values) and surfacing that data directly in the repository issues list. GitHub also highlights connecting issue fields to external tools via the GitHub MCP server.

GitHub announces that the GitHub Copilot desktop app is now available across every plan, including Copilot Free and GitHub Education, and highlights agentic coding sessions plus bring-your-own-key support for custom AI model providers.

GitHub recaps this week’s developer news, including the general availability of the GitHub Copilot app (now supporting free and education plans plus bring-your-own-key), GitHub Issue Fields reaching general availability, and quick updates on new ECMAScript JavaScript methods and the new HTTP QUERY method.

GitHub introduces Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) support in the GitHub Copilot app, showing how to connect custom model providers, run local models with Ollama, and switch models from the model picker across all Copilot plans.

GitHub explains how to control GitHub Copilot costs in large organizations by mapping enterprise teams to cost centers, configuring AI credit pools, and applying user-level spending caps with per-user overrides for power users.

GitHub introduces GitHub Copilot code review “medium depth” reviews (public preview), showing how the higher-reasoning review mode can produce longer, more thorough pull request feedback for complex logic and security-sensitive changes, and how admins can enable it at the repository or organization level.

GitHub walks through recent updates from the GitHub Changelog and demos experimenting with “canvases” inside the GitHub Copilot app, focusing on what’s new and how the tooling behaves in practice.

GitHub shares a “Rubber Duck Thursday” update video highlighting what’s new and where to follow ongoing GitHub announcements across its official channels.

GitHub highlights Arnis, an open source project that turns real-world map and elevation data into detailed Minecraft worlds, letting you generate accurate terrain and buildings and tweak settings like scale and spawn points.

GitHub announces that GitHub Copilot Agent can now be added natively in JetBrains IDEs through JetBrains AI Assistant, using agent client protocol support. The video highlights a quick enablement flow from the AI agents tab and examples like summarizing projects, reviewing README files, and running tests with code coverage checks.

GitHub demonstrates the new /impeccable skill in the GitHub Copilot app, using it as a design partner to polish an open-source web app UI. The video shows enabling the feature in Experimental settings, iterating on UI improvements, and creating a pull request directly from the app.

GitHub shows how they use a GitHub Copilot app to monitor multiple community feedback streams and repository boards, then turn that input into actionable tasks with a single prompt.

GitHub announces general availability of the GitHub Copilot desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, positioning it as an agent-native control center for working across repositories. GitHub highlights features like isolated git work trees and agent merge to help manage parallel agent workflows without losing context.

GitHub shares an episode of The Download covering the general availability of the GitHub Copilot desktop app as a control center for managing multiple AI agents, plus updates on Anthropic pulling specific models offline and a quick look at Arnis for generating Minecraft worlds from real geography.

GitHub hosts a Rubber Duck Thursdays coworking stream that talks through updates from the GitHub changelog and discusses the GitHub Copilot app, alongside general live coding and developer Q&A.

GitHub discusses “loop engineering” as a practical way to think about building with AI agents, focusing on how iterative feedback loops shape agent behavior and reliability.

GitHub announces updates to GitHub Copilot CLI that add a terminal UI and tighter GitHub platform workflows, including tabs for issues and pull requests, quick access to gists, and slash-command driven actions like creating PRs and assigning reviewers from the terminal.