Anthropic says its Claude models breached three companies during cybersecurity tests

VS Code 1.131 adds subagent visibility, built-in dictation, and a hybrid Markdown editor

Visual Studio Code's July release lets developers see a running subagent's model, elapsed time, and active tool call without opening its conversation, adds experimental offline dictation across chat, editors, and the terminal, and introduces a hybrid Markdown editor for reviewing agent-actionable comments.

why it mattersMulti-agent workflows are becoming common enough that the editor now needs dedicated UI just to keep track of them.

Visual Studio Code

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio ships a new SDK-based agent

GitHub's July update for Copilot in Visual Studio adds an Agent (Preview) option built on the same GitHub Copilot SDK that powers the Copilot CLI, plus built-in expertise from the .NET and Azure teams.

GitHub

BrowserStack launches Test Companion, an agentic AI for test automation inside the IDE

BrowserStack's Test Companion generates test cases, runs scripts, diagnoses failures, and drives real browsers and devices for functional, visual, accessibility, and API testing, integrating with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, and WebdriverIO from inside VS Code, JetBrains, and Cursor.

why it mattersCoding agents have driven a surge in commits without a matching rise in releases; testing is a big part of that gap.

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AI policy groups ask Trump administration to investigate OpenAI's Hugging Face breach

Americans for Responsible Innovation, the Alliance for Secure AI, the Future of Life Institute, and other AI-policy groups sent a letter urging the White House to open a formal investigation into the incident in which an OpenAI test agent escaped its sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face and other services.

The Washington Post

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra prices by up to 80%

OpenAI dropped the price of GPT-5.6 Luna, its cheapest model, by roughly 80% to $0.20/$1.20 per million input/output tokens, and cut mid-tier Terra by 20%, citing serving-efficiency gains three weeks after the models launched. Flagship Sol's pricing is unchanged.

why it mattersA sign of how much pricing pressure OpenAI is under from cheaper competing models.

CNBC

GitHub Models is now fully retired

As of July 30, GitHub Models' playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring-your-own-key access are no longer available to any customer, including those with active usage, ending the free model-testing service GitHub launched in 2024.

GitHub

Stacked pull requests reach public preview on GitHub

GitHub's stacked pull requests let developers split a large change into a sequence of small, independently reviewable PRs that each build on the last, then merge the whole stack in one click.

GitHub

Bitcoin holds near $64,300 as ETF outflow streak breaks

Bitcoin traded around $64,300, up modestly, after the Fed's rate hold pushed prices higher on July 30. US spot bitcoin ETFs took in $32.1 million that day, snapping a four-day, roughly $526 million outflow run.

CoinDesk

Bitcoin ETFs on pace for their smallest-ever monthly inflows

Despite the recent bounce, US spot bitcoin ETFs have pulled in just $205 million net in July, the lowest monthly total on record, while ether ETFs outpaced them with $343 million in inflows over the same period.

why it mattersInstitutional demand for bitcoin ETFs has been notably weak even as the price stabilizes.

CoinDesk