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GitHub

AI-powered developer platform

github.com

Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded year: 2008
Company type: Private company
Number of employees: 500–6,500

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Latest news about GitHub

In short: GitHub introduced the Copilot desktop app and agentic workflows, while addressing infrastructure reliability and several major security incidents.

Company announcements

Yesterday GitHub

GitHub makes GitHub Copilot app generally available

The desktop app supports agent-driven development with parallel sessions, cloud automations, and custom models.

June 16 GitHub

GitHub Models is no longer available to new customers

Existing customers can continue using it, while new customers lose access. Full retirement details will come later.

June 16 GitHub

GitHub Code Quality generally available July 20, 2026

Priced at $10 per active committer per month plus usage for AI and deterministic analysis. New capabilities include organization-wide deployment and quality dashboards.

June 12 GitHub

GitHub announces minimum version enforcement timeline for self-hosted runners

The enforcement begins July 31 for GHEC with Data Residency and September 25 for GHEC, with brownout periods before.

Media coverage

June 16 Yahoo Tech

AI‑driven GitHub outages pushed Microsoft into an unexpected alliance with Amazon

Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018. The company promised to take good care of...

June 15 Yahoo Tech

Microsoft Just Unveiled a New Coding Model — and the Real Question Is Whether It Can Stand Toe‑to‑Toe With Claude Code

The Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Build event was packed, and while it didn’t do many favors for the share...

June 12 The Register

Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite move to Azure

GitHub has been struggling with service availability in recent months as traffic on the platform has...

June 9 BleepingComputer

The ‘Miasma’ worm source code briefly leaked on GitHub

The Miasma credential-stealing attack framework, which has recently targeted open-source ecosystems...

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