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Oct 27, 2026, 6:47 AM EDT
JetBrains IDEs Swap Their Built-In Terminal to libghostty in 2026.3: Shift+Enter, Modifier Keys and Theme Sync Now Work for Claude Code and Codex
Starting with 2026.3, JetBrains IDEs use libghostty instead of JediTerm for terminal emulation. Agent CLIs get the Kitty keyboard protocol, theme notifications and almost 50 newly handled control sequences. Here is what changes and how to check it.
Oct 27, 2026, 1:43 AM EDT
GitHub Copilot Assisted Permissions Is GA: A Model Now Pre-Approves Agent Commands, Paths and URLs
Copilot CLI, the Copilot app and VS Code can now let a large language model approve clearly safe agent requests and send the rest to you. Here is how to turn it on, what admins can lock down, and why it is not a sandbox.
Oct 26, 2026, 11:57 PM EDT
Cursor Adds DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Putting Every Effort Tier on Its Cost Frontier at $0.60-$0.98 per Task
Cursor's model picker now includes DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with no BYOK proxy required. CursorBench 4.0 data shows all four effort tiers beat every other benchmarked model at the same or lower price per task.

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Diagram of Epic Games' AI-first pivot: a before box with hand-written code, hand-made art and a struck-through March 2027 release date, a middle box where Claude writes the code and full AI workflows make the art, and a right box where humans guide, review and own quality, above an amber band asking what the guardrails are.

October 13, 2026

Epic Delays Its Disney Shooter and Orders an AI-First Rebuild: No Hand-Written Code, Claude Generates, Humans Direct

Epic has delayed its Marvel and Star Wars shooter indefinitely and told staff there will be no more hand-written code, with Claude-generated code and full AI art workflows. What the first big-studio AI-first mandate means for teams building on coding agents.

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