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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.
Oct 26, 2026, 10:56 PM EDT
GPT-6.1 Terra Lands on Amazon Bedrock and GitHub Copilot at Half Price
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Terra arrives simultaneously on Amazon Bedrock and GitHub Copilot, offering a 1M-token context window, 3x faster task execution, and 50% lower token pricing for daily agentic workflows.

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Diagram showing Vercel AI Gateway session affinity: coding agents Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor on the left route through AI Gateway Sessions view in the center, with session affinity keeping turns locked to Provider A where the prompt is cached, while Providers B and C serve only as fallbacks. Bottom cards highlight cache hit rate, per-session cost tracking, and visible turns per session.

October 19, 2026

Vercel AI Gateway Now Shows Session Affinity and Per-Session Cost Tracking for Coding Agents

Vercel AI Gateway now groups requests into sessions with cache hit rate, per-session cost, and coding agent tracking. Session affinity keeps turns on one provider by default.

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