Amazon announced on April 30 that Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins and paid subscriptions will reach end of support on April 30, 2027. New signups are blocked starting May 15, 2026. Kiro, AWS's spec-driven agentic coding environment, is the intended replacement.
Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.6 on April 20. The open-weight model scores 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified and 66.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0, with pricing of $0.60 per million input tokens on the official API. It's a meaningful upgrade over K2.5 on every benchmark that matters for coding agents.
VS Code 1.118 shipped on April 29 with a default-on setting that adds GitHub Copilot as a co-author on git commits. Developers noticed it was running even with AI features disabled, and Microsoft is reverting the default in 1.119.
Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.5-Pro on April 27: an open-source 1-trillion-parameter MoE model that scores comparably to Claude Opus 4.6 on coding benchmarks while using 40–60% fewer tokens per task. Weights are freely available on Hugging Face.
Copilot CLI 1.0.40 ships client_credentials OAuth for headless MCP authentication, fixes subagents using their own model's tool-search settings, and caps autopilot continuation at 5 by default.
Cursor Security Review enters beta on Teams and Enterprise plans with two always-on agents: a Security Reviewer that comments on every PR, and a Vulnerability Scanner that runs scheduled codebase sweeps.
Three releases over three days — v2.1.122, v2.1.123, and v2.1.126 — bring Windows PowerShell 7 as a first-class shell, a new project purge command, smarter resume-by-PR-URL, and OAuth improvements for WSL2 and SSH containers.
Microsoft's Agent 365 went generally available today, May 1, as part of the new Microsoft 365 E7 tier. It's a central control plane for registering, governing, and auditing AI agents across Microsoft, Copilot, and third-party platforms.
Microsoft's April 2026 update to Visual Studio brings the async cloud agent that VS Code has had for months. You describe a task, the agent runs on GitHub Actions, and you get a pull request without keeping VS open.
OpenAI's Codex CLI 0.128.0 adds a /goal command that keeps the agent looping toward an objective across turns until it achieves it, runs out of budget, or you pause it.
Gemini CLI v0.40.0 is the new stable release as of April 28. It bundles ripgrep for offline code search, adds tools for listing and reading MCP resources, and replaces the memory manager with a prompt-driven four-tier system.
IBM's Bob is now generally available. It covers the full software development lifecycle with multi-model routing, BobShell for auditability, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints — targeting enterprise teams who need AI coding with governance attached.
PocketOS, a car rental software company, lost its production database and all backups when a Cursor agent powered by Claude Opus 4.6 decided to 'fix' a credential mismatch on its own. The agent later confessed: 'I violated every principle I was given.'
OpenAI and AWS announced an expanded partnership on April 28, making GPT-5.4, GPT-5.5, and Codex available through Amazon Bedrock in limited preview. Enterprise developers can access OpenAI tools with existing AWS credentials and apply usage toward cloud spend commitments.
Windsurf 2.1.29 adds Devin as a standalone terminal agent on April 28. It runs on your machine with full codebase access, supports Opus 4.7, GPT-5.5, and SWE-1.6, and can hand sessions off to cloud Devin when the work outgrows your laptop.
Zed released parallel agent orchestration on April 22, making it the first AI code editor to natively run multiple agents simultaneously in the same window. A new Threads Sidebar groups sessions by project and controls what each agent can access.
GitHub announced April 27 that all Copilot plans will switch from premium request units to GitHub AI Credits on June 1, 2026. Base prices stay the same but usage is calculated on actual token consumption, and developers are not happy about it.
Claude Code v2.1.121 shipped April 28 with a plugin prune command, an alwaysLoad option for MCP servers, type-to-filter in /skills, and fixes for two separate multi-gigabyte memory leaks affecting image processing and /usage.
Cursor 3.2 shipped on April 24 with a /multitask command that breaks large requests into async subagents running in parallel, improved worktrees for branch-isolated background work, and multi-root workspaces for cross-repo agent sessions.
Cognition AI is in early talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $25 billion valuation — more than double its $10.2B valuation from September 2024. The company makes Devin, the autonomous AI software engineer, and acquired Windsurf last July.
Gemini CLI v0.39.0 shipped April 23 with a /memory inbox command that lets you review and patch skills the agent has extracted from your sessions. It also tightens Plan Mode with user confirmation for skill activation and adds richer visual output during execution.
OpenAI launched Workspace Agents in ChatGPT on April 22 as a successor to Custom GPTs. They're powered by Codex, designed for team sharing, and can run autonomously in the cloud while you're offline.
GitHub paused new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, Student, and Business plans starting April 20, citing unsustainable compute costs from agentic workflows. Usage limits tightened and Opus models restricted to Pro+ only.
Anthropic quietly updated its pricing page on April 21 to remove Claude Code from the $20 Pro plan, said nothing about it, got caught, and reversed within hours. It called the whole thing an A/B test.
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