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.
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.
GPT-5.5 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot across all major IDEs and platforms, but comes with a 7.5x premium request multiplier that will burn through credits fast. The same update brings inline agent mode to JetBrains IDEs.
Kiro CLI 2.1.0 ships with line-by-line shell output streaming, on-demand MCP tool loading, skills as slash commands, device flow authentication for SSH environments, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux support.
The open-source VS Code coding agent is ending its extension, Cloud, and Router services on May 15, 2026. The team says the IDE era is over and is betting on Roomote, a cloud-based autonomous agent that works through Slack, GitHub, and Linear.
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on April 23, its most capable model yet, with benchmark scores showing meaningful gains in agentic coding, SWE tasks, and command-line workflows. The model now powers Codex for over 4 million weekly developers.
The latest stable Gemini CLI release brings built-in subagent delegation so your main session can hand off complex subtasks to specialized agents, plus a context compression service that keeps long sessions focused.
Accenture, Capgemini, CGI, Cognizant, Infosys, PwC, and TCS have all signed on to help enterprises adopt Codex. OpenAI also launched Codex Labs and crossed 4 million weekly active users in the span of two weeks.
Claude Code's Ultraplan feature moves implementation planning off your terminal and into the cloud. Opus 4.6 gets 30 minutes to think, you get a browser UI with inline comments. Here's what it actually does.
A leaked Brin memo says Google must 'urgently bridge the gap' in agentic coding. DeepMind assembled a dedicated team, some engineers are already using Claude Code instead of Gemini, and internal tensions are now visible enough to spill into the press.
Cognizant and CGI both announced enterprise partnerships with OpenAI around Codex on April 21. CGI, which has 94,000 consultants worldwide already using Codex, gains early access to new capabilities. Cognizant embeds Codex directly into its Software Engineering Group.
GitHub stopped accepting new sign-ups for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans on April 20, citing compute costs driven by agentic workflows. The company also tightened usage limits and removed Opus models from the Pro tier. Community reaction has been harsh.
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