📣 OpenAI just reduced the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20%. Try both models in VS Code today. Happy coding! 💙
⚡ TypeScript 7 compiles the 2.3M-line VS Code codebase in under five seconds. TypeScript creator Anders Hejlsberg explains how the new Go-powered compiler and language service scale with shared-memory concurrency. 📖 Read more: aka.ms/typescript7
⚡ VS Code shipped a wave of updates for agents and the editor this month! 🔍 Review multi-file changes at a glance in the Agents window 📝 Edit Markdown files alongside agent feedback with the hybrid editor 🎙️ Built-in dictation in chat, editors, and the terminal ✨ Modern UI preview, and much more!
📊 Early production insights from MAI-Code-1-Flash We're sharing an early look at how MAI-Code-1-Flash performs in production and what the data suggests about coding quality and token efficiency in real developer workflows. 🔗 Read the full analysis: aka.ms/VSCodeBlog/MAI
MAI-Code-1-Flash: early results from real developer workflows
MAI-Code-1-Flash is a lightweight coding model purpose built for the fast, iterative work developers do every day in GitHub. In this post, we share what the data is telling us about how it performs…
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🚀 See what your subagents are doing in real time, use built-in dictation across VS Code, and streamline docs with the hybrid Markdown editor. 🧵 Here's what's new in the latest VS Code release:
Have you been using TypeScript 7? @ahejlsberg.bsky.social shows off what 10x faster build & editing experiences look like with @vscode.dev!
TypeScript 7 Is Here (And It's 10× Faster)
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📣 Claude Opus 5 is now rolling out in VS Code. Give it a try! github.blog/changelog/20...
🚀 Spend less time on approvals, review changes faster, and get more insight into your chats. 🧵 Here's what's new in the latest VS Code release:
🆕 Gemini 3.6 Flash is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. Try it in Visual Studio Code! github.blog/changelog/20...
Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot - GitHub Changelog
Gemini 3.6 Flash, Google’s latest Flash model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for web and app development, coding, and longer-horizon agentic tasks. It has configurable…
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🚀 The latest VS Code release brings new capabilities for agent workflows. The workbench gets a fresh look with the experimental Modern UI preview. You can now run terminal commands directly from chat. For more complex tasks, agents can create sessions and delegate work across conversations.
📢 In our latest video, learn how to run powerful language models locally in #vscode with the brand new #Ollama extension! Check it out ▶️ youtu.be/oi668OuFbag #vscodeextension
⚡ TypeScript 7 is here! Built with a native Go implementation, it brings up to 10× faster builds while maintaining compatibility with your existing TypeScript projects. Read more: devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/a...
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 - TypeScript
Today we are proud to announce the availability of TypeScript 7, a 10x faster native port of TypeScript! Since its early days, TypeScript has promised to
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⚡ VS Code just shipped a big wave of GitHub Copilot upgrades! 🌐 Build and validate web apps with browser agent tools 🤖 Manage parallel agent workflows with the Agents window (Preview) 🎓 New VS Code Learn courses, and much more. 📖 Read the full changelog: aka.ms/VSCode/chang... Happy coding! 💙
⚡ Prompt tuning made GPT-5.5 faster and more token-efficient in VS Code. Learn how we worked with OpenAI to validate prompt changes and improve the coding harness after launch. code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/0...
How Prompt Tuning Improved GPT-5.5 in VS Code
See how VS Code and OpenAI tested GPT-5.5 system prompt changes in a two-week experiment, cutting tool calls and tail-end token usage while speeding up edits.
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🚀 Build and test web apps right in the browser with VS Code! Pages can now request camera, location, and device access with per-site approval prompts. The Agents window (Preview) also introduces guided onboarding tours to help you get started faster.
📣 Claude Sonnet 5 is now rolling out in VS Code. Give it a try! github.blog/changelog/20...
⚡ Learn how the VS Code and TypeScript teams collaborated to bring TypeScript 7 to VS Code. The result: faster builds, faster iteration, and a better day-to-day development experience. Read more: code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/0...
🚀 VS Code has never been more powerful! In this video, we highlight the latest features including integrated browser improvements, device emulation, Mermaid diagrams, better issue reporting, and a sneak peek of our new VS Code Learn content. Check it out: ▶️ youtu.be/5wa2y0nmvuo
🚀 The latest VS Code release makes model tuning and chat cost tracking easier. Adjust context size and reasoning effort from one unified model customization picker. You can also see the total cost of every chat session, so it’s easier to understand usage over time.
🎬 On this week's VS Code Livestream Yo-Lei Chen and Carlos Robles join @ReynaldAdolphe to showcase the newest capabilities in the MSSQL extension for VS Code. Join us live on Thursday, June 23 at 9 am pacific ▶️ youtube.com/live/eKvejWo...
📊 Sometimes the smallest evals reveal the biggest insights. See what 50,000 runs of a 5-line task taught the VS Code team about model efficiency, tool use, and AI behavior. 📖 Read the full post: aka.ms/vscode/blog/...
What 50,000 Runs of a 5-Line Eval Taught Us
How AI coding models calibrate effort, token cost, and tool use on even the simplest task, and what that means for model selection and cost.
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Excited to see Enterprise-Managed Authorization for MCP now supported in VS Code. ✨ Access organization-approved MCP servers with your work account—without repeated OAuth setup. Less auth friction. More building. Great overview from Harald Kirschner 👇 aka.ms/XAA-HK
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Promotional graphic for Visual Studio Code’s support of Enterprise-Managed Authorization (XAA). The image shows the VS Code logo, a heart symbol, and the text “XAA” with the headline “VS Code loves Enterprise-managed Auth.” Below, the text reads “Secure. Seamless. Enterprise-ready.” On the right is an illustration of the VS Code editor interface alongside a shield-and-lock security icon. A link at the bottom invites viewers to read the blog post about enterprise-managed authorization for the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
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🤖 Bring your own AI models to VS Code! Connect models from providers you already use, run local models, and choose the right model for every workflow in VS Code. 📖 Read the full post: aka.ms/vscode/blog/...
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📣 TypeScript 7's Release Candidate is now out! 📣 The new native rewrite is almost here. Try it out on your codebases, and make sure your team is ready for the upcoming 7.0 release!
Announcing TypeScript 7.0 RC - TypeScript
The Release Candidate for TypeScript 7.0 is now available!
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🚀 The latest VS Code release just expanded your AI model options. Discover and install extra providers from the Marketplace right inside the editor. Just browse, install, and your new models show up in the picker!
The GitHub Copilot app is now generally available. Hand off from agent powered flows in the app to full coding in VS Code without losing context or the conversation. 🔗 Learn more: gh.io/app-ga
⚡ Every token matters in agentic coding workflows. Learn how the GitHub Copilot team is improving token efficiency in VS Code through smarter caching, tool search, WebSockets, and specialized subagents. 📖 Read the full post: aka.ms/vscode/blog/...
Improving token efficiency in GitHub Copilot
Learn how we're improving token efficiency in GitHub Copilot to reduce costs and latency for users.
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The Integrated Browser in VS Code just got more useful. 🌐 ⭐ Favorites 📸 Full-page screenshots ✂️ Partial screenshots Small additions, but they make it much easier to research, test, document, and stay in flow without leaving VS Code.
🤖 What does it take to build coding models for millions of developers? Go behind the scenes with Microsoft AI and learn how GitHub Copilot models are trained, evaluated, and optimized for real world coding workflows. youtu.be/hH4RiA7pk5Q?...
What we learned shipping VS Code weekly (without breaking everything) | BRK204
Shipping faster sounds great until test gaps, review bottlenecks, and triage backlog scale with it. The VS Code team hit all of that going from monthly to weekly releases, and agents made it work.…
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