GitHub Sets August 31 Deadline for Spark App Exports as It Retires the AI App Builder
GitHub is shutting down its natural-language app builder Spark, cutting off new users on August 4 and giving existing users until August 31 to export their code.
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GitHub is shutting down its natural-language app builder Spark, cutting off new users on August 4 and giving existing users until August 31 to export their code.
GitHub shut down its free AI model playground, catalog, inference API, and BYOK access on July 30, 2026, directing developers to Microsoft Foundry or Copilot.
Visual Studio Code 1.128 lets a single Claude agent-host session hold multiple parallel chats and moves Copilot Vision to general availability.
At Build 2026 in San Francisco, Microsoft unveiled Project Polaris to replace GPT-4 Turbo in GitHub Copilot, open-sourced the Windows Agent Framework, and previewed the Windows Agent Runtime and Azure Agent Mesh.
Figma's new use_figma MCP tool gives coding agents write access to design files, while a markdown-based Skills framework lets teams encode conventions for agent-driven workflows.
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code moves to weekly stable releases starting with version 1.111, adding an Autopilot mode that lets AI agents operate autonomously, while Google simultaneously launches a similar auto-approve feature in Gemini Code Assist with stark security warnings.