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Zed released a public beta of Delta, a collaboration tool built around AI-agent "threads" and a new DeltaDB versioning layer meant to replace GitHub pull requests.

Zed Industries opened public beta access to Delta, a collaborative environment for coding with AI agents that the company says is meant to replace pull requests.

Microsoft says AI-assisted coding is driving a surge in Edge extension submissions, so it is automating review checks and refreshing quality badges every 15 days.

Harness launched an agent-ready code repository and an AI Code Review product built to handle thousands of pull requests per second as coding agents multiply PR volume.

Neovim's Lua standard library gains vim.async, a structured-concurrency module merged into master and milestoned for the 0.13 release.

An insider tip to The Register says Red Hat's R&D unit capped developer AI token spending at $300 a month, arriving months after Gartner warned such costs could soon rival developer salaries industry-wide.

pnpm 12 replaces the package manager's TypeScript/Node.js implementation with Rust, with independent Vercel Turborepo testing showing median install-time cuts of 64.4% to 90.5%.

Anthropic's new coding-focused Claude Fable 5.1 became selectable in GitHub Copilot the day it launched, but the model requires data retention by default and stays off until administrators enable it.

HashiCorp argues HCP Terraform's policy, identity, and audit controls must govern AI agents authoring infrastructure changes, pointing to its new tfctl CLI as part of that model.

GitHub Copilot's automated code review can now submit approvals that count toward merge requirements, but the capability ships disabled by default and requires an administrator to opt in at the enterprise, organization, or repository level.

Figma replaced Projects with folders that nest up to 10 levels deep starting August 3, 2026, but users on its own forum immediately flagged missing previews, non-persistent sorting, and broken API endpoints.

GitHub is deprecating six Copilot AI models and reenabling Business and Enterprise sign-ups for credit-card and PayPal payers, both effective September 1, 2026.