Microsoft's VS Code 1.128, released July 8, puts Claude front and center — multi-chat agent sessions let developers compare approaches, branch from earlier turns and run work in parallel, while Copilot Vision goes GA and enterprises get OpenTelemetry controls.
Microsoft is expanding Dataverse into an agent data platform, bringing its coding-agent plugin to Claude, Cursor and GitHub Copilot with broadened MCP support, certification and governance.
Cowork is expanding to web and mobile with remote sessions, synced files and a shared home across devices, plus Microsoft 365 write tools — rolling out over the coming weeks starting with Max.
Anthropic opened a public beta of Claude Code and Cowork in Claude for Government Desktop — FedRAMP High authorized, with tamper-evident audit logs and spend governance for agencies.
Google is investing about $75 million in A24 under an AI research pact with DeepMind — the first with a full studio — focused first on AI storyboards, with no access to A24's library.
Runway rolled out Seed Audio 1.0 for all paid plans — up to 120 seconds of generated speech, sound design and music, steerable with a 30-second audio reference.
Amazon MGM Studios greenlit three AI series for Prime Video under its new GenAI Creators' Fund — commissioned programming, not experiments, from creators working with generative tools.
Adobe's Premiere Pro 26.3 update targets social creators with single-word captions for fast-paced short-form video, improved Firefly workflows and new creative effects.
Blackmagic shipped DaVinci Resolve 21.0.2 on July 1 with faster bypass switching, better H.265 playback on NVIDIA GPUs, and fixes spanning keyframes, retime curves and IntelliSearch.