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Slack Code puts four rival coding agents in one channel — and doesn't sell any of them
On 20 August 2026 Salesforce launched Slack Code: dedicated 'code channels' where Claude, Devin, GitHub Copilot and Vercel write, diff and preview code in front of the whole team. Slack charges nothing for the channel and sells none of the agents. That is not generosity — it is the same land grab happening one layer down, and it changes what your agent bill looks like.
Read story →Microsoft unveils Project Polaris at Build 2026 — its own model replaces OpenAI inside GitHub Copilot starting August
At Microsoft Build 2026 on June 2, Satya Nadella unveiled Project Polaris — Microsoft's in-house mixture-of-experts coding model that will replace GPT-4 Turbo as the default engine for all GitHub Copilot subscribers starting August 2026. The transition is automatic with an optional three-month fallback. Polaris outperforms GPT-4 Turbo on HumanEval and MBPP — especially on low-resource languages like Rust and Haskell. Microsoft's deepest decoupling from OpenAI to date.
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