##the newsroom 03
- 07-26 A checkpoint before the tool call: 'agent-safe by design' is becoming a category
In two weeks at least five teams shipped the same primitive — a policy gate between an AI agent and an irreversible action — and independent research is now naming it. The category is forming; the positioning window is open.
- 07-23 GitHub's Copilot dashboard now counts the seats nobody uses
A new enterprise dashboard sorts Copilot seats into adoption-phase cohorts and breaks out a "Passive" segment — GitHub productizing the adoption story its buyers are being asked to prove.
- 07-22 GitHub Code Quality shipped the default AI price: a seat, plus a meter
GitHub Code Quality went GA at $10 per committer a month with metered AI billing on top — the same seat-plus-meter shape Copilot and CodeRabbit already charge, now extended from writing code to reviewing it.