Copilot, Gemini, and Vercel Updates #65

July 2, 2026 — 3 min read

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GitHub made Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 generally available in GitHub Copilot on 2026-06-30.
The model is positioned for everyday coding tasks across the IDE, CLI, and agentic workflows.
GitHub said internal testing showed strong coding results, especially on CLI-style tasks.
GitHub also cited strong prompt-cache utilization and competitive latency at lower effort levels.
Access is rolling out to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans.
Model selection is available in Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Xcode, Eclipse, and github.com.
The rollout also covers Copilot CLI, GitHub Copilot cloud agent, Copilot App, and GitHub Mobile on iOS and Android.
Business and Enterprise admins can enable the model through Copilot model policy settings.
Claude Sonnet 5 uses Zero Data Retention in Copilot and is billed at provider list pricing under Usage Based Billing.

Source: github.blog

Google published an official post on June 30, 2026 announcing Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash for developers.
The announcement frames both releases as builder-facing model updates rather than a consumer product launch.
Nano Banana 2 Lite is presented as a lighter variant in the Nano Banana line.
Gemini Omni Flash is introduced alongside the update, indicating a paired multimodal rollout in the Gemini model stack.
The source materials also reference Gemini Image, suggesting image-generation or image-related workflow relevance within the same release context.
Google and Google DeepMind are the primary entities attached to the announcement.
No pricing, quota, or regional availability details are provided in the supplied source extract.

Source: blog.google
More: techcrunch.com · news.hada.io · gigazine.net

Vercel introduced support for deploying any HTTP server from a `Dockerfile.vercel`, with build, image storage, rollout, and autoscaling handled on Fluid Compute.
The setup requires the service to listen on `$PORT`, which defaults to `80`; Vercel's example uses a two-stage Go build with `golang:1.24-alpine` and `alpine:3.20`.
Deployments run through the Vercel CLI, and each Git push rebuilds the image and creates a fresh preview URL; manual deploys without a commit are also supported.
Containers run as first-class workloads alongside frontend apps and other services on the same platform, with private networking, shared domains, and built-in logs, traces, and metrics.
Vercel says images are stored as optimized boot images that can be streamed and decompressed on demand, so request handling can begin before the full image download completes.
Compute billing follows Fluid Compute's active CPU model, so charges apply to execution time rather than wall-clock idle time.
The current model is stateless between requests, with persistent state expected to live in external services such as databases or caches from Vercel Marketplace; durable storage for containers is still in development.

Source: vercel.com

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