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#model-routing
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CodexBar 0.66 expands provider plugins and protects local configurationThe release brings the application to 84 providers, including Vercel AI Gateway and several additional model services. It also prevents CLI configuration writes from deleting plugin settings and secrets, while reducing repeated background cache work.→GitHub Copilot Auto adds explicit cost-and-quality tiersThe tiers change how Copilot weighs cost, quality and response time while retaining per-prompt model selection. The feature is rolling out in Visual Studio Code, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app.→GitHub Copilot CLI adds model fallback and proxy-bound Linux sandboxesThe v1.0.83-2 pre-release lets custom agents declare an ordered list of models and enforce a required model policy, and adds support for Claude Fable 5.1. It also restricts Linux sandbox network egress to a configured proxy, with additional host requirements for proxy mode.→Google Cloud adds budget controls and usage-based pricing to Gemini EnterpriseGoogle Cloud is adding a pay-as-you-go option to Gemini Enterprise alongside per-seat subscriptions and letting customers set monthly project limits that pause an agent’s API calls when budgets are exhausted. Google also announced term discounts and a planned off-peak option that could cut token costs by up to 50%, making cost governance part of the product’s on-ramp.→Glean launches Tau enterprise desktop AI experienceGlean launched Glean Tau at its Glean:GO conference, extending its enterprise context and controls to work across local files, applications and code. The company also reported a benchmark in which Glean used 81% fewer tokens and was preferred 78% of the time against Claude Cowork, though those comparisons were vendor-run rather than independent evaluations.→Stripe reportedly agrees to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billionTechCrunch, citing Bloomberg, reported that Stripe had finalised a deal worth more than $7 billion for OpenRouter. OpenRouter provides access to more than 400 models and reported 8 million users.→Cursor’s coding agents degraded when using non-fast Grok 4.6Cursor’s status API recorded the incident at 09:32:24 UTC, affecting Automations, CLI, Cloud Agents, cursor.com and the IDE. Cursor said users could see slowness and high error rates, while other models were unaffected, and marked the incident resolved at 13:40:26 UTC.→