GitHub Mobile now lets users fix pull request merge conflicts using Copilot cloud agent directly from the mobile app. The feature allows developers to tap 'Fix with Copilot' to generate a prefilled pr…
Microsoft has begun routing a significant share of Copilot prompts in Excel and Outlook to its own MAI models, reducing reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic to cut inference costs. The move, effective Jul…
GitHub added two new code-review velocity metrics to the Copilot usage metrics API: median time to first review and median number of review cycles per merged pull request, broken down by AI adoption p…
Perplexity AI's global web traffic share dropped to 1.3% in May 2026 from 2.0% in March, while its US daily active user share collapsed 65% from October 2025 to March 2026, as Google Gemini and other …
Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption remains below 4.5% of the 450 million commercial customer base, with only 1% using it weekly, according to an industry report. The low uptake comes despite Microsoft int…
Anthropic published a post-mortem on Claude Code degradation, tracing quality issues to compounding changes including a reasoning effort downgrade and a caching bug. GitHub moved Copilot to usage-base…
Microsoft is replacing costly AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in Excel and Outlook to save money, as tens of thousands of weekly prompts are now handled in-house. The shift…
OfficeCLI is an open-source, single-binary tool that provides a command-line interface for AI agents to read, write, and verify Microsoft Office documents without dependencies. It supports Word, Excel…
Security researchers at Noma Labs discovered a prompt injection vulnerability in GitHub's Agentic Workflows, dubbed GitLost, that allows attackers to trick AI agents into leaking private repository da…
GitHub announced on July 7, 2026, that its standalone Copilot desktop app is now available on every Copilot plan, including Free and Education, across macOS, Windows, and Linux. The move broadens acce…
Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook, with tens of thousands of queries per week already running through them. AI chief…
Microsoft has begun replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own in-house MAI models in some app features, prioritizing cost and data residency. The shift is incremental, with OpenAI and Anthrop…
Microsoft is offering a lifetime license for Windows 11 Pro at $9.97 (MSRP $199) through July 19, unlocking features like BitLocker encryption, Hyper-V virtualization, and Copilot AI tools. The deal t…
GitHub's 2022 experiment found Copilot made developers 55% faster on a scoped task, but a 2025 METR trial with experienced maintainers on real tasks found AI tools made them 19% slower. The discrepanc…
A developer argues that focusing on token optimization for AI agents is a distraction from the real cost drivers, which are agentic loops involving multiple subagents and long-horizon execution. The d…
Microsoft Corp. has begun replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in Excel and Outlook to reduce costs. Tens of thousands of AI prompts in these applications are now hand…
Software engineering is entering a new era where code generation by AI agents requires a new discipline called harness engineering. The gap between an agent saying 'done' and actual completion erodes …
Workers are increasingly using AI to communicate with each other, leading to absurd situations where AI-generated messages are sent back and forth between colleagues. One employee told Fortune she bel…
A developer released Atrophy, a command-line app that measures whether AI assistance is eroding users' unaided coding skills by regularly assigning coding exercises without AI help and tracking skill …
A developer argues that AI tools accelerate development but do not replace human judgment, emphasizing that AI cannot compensate for missing conceptual design. The developer warns that AI amplifies ex…