GitHub added an 'ai_credits_used' field to its Copilot usage metrics API, allowing enterprise admins to track per-user AI consumption. The metric is intended for budget and adoption signals but risks …
Microsoft's threat intelligence team attributed a supply chain attack targeting the Mastra AI ecosystem to North Korean state-sponsored hacking group Sapphire Sleet (BlueNoroff). The attackers comprom…
A developer released EGC (Extended Global Context), a local runtime that gives AI coding tools persistent memory across sessions. EGC saves decisions, failures, and preferences at the end of each sess…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots are not friends or conscious beings, cautioning against treating them as sentient interlocutors. She expressed concerns about granting syste…
Microsoft shifted GitHub Copilot and Copilot Cowork to usage-based billing in June 2026, replacing flat fees with token consumption as agentic AI workloads can consume up to 1,000 times more tokens th…
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warned that AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude are not friends or conscious beings, cautioning against granting them pervasive access to personal data. She critici…
A developer built Agent Rigor, an open-source framework that enforces strict empirical discipline on autonomous AI coding agents to prevent the 'Doom Loop' where agents degrade a codebase through repe…
A controlled trial by research group METR found that experienced developers using AI coding tools were 19% slower at fixing real issues in their own codebases, despite feeling faster. Independent rese…
WhatsKept, a new open-source tool, extracts and decrypts WhatsApp history from iOS backups into a searchable local database that AI coding agents can query directly. The Go-based binary handles backup…
GitHub Copilot code review now reads AGENTS.md files at the repository root to shape pull request reviews, effective June 18. The feature is available across all Copilot plans and builds on an agentic…
GitHub shipped a feature on June 17 allowing repository maintainers to cap open pull requests per contributor without write access, responding to a flood of AI-generated PRs that has overwhelmed open-…
A 16-year-old developer built FolioDux, an open-source file-mapping standard that reduces token usage in AI-assisted development by providing a compact index of a project's structure. Instead of feedi…
Most companies integrate AI into development by giving developers AI assistants without changing their process, leading to review bottlenecks. The author proposes shifting engineering work to spec-dri…
A developer argues that AI tools like Copilot and ChatGPT did not kill the joy of coding; rather, they exposed a pre-existing rot in software development culture. The pressure to ship fast and treat v…
Multiple major tech companies, including Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are struggling with their AI strategies, wasting billions of dollars without clear vision or execution. Meta's AI resea…
Norway will ban generative AI for elementary school students aged 6-13 starting in late August, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre announced. Students aged 14-16 may use AI only under teacher supervision…
GitHub published a blog post detailing Qubot, an internal data analytics agent powered by Copilot that allows employees to query company data using natural language. The post serves as an engineering …
GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API now reports AI credits consumed per user per day, enabling enterprise administrators and organization owners to track consumption alongside usage data. The new `ai_c…
Spec-driven development is an emerging workflow where developers first write a detailed specification before allowing AI coding agents to generate code, reversing the typical prompt-to-code approach. …
GitHub built Qubot, an internal Copilot-powered analytics agent that allows employees to ask questions about data in plain language via Slack, VS Code, and Copilot CLI. The agent uses a federated cont…