Microsoft has issued a formal public denial that GitHub ever intended to run advertisements in pull requests — calling last week's Copilot "product tips" incident a "programming logic issue" rather than a deliberate ad product. When Melbourne developer Zach Manson's team asked Copilot

GitHub has officially announced that Claude Sonnet 4 will be deprecated across all Copilot experiences on May 1, 2026. The cutover covers the full breadth of Copilot integrations: Copilot Chat, inline edits, ask mode, agent mode, and code completions. The recommended migration path is Claude Sonnet 4.6. For individual

TechCrunch's deep-dive into OpenAI's $122 billion funding close surfaces the financial architecture behind the headline number. SoftBank co-led the round alongside Andreessen Horowitz, D.E. Shaw Ventures, MGX, TPG, and T. Rowe Price, while $3 billion came directly from retail investors via bank channels — an unusual

OpenAI has closed its largest funding round ever — $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation — with Amazon, Nvidia, SoftBank, Microsoft, and a wave of retail investors among the backers. Alongside the record capital raise, the company disclosed that ChatGPT now serves 900 million weekly users and that its ads pilot