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Copilot Usage Metrics Just Got Less Wrong — Now Admins Need to Relearn Their Baselines

Copilot Usage Metrics Just Got Less Wrong — Now Admins Need to Relearn Their Baselines

GitHub made Copilot usage metrics more accurate, which is good news in the same way a scale getting calibrated is good news: useful, necessary, and immediately dangerous if everyone forgets the baseline changed. The June 15 update adds server-side telemetry to Copilot reports, so enterprise dashboards will include more active

GitHub Code Quality GA Turns AI Review Into a Three-Part Bill

GitHub Code Quality GA Turns AI Review Into a Three-Part Bill

GitHub Code Quality is leaving preview, and the feature announcement is not the part engineering leaders should read twice. The pricing model is. On July 20, 2026, GitHub turns Code Quality into a paid product that combines a per-committer subscription, AI-credit consumption, and GitHub Actions minutes. That is not a

SpaceX Buying Cursor Is the Clearest Sign Yet That Grok Build Is Not Just a Side Quest

SpaceX Buying Cursor Is the Clearest Sign Yet That Grok Build Is Not Just a Side Quest

SpaceX buying Cursor for an implied $60 billion is easy to misread as another entry in the Elon Musk mega-deal ledger. The more useful read is narrower and more important for developers: xAI is buying the workflow layer Grok Build does not yet own. The June 16 SEC filing says

Pixel Drop Shows Google’s Gemini Strategy: Put Creation Tools Where the Camera Roll Already Is

Pixel Drop Shows Google’s Gemini Strategy: Put Creation Tools Where the Camera Roll Already Is

Google’s June Pixel Drop is easy to misread as a laundry list: Screen Reactions, Gemini Omni video editing, Gemini music generation, Android 17 Bubbles, Magic Cue in Snapchat, Voice Translate on Pixel 10a, AirDrop-compatible Quick Share, Ask Photos in more European markets, call-screening updates, emergency-contact automation. Product people love

Android 17 Turns Gemini Into a Platform Contract, Not Just an Assistant

Android 17 Turns Gemini Into a Platform Contract, Not Just an Assistant

Android 17’s loudest features are the ones users will notice first: Bubbles, Screen Reactions, foldable improvements, tighter security, better memory behavior. Fine. The developer story is sharper: Google is turning Android apps into callable capability surfaces for Gemini and other agents. That is a much bigger shift than “Gemini

DeepMind’s Planning Prototype Is Gemini Doing Bureaucracy — Exactly Where Agents Get Tested

Google DeepMind’s newest public-sector AI project is not a chatbot trying to sound clever. It is Gemini pointed at bureaucracy: PDFs, maps, consultation letters, local policy, precedents, missing fields, draft reports, and the thousand tiny frictions that turn a householder planning application into a slow queue. That is precisely