Xbox is "winding down Copilot on mobile" and "will stop development of Copilot on console," new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The move follows Sharma's reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft's CoreAI team - where Sharma worked before taking over Xbox - to the Xbox side of the company.
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Xbox needs to move faster, deepen our connection with the community, and address friction for both players and developers.
Today, we promoted leaders who helped build Xbox, while also bringing in new voices to help push us forward. This balance is important as we get th …
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The next update to Apple's operating systems could allow users to choose their preferred AI model for running Apple Intelligence. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to allow third-party chatbots to power its AI features system-wide in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, all expected for this fall. In addition to running Siri, compatible third-party AI models, called "Extensions," will also now be able to run other Apple Intelligence features like Writing Tools and Image Playground.
According to Gurman, Apple will also allow users to choose different Siri voices for different AI models - Siri responses from one of Apple's …
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella last week announced that the company now has more than 20 million enterprise users paying for Microsoft Copilot, according to TechCrunch. That’s up 33% from the 15 million paying customers Microsoft claimed in January.
The AI assistant is now directly integrated in programs such as Word, Excel, and Outlook and Microsoft is rolling out new agent features that allow Copilot to perform multiple steps automatically directly within documents and presentations.
According to Nadella, the number of questions asked of Copilot per user rose by nearly 20% compared to the previous quarter. Weekly usage is now reportedly on par with the Outlook email service.
Microsoft says one advantage for Copilot is that it is no longer locked to a single provider of AI models. In addition to OpenAI’s GPT models, it now also supports models such as Anthropic’s Claude.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella used the company’s quarterly earnings call to push back against skepticism on two fronts: the real-world adoption of its Copilot AI tools, and the strategic implications of its revised OpenAI partnership. On Copilot, Nadella reported 20 million paid enterprise seats for Microsoft 365 Copilot, with the number of companies holding more […]
The threat actor seeding the Open VSX code marketplace with fraudulent extensions that download the GlassWorm malware has uploaded 73 more impersonated links, as its attempt to infect software supply chains continues.
Philipp Burckhardt, head of threat intelligence at Socket, which revealed the latest activity, called it a “significant escalation” in the gang’s activity, after it added 72 malicious extensions last month.
The extensions impersonate trusted developer tools. More recently, the listed extensions contain benign code so they will evade malware scanners. Later, after connecting automatically to newly-created GitHub or other public accounts, they download GlassWorm to developers’ computers as an update. This latest wave includes some extensions that rely on bundled native binaries.
“The extension itself acts as a thin loader,” Socket explained in its report. “By shifting critical logic outside of what tools typically scan, and spreading it across multiple delivery mechanisms,
GitHub is moving its Copilot coding assistant to a usage-based billing model, replacing fixed subscription pricing with consumption-based charges as demand for AI-driven development workloads increases.
The change, announced in a company blog, will take effect on June 1 and will apply to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise plans. Under the new model, usage will be measured through “AI credits,” reflecting the compute resources consumed during interactions with the service.
“Today, we are announcing that all GitHub Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026,” Mario Rodriguez, GitHub’s Chief Product Officer, wrote in the blog post. “Instead of counting premium requests, every Copilot plan will include a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits, with the option for paid plans to purchase additional usage.”
There will be no change to base subscription prices, and every plan will include a monthly allotment of credits matched to its price, and once that allot
