WTF?! Microsoft's GitHub is rolling back a controversial update after developers discovered that its AI assistant, Copilot, was quietly inserting promotional messages into user-generated pull requests ...

Starting April 24, 2026, GitHub will introduce a major change to how it handles user data in GitHub Copilot. From that date forward, data collection for AI training will be enabled by default for most ...

Starting on April 24th, all GitHub Copilot interaction data including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train GitHub's AI ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

GitHub Copilot is an extremely powerful coding assistant that can be leveraged in multiple integrated development environments (IDEs). Its primary use involves code completion and generation through ...

Microsoft plans to change how GitHub Copilot uses your data, and this update directly affects how the tool learns from real users. The company will start training its AI models using interaction data ...

Microsoft is updating GitHub Copilot’s data usage policies to allow the AI to learn directly from user interactions, marking a shift away from relying primarily on public repositories and internal ...

A vulnerability in GitHub Codespaces could have been exploited by bad actors to seize control of repositories by injecting malicious Copilot instructions in a GitHub issue. The artificial intelligence ...

Attackers can inject malicious instructions in a GitHub Issue that are automatically processed by Copilot when launching a Codespace from that issue. A vulnerability in GitHub Codespaces could have ...

Amazon Q Developer outperformed GitHub Copilot Pro in some aspects, completing a complex editorial task in 5 minutes compared to Copilot's 15 minutes. While GitHub Copilot demonstrated superior ...

Copilot Pro includes a monthly allowance of premium requests, and premium-model usage can consume that allowance faster than expected (especially with agentic, multi-step workflows). When premium ...

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is officially here for GitHub Copilot, but you might need to flip a specific switch to see it on organization accounts. Microsoft has announced the availability of Anthropic’s Claude ...