The Model Is the Data—and That Changes Everything

For years, artificial intelligence has been sold as something close to magic. Feed it enough data, train a sufficiently complex model, and intelligence will emerge. Predictions improve. Decisions accelerate. The system “learns.” That story is convenient. It’s also increasingly misleading. The dominant architecture of AI today assumes a clean separation: data is raw material, models…

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GitHub shifts Copilot to usage-based billing, signaling a new cost model for enterprise AI tools

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…

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Xiaomi releases MIT‑licensed MiMo models for long‑running AI agents

Xiaomi has released and open-sourced MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, giving developers another potentially lower-cost option for building AI agents that can run longer tasks such as coding and workflow automation. Both models support a 1-million-token context window, the company said. MiMo-V2.5-Pro is designed for complex agent and coding tasks, while MiMo-V2.5 is…

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OpenAI’s Symphony spec pushes coding agents from prompts to orchestration

OpenAI has released Symphony, an open-source specification for turning issue trackers such as Linear into control planes for Codex coding agents. Instead of asking an AI tool for help with one coding problem at a time, Symphony is designed to let agents pick up work from an issue tracker, run in separate workspaces, monitor CI,…

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