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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The front-end architecture trilemma: Reactivity vs. hypermedia vs. local-first apps

While the software development industry has been gorging on large language models (LLMs), the front-end ecosystem has quietly fractured into three competing but interrelated architectural paradigms. Between the dominance of reactive frameworks, the hypermedia-driven simplicity of true REST, and the decentralized resilience of SQL everywhere, developers are no longer just choosing a library, they are…

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Enterprise AI is missing the business core

One of the more dangerous assumptions in the current AI market is that broad adoption means meaningful adoption. It does not. Much of what enterprises call AI transformation is, in fact, AI experimentation focused at the edge of the business, in systems and workflows that support employees but are not central to how the enterprise…

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