GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on 'availability first, then capacity, then new features' (Vlad Fedorov/The GitHub Blog)

Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features” — Here's what we've done—and what we're still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.

GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits (Mario Rodriguez/The GitHub Blog)
Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ (The GitHub Blog)
GitHub says it has begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from command-line interface (CLI) users and enabled it by default (Brandon Vigliarolo/The Register)
Docs: Microsoft plans to eventually move GitHub Copilot from request- to token-based billing, as the week-over-week cost to run it has nearly doubled since Jan. (Edward Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's ...)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-28

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