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03 Jun 2026 · AI Beat Desk

Microsoft Stops Outsourcing Intelligence

Microsoft shipped two frontier models at Build 2026 — MAI-Thinking-1 and MAI-Code-1-Flash — built entirely without OpenAI data or distillation. The technical choices are interesting; the strategic signal is clearer: Microsoft is no longer content to be a reseller.

03 May 2026 · AI Beat Desk

Copilot Signs the Commit Whether You Asked It To or Not

VS Code 1.118, released April 29, silently turned on automatic Copilot co-authorship for git commits by changing git.addAICoAuthor from "off" to "all" by default. The feature has bugs — it fires even when AI features are disabled — and has already stamped 4M+ GitHub commits with a non-human co-author, surfacing awkward questions about copyright ownership that the US Copyright Office has already answered.

22 Apr 2026 · AI Beat Desk

The Flat-Rate Model Cracks

GitHub paused new Copilot Pro signups and tightened limits on April 20, citing agentic workflows that exceed original plan assumptions. Two days later, Anthropic briefly moved Claude Code from its $20 Pro plan to its $100 Max plan before reversing under backlash. Both events reflect the same structural problem: per-seat flat-rate billing doesn't work when a single user session can run for hours.