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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)

Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog:
GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits  —  Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits.  —  TL;DR: Today, we are announcing that all GitHub Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026.

The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are "unwarranted intervention" (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The EU unveils new proposals under the DMA aimed at opening up Android to rivals' AI services; Google says the measures are “unwarranted intervention”  —  Google was targeted by European Union watchdogs who unveiled a slate of proposals aimed at prising open its Android ecosystem to rivals' AI services.

More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)

Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post:
More than 600 Google employees, including many from DeepMind, sign a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding he bar the DOD from using Google's AI for classified work  —  “We want to see AI benefit humanity; not to see it being used in inhumane or extremely harmful ways,” Google employees wrote.  —  Summary

Kashable, which lets companies offer "socially responsible" credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News:
Kashable, which lets companies offer “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees as a voluntary benefit, raised a $60M Series C  —  Kashable, a fintech that provides access to “socially responsible” credit and financial wellness programs for employees …

PocketOS founder Jer Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a production database when it was working in a staging environment (Jer/@lifeof_jer)

Jer / @lifeof_jer:
PocketOS founder Jer Crane says a Cursor agent running Claude Opus 4.6 accidentally deleted a production database when it was working in a staging environment  —  An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing.