Visual Studio Magazine

Special Embrace? VS Code Adapts to Claude Code's Ecosystem

Reflecting a broader trend of Microsoft embracing Claude AI, recent VS Code updates show the company accommodating Claude Code beyond model selection, with support for Claude-specific instruction ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Devs Sound Off on Usage-Based Copilot Pricing Change: 'You Will Get Less, but Pay the Same Price'

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, prompting user concerns about predictability, model access, monthly credit limits and whether unchanged plan prices will translate into ...

GitHub will start charging Copilot users based on their actual AI usage

GitHub has announced that it will be shifting to a usage-based billing model for its GitHub Copilot AI service starting on ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft open-sources VS Code Copilot Chat extension on GitHub

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...
Windows Report

Visual Studio Code Update Adds Remote Copilot Control and Enterprise AI Restrictions

VS Code 1.118 adds remote Copilot control, enterprise AI restrictions, and smarter caching while improving developer ...
Hosted on MSN

GitHub to use Copilot interaction data for AI model training

GitHub Copilot, however useful it may be, ruffled some feathers when it emerged given that it was trained partly on code hosted on GitHub already. Fast forward to 2026, and the Microsoft-owned ...
WinBuzzer

GitHub Moves Copilot to Usage-Based Billing June 1

GitHub Copilot will switch to usage-based billing on June 1, keeping base plan prices but adding AI credit overages that ...