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GitHub pulls Copilot "feature" after it added advertising to more than 11,000 pull requests​

Controversy highlights the risks of AI altering user content​


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GitHub pulls Copilot "feature" after it added advertising to more than 11,000 pull requests

"Quickly spin up Copilot coding agents from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast," the note said, accompanied by a lightning bolt emoji and a...
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The product managers comment is quite funny in that article.

Let me insert ads into PRs to help developers find new ways to do things, not to help generate revenue for Copilot.
 
Looks like Oracle is also feeling the pain with the AI Bubble about to burst as well...

Your alarm goes off at 6 AM. There's an email from "Oracle Leadership." You've never gotten a message from that sender before. It says your job is gone, today is your last day, and severance details will arrive by DocuSign. By the time you finish reading, your company laptop is already locked.

This happened to up to 30,000 Oracle employees this morning. Oracle reported $17.2 billion in revenue last quarter, its best in 15 years. And it still fired nearly 1 in 5 of its people. The stock went up 6% today.

Oracle owes over $108 billion. The company signed a $156 billion deal to build AI data centers over five years, mostly for OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT). That requires buying roughly 3 million specialized computer chips. Two years ago, Oracle spent $6.9 billion a year on this kind of construction. This year it's $50 billion.

The 30,000 people who got that email are funding the gap. Investment bank TD Cowen estimates the layoffs will free up $8 to $10 billion in cash flow, money going straight into chips and construction. Oracle filed a $2.1 billion restructuring plan with regulators in March, and nearly $1 billion had already been spent before the emails went out.

Lenders are getting nervous. The cost to insure Oracle's debt against default has spiked to levels last seen during the 2009 financial crisis. Barclays downgraded Oracle's debt in November, warning the company is one step from "junk" status, the point where lenders consider you a serious default risk. Some banks have stopped lending to Oracle for these projects altogether.

The gamble gets worse. CNBC reported on March 9 that OpenAI, Oracle's biggest customer for all of this, is already looking at newer, faster chips from Nvidia. Oracle ordered the current generation and spent billions building out a massive Texas facility. OpenAI may not fully expand into it. The chips improve faster than the buildings go up.

Larry Ellison, Oracle's founder, owns 41% of the company. In September 2025, Oracle's stock hit $346, and Ellison briefly became the richest person alive at $393 billion. Today, the stock sits around $146. His fortune has dropped to roughly $201 billion in six months.

Oracle is spending borrowed money to build data centers that could be outdated before they're finished, for a customer already shopping for newer equipment. 30,000 people woke up to a 6 AM email because that's what it costs to fund a $156 billion bet when your lenders are running out of patience.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2039066982838833423
 
Looks like Microslop is trying to cover all of their bases with the integration of Anthropic, ChatGPT & Copilot in Microsoft 365... 🤡:p

Microsoft just made Anthropic the quality inspector on OpenAI's assembly line. And the reason has nothing to do with research quality.

M365 Copilot has 450 million commercial subscribers. 15 million pay for it. That's a 3.3% conversion rate after two years and $150 billion in cumulative AI infrastructure spending.

The core problem is trust. When employees get access to both Copilot and ChatGPT, 76% choose ChatGPT. The hallucination risk on business documents is the single biggest objection CFOs raise at renewal. Microsoft needed a way to say "this output has been verified" without building the verification model themselves.

So they built Critique. GPT writes the research report. Claude reviews it for accuracy, completeness, and citation integrity before the user sees it. One model generates, another audits. Microsoft says it beats every standalone deep research tool on the DRACO benchmark by 13.8%.

The architecture reveals the strategy. Microsoft doesn't care which model is best. Microsoft cares that 3.3% becomes 33%. The E7 tier launching May 1 at $99/user/month bundles Copilot with identity management and agent tools. Critique is the trust layer that justifies the price increase to every CFO who blocked the last renewal.

The wildest part: Microsoft is paying Anthropic to make OpenAI's output trustworthy enough to charge $30/month for. And Anthropic is taking the money because being the default auditor inside 450 million enterprise seats is worth more than any benchmark win.

Microsoft said the workflow will eventually be bidirectional. Claude drafting, GPT reviewing. That tells you the endgame. The model becomes a commodity. The orchestration layer is the product. And Microsoft owns the orchestration layer.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2038836203752141085
 
Looks like MS Edge is FORCING its way back as the 'default browser' on boot-up in Windows 11...

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Microsoft is testing a change in Edge that automatically launches the browser every time you sign into Windows 11, without asking permission first. A banner appears after the fact informing users that Edge now starts with Windows and offering an opt-out. The change is currently in Edge beta and appears to be a phased rollout.

Microsoft has been pushing Edge as the default browser since Windows 11 launched in 2021, including previously blocking registry hacks users were using to change default app behavior.

My Take

Microsoft has been trying to make Edge happen since 2021 and the browser has not become dominant despite being bundled with every Windows installation on the planet. At some point the honest conclusion is that people who want to use Edge are already using it and the ones who aren't have made a deliberate choice.

Starting a browser automatically on every login without asking is not a feature, it is a resource consumption tax on users who already said no.

This fits with what Microsoft has been doing more generally. Copilot injected into GitHub pull requests without disclosure. Recall screenshots being uploaded to servers. Now a browser auto-launching on startup by default.

Each individual decision has a product rationale behind it but collectively they describe a company that has decided the path to engagement is removing the ability to say no rather than building something people want to use.

Given that Microsoft is having its worst start to a year this century and needs to show returns on billions in AI investment, the pressure to monetize attention wherever it can be captured is understandable. That does not make it less annoying.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/2039827716019749302
 
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