: Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us.
Remember what we promised when you subscribed for a year? Well, we've got a new deal that's better for us.Microsoft's GitHub has stopped accepting new Copilot individual subscriptions while the code hosting biz figures out how it can meet its service commitments without breaking the bank.
The code locker has paused signups for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans, wrote Joe Binder, VP of product, in a"Agentic workflows have fundamentally changed Copilot's compute demands," said Binder."Long-running, parallelized sessions now regularly consume far more resources than the original plan structure was built to support. "As Copilot's agentic capabilities have expanded rapidly, agents are doing more work, and more customers are hitting usage limits designed to maintain service reliability. Without further action, service quality degrades for everyone." Microsoft didn’t say why it needs to implement this pause, but February’s surge of enthusiasm for OpenClaw seemingly caught AI infrastructure providers unprepared for rising demand and struggling to keep up.lost business to Google Cloud last year due to inability to meet AI demand. And Microsoft Azure has been having The tech industry spent last year talking up software agents. But the infrastructure to support the proliferation of autonomous software and AI workloads remains a work in progress, and work on some of the data centers being built to handle the load has. And now with Anthropic and OpenAI looking to go public, the leading model-makers are under pressure to make smaller losses – making expensive datacenter builds less appetizing.AI is reshaping Britain's datacenter map away from London Now, as part of GitHub's cost cutting and service realignment, Binder said the operation will tighten usage limits for individual plans. GitHub Copilot imposes two forms of usage throttling: session and weekly limits, which are tied to token consumption and a model-specific multiplier. Session limits, according to Binder, help ensure that models remain available during peak usage. GitHub will be adjusting these"to balance reliability and demand," he said. Exceeding a session limit means waiting until the usage window resets before Copilot can be used again. Weekly limits cap the number of tokens a user can consume within a week. They were introduced, according to Binder,"to control for parallelized, long-trajectory requests that often run for extended periods of time and result in prohibitively high costs.", which is any interaction the user has with Copilot, as opposed to per token. That flat rate – modified by model multipliers – can still end up costing Microsoft more than the company charges if the request ends up sending the backend model down an unexpectedly long chain of thought.As part of the transition toward more sustainable business practices, Binder said that Anthropic's Opus 4.5 and 4.6 models will be removed from Pro+ subscriptions. Opus 4.7, launched last week, will be available to Pro+, Teams, and Enterprise customers, in conjunction with a 7.5× premium request multiplier as part of promotional pricing until April 30th. The discontinued Opus 4.6 incurred a 3x premium. So the new option is more costly, at least on paper – although there may be processing efficiencies that help balance the higher cost for certain kinds of requests. Copilot Pro and Pro+ subscribers have until May 20th to seek a refund if they're unhappy with the changes. That would be almost everyoneLinux 7.1 will have an optional new NTFS driverYou too can build a nuclear battery from junk you have lying around the houseOne of Europe's sovereign cloud picks may not be so-sovereign after all
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