SpaceX plans to acquire Anysphere, the operator of the Cursor AI coding agent, for $60 billion. This acquisition aims to enhance SpaceX's software development capabilities.

Fable 5's capabilities can be triggered by simple prompts like "fix this code," rather than requiring a jailbreak. This has raised concerns among federal officials regarding its potential misuse.

GitHub Copilot will transition to usage-based billing starting June 1, 2026. All plans will include a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits, with additional usage available for purchase, calculated based on token consumption.

An incident affecting multiple GitHub services has been resolved, with webhooks now operating normally. The degradation impacting Actions and Copilot has been mitigated, and monitoring is ongoing to ensure stability.

GitHub Copilot is pausing new sign-ups for Individual plans, tightening usage limits, and adjusting model availability to ensure a reliable experience for existing customers. These changes aim to protect the service quality for current users.

Anthropic's lead engineer Boris Cherny reported that Claude Code generated 100% of his contributions over the last thirty days, totaling 259 pull requests and 497 commits, with 40,000 lines added and 1.3 million views. A subsequent packaging mistake exposed 512,000 lines of Claude Code's source code to the public.

Top open-source maintainers report an increase in the usefulness of AI tools for development. Challenges remain, including legal issues and inconsistencies in AI outputs, but improvements in reliability are expected by the end of the year.

A .map file containing the full, readable source code of the Claude Code CLI tool was inadvertently shipped with Anthropic's npm package. The package has since been removed, but the code was widely mirrored and discussed on platforms like Hacker News.

GitHub has removed Copilot's feature that allowed it to insert advertisements, referred to as "tips," into pull requests after receiving backlash from developers. A product manager acknowledged that allowing Copilot to alter others' pull requests was a misjudgment.

GitHub will use interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve AI models starting April 24, unless users opt out. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users are not impacted by this policy change.