#copilot

A Hacker News thread turned Zach Manson's Copilot incident into a broader argument about whether coding assistants should be allowed to insert vendor messaging into PR text and other repo metadata.

Microsoft said on March 9, 2026 that it is bundling Microsoft 365 Copilot, Agent 365, and its security stack into the new Microsoft 365 E7 Frontier Suite. The company also said Agent 365 will become generally available on May 1 for $15 per user, while E7 will launch the same day for $99 per user.

GitHub updated its Privacy Statement and Terms of Service on March 25, 2026 to allow training and product improvement on Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ interaction data. The changes take effect on April 24, while Copilot Business and Enterprise accounts are excluded.

GitHub now lets users mention <code>@copilot</code> in a pull request to request changes on that same PR. The company says Copilot coding agent handles the work in a cloud development environment, runs tests and linting, then pushes updates; pull requests from forks are not yet supported.

GitHub said on March 25, 2026 that Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ interaction data will be used for model training from April 24 unless users opt out. Hacker News pushed the post to 303 points and 143 comments, focusing attention on privacy, defaults, and the split between individual and business plans.

Microsoft has introduced Copilot Health as a separate, secure space inside Copilot for combining health records, wearable data, and health history. The company is starting with a waitlist and says the service will launch first in English for U.S. adults 18 and older.

GitHub has launched a public preview that lets teams assign Jira issues directly to the Copilot coding agent and receive AI-generated draft pull requests in GitHub. The company says the integration reduces context switching while preserving existing review and approval controls.

Microsoft said on March 9, 2026 that it is combining Copilot Wave 3, Agent 365, and broader model choice into a new Frontier Suite for enterprise AI. Agent 365 reaches general availability on May 1 at $15 per user, while Microsoft 365 E7 launches the same day at $99 per user.

On 2026-03-19, GitHub outlined Squad, an open-source GitHub Copilot project that initializes a preconfigured AI team inside a repository. The design matters because it packages routing, shared memory, and review separation into a repo-native workflow instead of relying on a separate orchestration stack.

GitHub said on March 20, 2026 that Copilot code review has surpassed 60 million reviews. The company’s March 5 blog says usage is up 10x since launch, now covers more than one in five code reviews on GitHub, and relies on an agentic architecture tuned for higher-signal feedback.

On March 18, 2026, GitHub introduced a long-term-support model policy for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, naming GPT-5.3-Codex as the first LTS model. GitHub says the model will remain available through February 4, 2027 and will become Copilot’s base model on May 17, 2026.

Microsoft said on Mar 17, 2026 that it is collapsing consumer and commercial Copilot into one operating structure. Jacob Andreou becomes EVP, Copilot, while Mustafa Suleyman concentrates on frontier models and the company’s superintelligence push.