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Microsoft is ending GitHub Copilot's flat-rate subscription model in favor of token-based billing starting June 1. Some developers report monthly costs rising from approximately $29-50 to $750-3,000, while others claim the increases only affect inefficient "vibe-coders" who iterate excessively without clear direction.

Microsoft is rolling out a redesigned Microsoft 365 Copilot that loads twice as fast, according to the company. The update introduces "progressive disclosure" — showing tools and controls contextually based on prompts rather than displaying all options at once.

Microsoft has released Lens-Turbo, a 3.8B-parameter foundational text-to-image model designed for efficient training and fast generation. The model was trained on Lens-800M, an 800 million image-text corpus with GPT-4.1 captions, and supports resolutions up to 1440×1440 with 4-step distilled inference.

Microsoft Research has released Fara-7B, a 7-billion parameter small language model designed for computer automation tasks. The model, which took 2.5 days to train on 64 H100 GPUs, can navigate websites to complete tasks like booking restaurants and shopping, using screenshots as input with a 128K token context window.

Microsoft Edge mobile version 148 and higher integrates six AI-powered features from its desktop version, including the ability to summarize multiple tabs simultaneously, generate podcasts from web pages, and recall browsing history for continued conversations. The update also adds a Journeys feature that tracks research topics and a Study and Learn mode for interactive quizzes.

Microsoft is updating Edge to let Copilot read and analyze content across all open browser tabs simultaneously. The update includes AI-generated podcasts from tabs, study mode with quizzes, and long-term conversation memory.

AWS has added OpenAI's latest models, Codex, and a new managed agents service to its Bedrock platform, one day after OpenAI revised its agreement with Microsoft. The integration follows OpenAI's up-to-$50 billion deal with Amazon.

GitHub has paused new subscriptions for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans due to compute capacity constraints. The company cites agentic workflows as consuming significantly more resources than its original pricing structure anticipated, forcing tighter usage limits and a shift away from flat-rate billing.

GitHub has announced changes to its Copilot Individual subscription plans, citing the need for reliability and predictability for existing customers. The company has not yet disclosed specific details about pricing adjustments, feature modifications, or implementation timelines.

Microsoft has added track changes monitoring, comment management, and table of contents insertion to Copilot in Word. The features run on Microsoft's "Work IQ" adaptation layer and are currently available only through the Office Insiders Beta Channel Frontier program on Windows.

Microsoft is testing OpenClaw-style autonomous agents for 365 Copilot that would run continuously to complete tasks on behalf of users, according to The Information. The company plans to demonstrate some features at its Build conference on June 2nd.