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GitHub will use Copilot interaction data from Free, Pro, and Pro+ plan users to train AI models starting April 24, 2026, unless users actively opt out. The policy does not affect Copilot Business and Enterprise customers. Data shared will include prompts, outputs, code snippets, filenames, and repository structures.

Microsoft's superintelligence team, led by Mustafa Suleyman, has released MAI-Image-2, a text-to-image generator that currently ranks third on the Arena.ai leaderboard for text-to-image models, behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-1.5 and Google's Nano Banana 2. The model is now available for testing in the MAI Playground and will roll out to Copilot and Bing Image Creator, with API access opening to all developers through Microsoft Foundry.

GitHub has removed premium AI models including GPT-5.4, Claude Opus, and Claude Sonnet from its free Copilot Student plan effective March 12, 2026. The change leaves students with access only to lower-cost models: Claude 4.5 Haiku, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT-5.3 Codex. GitHub's decision triggered 2,874 downvotes versus 21 upvotes on the announcement, with students arguing they need premium models to learn industry-standard tools.

Google announced Gemini 3.1 Pro, positioning the model for complex problem-solving tasks requiring deeper reasoning than previous versions. The release follows Gemini 3 Pro (November 2025) and Gemini 3 Flash (December 2025).