april-2026

Alibaba released Qwen3.6 Plus on April 2, 2026, featuring a 1 million token context window at $0.50 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens. The model combines linear attention with sparse mixture-of-experts routing to achieve a 78.8 score on SWE-bench Verified, with significant improvements in agentic coding, front-end development, and reasoning tasks.

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.