Microsoft Ends Claude Code Licenses As It Shifts Developers To Copilot

Microsoft ends Claude Code licenses and shifts developers to its in‑house Copilot model, signaling a strategic move toward AI ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code 1.125 Adds Copilot Spend Meter After Billing Shock

VS Code 1.125 adds in-editor visibility into additional Copilot budget usage as GitHub's AI-credit billing model continues to draw developer scrutiny.

Microsoft pulls Claude Code licenses, shifts engineers to GitHub Copilot CLI amid rising AI costs

According to The Verge, Claude Code became "perhaps a little too popular" inside Microsoft, with many engineers regularly favouring Anthropic's offering over Microsoft's own Copilot CLI.
InfoWorld

Using Visual Studio Code’s ‘air-gapped’ AI model mode

Visual Studio Code 1.122 introduced a new feature, “ Use BYOK [Bring Your Own Key] without a GitHub sign-in ,” that allows ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS Code Keeps Eye on Costs in v1.126 Update

Visual Studio Code 1.126 adds session-level Copilot cost information, continuing Microsoft's recent focus on helping developers monitor and manage usage-based GitHub Copilot billing.

Claude Code, Copilot and Codex all got hacked. Every attacker went for the credential, not the model.

Six teams exploited Claude Code, Copilot, Codex, and Vertex AI in nine months. Every attack hit runtime credentials that IAM tools never tracked.
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Why Microsoft is betting on internal AI tools over Anthropic’s Claude Code

Microsoft scales back Claude Code for engineers, shifts focus to GitHub Copilot CLI, balancing standardisation, costs, and ...