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After nearly four years as CEO, I’m leaving GitHub to become a startup founder again. With more than 1B repos and forks, 150M+ developers, and Copilot continuing to lead the most thriving market in AI with 20M users and counting, GitHub has never been stronger than it is today.”” / X https://x.com/ashtom/status/1954920157853172064

GitHub just got less independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

GPT-5 is now available in Copilot! Use Smart Mode to get the best AI system to date across all Copilot markets and surfaces. Free to try, right now. https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1953505146828366125

Copilot Labs: Discover experimental AI initiatives https://copilot.microsoft.com/labs/experiments/copilot-3d

Guillermo Rauch says instead of fearing AI, they embraced it and built V0, a text-to-app tool. Inspired by using Copilot, he saw this as the next big shift in AI and acted early. Since launching V0, its growth has been massive, and it’s reshaping who can build software. Now, https://x.com/WesRothMoney/status/1953486296611238221

Microsoft Is Trying to Poach Meta AI Talent, Documents Show – Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-trying-poach-meta-ai-talent-big-pay-packages2025-8

As someone who lived/worked through the decade-long plateau of AI development not that long ago…it was worth the wait”” / X https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1955324641213587579

Copilot Mode, on the other hand, doesn’t replace your default search flow. Instead, it works alongside it.”” Built for how your brain actually works – and it’s free for a limited time in @MicrosoftEdge. Access instructions below (and yes, it has GPT-5) https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1955009697284850071

Update on this: the reason Microsoft (and probably Amazon) were so much worse at serving gpt-oss is that they ignored reasoning effort setting and stuck with the default medium one. The numbers make sense for that hypothesis, and someone from MS confirmed in the comments that”” / X https://x.com/giffmana/status/1955710876528599217

What a day. 100% of @Copilot users have GPT-5.”” / X https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1953608045533204690

You might notice something new in Copilot Labs today… https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1953845057389478255

As AI models get commoditized, the value will be added in that final layer of orchestration. Not just routing to just one “”best”” model, but coordinating multiple models to combine strengths and create Chain of Debate.”” / X https://x.com/mustafasuleyman/status/1954956981330120832

Somewhat related to the data constraints: I’m not a huge fan of synthetic data because we are doing it wrong and you can feel it when using Phi models or the newer OpenAI models, especially the open source ones. The synthetic data is too clean and uniform. It makes the models”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1954689516314435767

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