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GitHub is making one of its most consequential Copilot policy changes yet, and this time the company is being unusually direct about what it plans to do with user data. Beginning on April 24, 2026, GitHub says it will use interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ accounts to train and...

Paul Thurrott’s site has quietly—and unambiguously—reasserted that the content it publishes is proprietary and intended for personal, non‑commercial use only, explicitly forbidding automated scraping, bulk copying, and any reuse that would act as a “source of or substitute for the Service.”...

Alibaba’s consumer Qwen chat has quietly graduated from “research demo” to a transaction‑enabled assistant, and at the same moment the Wikimedia Foundation is re‑casting Wikipedia as a paid data partner for major AI labs — two linked developments that reveal how generative AI is evolving from...