Coding assistants

Xbox is winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop developing Copilot on console, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Tuesday. The decision came alongside a reorganization of the Xbox platform team that added executives from Microsoft's CoreAI team to the Xbox side of the company.

Microsoft says IT administrators can now uninstall the Microsoft Copilot app from enterprise Windows devices using the RemoveMicrosoftCopilotApp policy setting, available as a Policy CSP and Group Policy after the April 2026 Patch Tuesday updates. The policy applies only to Windows 11 25H2 devices where both Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft Copilot are installed, the user did not install the Microsoft Copilot app, and it has not been launched in 28 days.

GitHub has announced changes to Copilot Individual plans that tighten usage limits, pause signups for individual plans, and restrict Claude Opus 4.7 to the $39/month Pro+ plan while dropping the previous Opus models. The changes add token-based usage limits per session and per week, replacing the per-request charging model that the author says made agentic requests erode GitHub's margins. The author notes the announcement does not clearly say which of the many Copilot-branded products are affected, though the linked plans page suggests Copilot CLI, the Copilot cloud agent, code review, and the IDE features in VS Code, Zed and JetBrains.

Microsoft is reportedly testing ways to integrate OpenClaw-style features into its Copilot AI assistant, according to The Information. The goal is to let Microsoft 365 Copilot run autonomously around the clock while completing tasks for users. Omar Shahine, Microsoft's corporate vice president, confirmed the company is exploring OpenClaw-like technologies in an enterprise context.

Microsoft has started removing Copilot buttons from Windows 11 apps, as part of a plan to reduce what it calls unnecessary Copilot entry points. The latest Windows Insider build of Notepad replaces its Copilot button with a writing tools menu, and the Snipping Tool no longer shows a Copilot button when capturing an area. The underlying AI features are expected to remain.

Microsoft executive Judson Althoff told employees that sales of the Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on have gained traction after criticism of low adoption. Microsoft reported 15 million seats in January, representing 3% of standard bundle seats, and its stock fell 23% in the first quarter. Althoff said the company revamped its sales strategy after analyst feedback and was confident in its June quarter targets.

Microsoft launched Copilot Health, letting users connect medical records and ask health questions inside its Copilot app, while Amazon widened access to its LLM-based Health AI tool. These launches join ChatGPT Health from OpenAI and Anthropic's Claude, which can read health records when permitted. Researchers argue these tools need rigorous evaluation by independent experts before wide release.

Microsoft's blog post discusses the OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications (2026), which outlines risks for autonomous systems that act across workflows using real identities, data access and tools. The post explores the list's key findings and highlights practical mitigations grounded in Agent 365 and foundational capabilities in Microsoft Copilot Studio. Microsoft AI Red Team members helped review the list before publication.

CrowdStrike announced new Falcon platform capabilities that extend AI detection and response (AIDR) to endpoints, SaaS and cloud environments. On endpoints, Falcon AIDR will extend runtime threat detection beyond the browser to desktop AI applications such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, DeepSeek, Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot and Cursor, and is currently in pre-beta with general availability planned for Q2.

Microsoft is consolidating the engineering groups behind its commercial and consumer Copilot assistants, which have yet to gain broad adoption. Jacob Andreou, a former Snap executive, becomes executive vice president in charge of the Copilot experience and reports to CEO Satya Nadella, freeing Mustafa Suleyman to focus on building new models.

Microsoft is reorganizing its engineering of the Copilot assistant by unifying parts of the consumer and commercial teams. Under the change, Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman will focus on building Microsoft's own AI models rather than the assistant-like features of Copilot for consumers.

Microsoft has temporarily disabled automatic installation of the Microsoft 365 Copilot app on Windows devices outside the EEA that run Microsoft 365 desktop apps, a rollout planned for December 2025. The company has not said why it halted the change, and existing installations are unaffected.

Microsoft plans to bring its Gaming Copilot AI assistant to current-generation Xbox consoles this year, according to a GamesRadar report. Sonali Yadav, Xbox's product manager for gaming AI, said at a Game Developers Conference (GDC) panel that the assistant will also expand to more services players use. The assistant is already in beta on the Xbox mobile app, Windows 11 and Xbox Ally handhelds.

Microsoft announced Copilot Health, a separate, secure space within Copilot for questions about lab results and medical records, provider searches, analysis of wearable data and other health chats. The feature rolls out in phases, and users can join a waitlist for access. Microsoft says it does not replace a doctor and is not intended for diagnosis or treatment.

Anthropic launched Code Review, an AI reviewer that checks pull requests for logic errors inside Claude Code, first available to Claude for Teams and Claude for Enterprise customers in research preview. It integrates with GitHub, leaves comments with suggested fixes, and labels issues red, yellow or purple by severity. Anthropic says each review costs $15 to $25 on average.

Microsoft is adding a higher-priced Microsoft 365 E7 tier that costs $99 per user per month, compared with $60 for E5, to push enterprise customers toward its Copilot AI add-on. E7 bundles Copilot ($30), Entra identity tools ($12) and Agent 365 ($15) for managing AI agents, and it becomes available on May 1. Copilot Cowork, built with Anthropic, enters research preview this month for Frontier program clients.