Xbox CEO Asha Sharma says Xbox "will begin winding down Copilot on mobile and will stop development of Copilot on console" as part of a strategic shift (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/924551/microsoft-xbox-ceo-copilot-ai-asha-sh…
With Microslop having deprecated the Intellicode auto-completion extension in #VSCode and sooner or later forcing everyone to use cloud-based #Copilot instead, are there any other #TypeScript users wh…
Seattle-based CopilotKit, whose popular AG-UI protocol lets developers deploy app-native AI agents, raised a $27M Series A led by Glilot, NFX, and SignalFire (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/05/copilotkit-raises-27m-to-hel…
Sources: SoftBank plans to make lithium- and cobalt-free data center batteries in Japan as soon as FY2027, as Japan tries to cut its reliance on Chinese metals (Natsuki Yamamoto/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/energy/so…
Sources: Microsoft's Judson Althoff said Copilot sales hit "some pretty big audacious goals" in Q3; only 3% of customers were paying for Copilot as of January (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20