GitHub made its Copilot Chat feature available to business users as a limited public beta in July. By September, individual users could pay $10 a month for access to the ChatGPT-esque tool for coding. Starting today, Copilot Chat won’t only be included in paid tiers, it’ll also be “free for verified teachers, students and maintainers of certain open source projects,” TechCrunch reports.
This time, it has to fork over $740,000 after an investigation by New York Attorney General Letitia James found “a long and burdensome cancellation process” in which the company kept on charging consumers even after they tried to cancel.
Earlier this year, Cerebral admitted to inadvertently sharing sensitive information about millions of patients with third-party advertisers. The company is also under investigation by the DOJ and DEA over prescriptions for controlled substances.
Planting too many trees can do more harm than good. The Verge has said this again and again with tree-planting schemes becoming a popular way for brands to paint themselves green. A big part of the problem was an initiative to plant a trillion trees spearheaded by the World Economic Forum and backed by a contested study from the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich. Apparently, the lab’s namesake, Thomas Crowther, took the stage during the recent United Nations climate conference to push countries to protect existing forests instead. “If no one had ever said, ‘Plant a trillion trees,’ I think we’d have been in a lot better space,” Crowther tells Wired.
