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Some other products owned by Microsoft, which also owns GitHub, appeared to experience minor outages Monday morning, according to reports on DownDetector. Hundreds of users reported issues with Copilot, Microsoft’s AI tool, with reports spiking around 11:30 a.m. EDT. Microsoft Teams also received hundreds of issue reports on DownDetector on Monday morning.
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180 million. That’s how many users, or developers, GitHub says it serves. The company has said in recent months its growth has been rapid amid an AI coding craze. “June was by far our best month ever,” the company’s chief technology officer Vladimir Fedorov told employees earlier this summer. In a blog post in April, Fedorov said the company began working on a plan in October to expand its capacity tenfold, but by February, it became clear the platform needed to boost capacity 30x. “The main driver is a rapid change in how software is being built,” Fedorov wrote, citing AI-driven workflows.
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An update on GitHub availability (GitHub)