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GitHub & Microsoft Copilot Free for Students in 2026: What Still Works

If you are a student or teacher hoping to get Copilot free in 2026, the rules changed sharply this spring. GitHub paused new sign-ups for its free Copilot Student plan on April 20, 2026, with no reopening date announced. Verified students who activated Copilot before the pause keep free access under the new GitHub Copilot Student plan, live since March 12, 2026. On that plan, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.3-Codex, and Claude Opus and Sonnet are no longer pickable by hand. On the Microsoft side, eligible college students can still get Microsoft 365 Premium free for 12 months (then $19.99/month), and Copilot Chat is free with a school account on Microsoft 365 A1, […]

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New Microsoft Study Reveals the First 40 Jobs AI Will Replace Soon

As generative AI tools like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT or Gemini become more common, their real-world impact on jobs is starting to take shape. In a major 2025 study, Microsoft Research analyzed 200,000 anonymized U.S.-based conversations with Bing Copilot to see what kinds of work tasks people are using AI for—and how well the AI handles them. By matching these tasks to official job categories from the O*NET database, the study maps out which occupations are most exposed to AI capabilities. Instead of speculating how many jobs AI might replace, the researchers introduced an “AI applicability score” for each job, based on task frequency, success rate, and how much of the […]