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Microsoft is finally admitting what many IT teams already knew: It has too many Copilots. CEO Satya Nadella confirmed on the company’s fiscal Q4 2026 earnings call, held July 29, that Microsoft is folding its scattered Copilot experiences into a single app. The move will merge chat, coding, the Cowork research tool, and Microsoft’s autonomous agents, called Autopilots, into one place, spanning both consumer and business use. “Copilot is evolving rapidly from chat to Cowork to Autopilots,” Nadella said. “This quarter, we are bringing these Copilot experiences together, including code, in one super app. This is a major step forward, and I look forward to sharing more soon.” That’s a real commitment, not a rumor. Nadella attached a timeframe, not a date. He named the four pieces going into the merged app but did not say whether it replaces Microsoft’s existing standalone Copilot apps or runs alongside them. Pricing, feature scope and rollou...

For years, stacked pull requests have been something of an open secret in software engineering. Teams at Meta and Google have used internal versions of the workflow for over a decade, and open source developers cobbled together their own approach with tools like ghstack. Now GitHub is making it a native feature. The company announced this week that stacked pull requests are in public preview, rolling out to all repositories over the coming days. The idea behind stacking is simple, even if the mechanics take some getting used to. Instead of building one large pull request that captures an entire feature, developers break the work into an ordered series of smaller PRs. Each one sits on top of the last, representing a single layer of the change. A schema update might be the base layer, with business logic stacked on top of that, and a UI change stacked on top of that. Reviewers can look at each layer on its own, without wading through a diff that spans a thousand lines. That distinction...