Copilot Credits go default-on: your 2 November checklist
From 2 November 2026, new Microsoft 365 Copilot Business licences bought through CSP arrive with usage-based billing switched on, an Azure subscription attached, and Copilot Credits metering Cowork, the Work IQ APIs and GitHub Copilot Harness. Five settings in the Microsoft 365 admin center decide whether that becomes a budget line or a surprise invoice, and the defaults are not the ones a finance team would pick.
Tokens are the new pricing lever: Gemini 3.6 Flash math
Google's 21 July release of Gemini 3.6 Flash pairs an output-price cut from $9.00 to $7.50 per million tokens with a claim of roughly 17% fewer output tokens per task, compounding to about 31% lower output cost for unchanged work. That combination makes per-million-token price sheets unreliable for model comparison, and Azure teams should measure cost per completed task instead.