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GitHub powering up four million extra cores to stop its service going down

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GitHub's Universe conference kicked off in San Francisco on Wednesday with news that its infrastructural universe is expanding to address staggering demand from AI agents.GitHub recorded 7.4 billion code commits in September 2026, five times more than hit its servers a year earlier. This surge in traffic over the past year, the result of developers running AI agents and generating increased amounts of programming code, caught the company unprepared and led to a series of outages and service avai

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