---
title: "💸 The One Where You See the Bill Before It Arrives"
date: 2026-05-17
author: Andrea Griffiths
language: en
issue: 27
excerpt: "April Copilot usage reports are now available, Dependabot can now reach internal repositories across organizations, and a live session May 20 covers Copilot best practices for the UBB era."
tags: ["copilot", "dependabot", "billing", "enterprise", "newsletter"]
canonical_url: https://mainbranch.beehiiv.com/p/f6b5b586-f067-4141-81da-8f01cc3ffea9
---

Hiya friends,

Back in [Issue #25](/newsletter/issue-25/) I broke down how UBB changes the math on every Copilot call. The follow-up question I kept getting was "okay, so what will my team actually use?" Now there's a report for that.

## 🚢 What Shipped

**April Copilot usage reports are now available** [Read the changelog](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-05-12-april-reports-are-now-available-to-prepare-for-usage-based-billing/)

The report tells you which models your team used most, which surfaces drove the highest consumption, and who your top consumers are. It's not a recalculated bill, it's a directional read before the meter goes live.

If you want a walkthrough of the official CSV upload flow, I made a [short video](https://andreagriffiths11.github.io/copilot-interaction-cost-guide/usage-report-video.html) on the Copilot billing preview tool that covers what to look for in the overview, users, models, products, and cost center views.

Want to go deeper? This Wednesday, May 20 at 11am ET, I'm going live with Marco Olivo and Francesco Lana for an hour on Copilot best practices for the UBB era. We'll cover scoping context, getting code-first answers, and picking the right mode so agent overhead doesn't eat your budget. You'll leave with a checklist you can use the same day. [Set your reminder](https://gh.io/ubb-live).

**Cross-org Dependabot access for internal repositories** [Read the changelog](https://github.com/changelog)

If you maintain internal packages across multiple GitHub organizations in the same enterprise, Dependabot can now reach them. Previously it could only access repos within the same org, which meant cross-org internal dependencies quietly fell out of automatic updates.

Enable it from your enterprise's Advanced Security Policies page. Once you do, Dependabot can open PRs for dependencies regardless of which org hosts the package. If your dependency graph has any cross-org internal packages, check what's been silently unmonitored.

## 📖 What I'm Reading

**[Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55051662-genius-makers)** by Cade Metz

Metz tracks the deep learning crowd from the 2012 ImageNet moment through the talent wars that built the labs we now work alongside every day. Reading it feels like context for everything happening right now, except told from the perspective of the people who were in the rooms.

Worth your time if: you want to understand how we got from stubborn researchers to AI being a line item on your bill.

## 🔧 What I'm Using

**[CSS corner-shape](https://una.im/border-shape)** by Una Kravets

Part of CSS Borders Level 4, corner-shape lets you define the actual geometry of rounded corners. Squircles, superellipses, the Apple-style shapes that border-radius can't give you on its own.

I rolled it out across my site this week on cards, CTAs, badges, code blocks, and forms. The key move was keeping border-radius as the fallback so Firefox and older Safari users still see rounded corners while Chrome and Edge get the upgrade. Zero regression risk.

```css
.surface-card {
  @apply rounded-3xl border border-slate-200;
  corner-shape: squircle;
}
```

## ✨ This Week

I chaperoned my youngest's school trip to Kennedy Space Center and teachers genuinely do not get paid enough, period. I had a small group, all best friends IRL, parents I know well. I fully expected to be on edge. Instead, I had the best time. They're kind-hearted kids who pull goofy boy stunts like trying to sneak out of their sleeping bags, but years of sleep deprivation trained me well lol.

We slept under the gigantic Saturn V.

![Saturn V at Kennedy Space Center](/images/saturn-v-kennedy-space-center.jpg)

Hug your babies close. Time is a thief, friends.

With gratitude,

Andrea