Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that GitHub's Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of programmers.

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...

Password management company Dashlane has made its mobile app code available on GitHub for public perusal, a first step it says in a broader push to make its platform more transparent. The Dashlane ...

Overview: Free AI coding assistants offer verified access and support many tasks in VS Code.Open source and local models ...

According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...

New Northern District of California ruling allows anonymous coders to pursue claims for alleged breach of open-source software licenses by AI-assisted coding tool. In an early test of a potential ...

A department builds something new (all too often something that already exists) puts the code in a public GitHub repository, ...

GitHub Copilot has pushed AI-assisted programming well beyond code generation and code chat, with new capabilities continuing to arrive at a rapid pace. In 2014, Microsoft Research released an ...

GitHub has introduced an automated alert mechanism to enable developers to address vulnerabilities in the open source components their code uses. According to GitHub, the new feature, called ...

Free and open source Codeium has launched an assault on the front-running, for-pay GitHub Copilot tool in the coding assistant space. Along with being free of OpenAI hegemony, a key selling point in ...