Microsoft has open-sourced its popular GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, a key step towards a transparent, community ...

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 ...

Most recently, Microsoft has been sued by programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick, who has alleged that GitHub’s Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of ...

Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source. However, Microsoft has extended the development ...

Elsewhere, Microsoft is open-sourcing GitHub Copilot in VS Code, its assistive coding extension for Visual Studio Code. Over the next few months, AI-powered capabilities from the GitHub Copilot ...

By open-sourcing WSL, Microsoft has opened it up to direct contributions, ... with numerous updates issued to the company's Copilot agents to boost productivity across Microsoft 365 apps.

And finally, Microsoft announced a new open source project called NLWeb to help developers create conversational AI interfaces for their websites using any model or data source they’d like.

Catering to Java jockeys, Microsoft is yet again expanding the sprawling reach of its Copilot-branded AI assistants, previewing a coding tool for the open-source Eclipse IDE. "We are excited to ...

Microsoft’s embrace of open source AI at Ignite 2023 this week is notable in light of the fact that CEO Satya Nadella took the time to appear at OpenAI’s first-ever developer conference DevDay ...

Acquired by Microsoft in 2018 for $7.5 billion, GitHub dominates its market and is betting Copilot has the AI horsepower to fight off rival services including Tabnine, Amazon’s CodeWhisperer and ...