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, ...

Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it ...

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 ...

Generative AI tools have quickly become transformative to many businesses, with their power to create words, pictures, video, sounds and even computer code, augment human skills and automate routine ...

Open source software makes inroads vs. proprietary software despite warnings of Microsoft, others. Open source software initially was a head-scratcher: “How can you make money selling something for ...