GitHub's Copilot tool, which was developed in partnership with OpenAI, is now generally available. It's free for students and 'verified' open source contributors.

A Microsoft-owned tool powered by artificial intelligence is designed to make life easier for programmers, but some developers say it may be repurposing some of the billions of lines of code it ...

GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI pair-programming service, has been out for less than a month now, but it's already wildly popular.In projects where it's enabled, GitHub states nearly 40% of code is ...

If nothing else, GitHub is leading a brazen experiment that could pave the way for a wider range of AI-powered professional assistants. Code whisperer GitHub started working on Copilot in June ...

The CEO of GitHub says half of all code produced by users of the Copilot programming helper is now AI-generated—but that there’s no sign the technology will replace human coders.

The new free tier for VS Code aims to expand the AI-powered code completion assistant’s reach to a broader audience of developers — namely, those with only light usage needs and tighter ...

GitHub Copilot free is now available directly within VS Code and includes access to 2,000 code completions and 50 chat messages per month. Access to the AI tool requires users to sign in with ...

Last October, GitHub revealed that Copilot was helping write up to 30pc of code on the platform. Now, the Microsoft-owned company says its AI assistant is helping write nearly 40pc of code.