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.

GitHub begins rolling out a new GPT-4-powered version of its Copilot coding assistant today. The new iteration expands the tool’s functionality to more phases of the code creation process. The ...

GitHub is announcing its Copilot X initiative today, an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, which originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021. With this, ...

Aug 11 (Reuters) - GitHub Chief Executive Thomas Dohmke said on Monday he will leave the Microsoft-owned (MSFT.O), opens new tab code-hosting platform to launch a new startup, capping a tenure that ...

The chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub is stepping down, a major change for a coding platform grappling with increasing competition over AI tools for programmers. Thomas Dohmke said ...

Microsoft has owned GitHub since 2018, but the widely used developer platform has operated with at least a little independence from the rest of the company, with its own separate CEO and other ...

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...