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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft just made GitHub Copilot free and open source software under the MIT License. As of today, you can fork it, modify ...

The AI-powered capabilities from GitHub Copilot extensions will now be part of the same open-source repository that drives the world’s most popular development tool. As the home of over 150 million ...

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 ...

See VS Code Team's System Prompts for Copilot Chat, Now Open Source. By David Ramel; 06/30/2025 ... It joins a growing lineup of VS Code forks built for AI-assisted development, and it arrives just as ...

Microsoft is making it easier to talk to its AI assistant. The company announced this week that it has started introducing a new “Hey, Copilot!” wake word feature for Windows 11, allowing ...

Microsoft announced in May that its AI assistant, Copilot, would begin using GPT-4o, OpenAI technology that also powers the paid version of ChatGPT. Copilot was launched in 2023 to add AI across ...