I published a version of this article on Medium eight years ago. This version is updated with new references and arguments. Over the last few years, I’ve been a part of lots of discussions — across ...

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen next to the Chat GPT logo on a phone on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...

Just like you probably don't grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don't write every line of code in a new project from scratch. Doing so would be extremely slow ...

"Now that the code is open source, what does it mean for you? Explore the codebase and learn how agent mode is implemented, what context is sent to LLMs, and how we engineer our prompts. Everything, ...

(Bloomberg) -- Tech companies and academics have long wrestled with the risks and rewards of building open-source software. But the frenzy around generative artificial intelligence has lent new ...

Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...

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 ...

On the podcast, [Tom] and I were talking about the continuing saga of the libogc debacle. [Tom] has been interviewing some of the principals involved, so he’s got some first-hand perspective on it all ...

As expected, President Donald Trump's administration recently unveiled Winning the Race: AI Action Plan went all in on liberating AI companies to do what they want to make sure "that the United States ...

As AI takes hold across businesses of every type and size, open-source solutions like those now offered by Meta, Google, xAI and others are catching up to proprietary AI models and providing a strong ...

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 ...