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As Big Tech continues to spend billions on AI, users and those in the industry worry about governance, data privacy, ethics, and safety risks.

As part of Build 2024, Microsoft has announced that all of the ways that developers can use to expand Copilot with new features will now be put under the brand name of Copilot Extensions.

You may not like it, but I’m having a hard time finding issue with how Microsoft-owned GitHub wiped 8,535 forks of Switch emulator Yuzu off the web. It says it warned repo owners, let ‘em make changes, let them submit DMCA counternotices, and publicly posted Nintendo’s takedown request. That’s a lot more than we can say for Discord and GitLab!

Microsoft and Cognizant have announced a new partnership that will include Cognizant buying 25,000 Microsoft 365 Copilot seats to help expand the use of generative AI in the enterprise space.

Less than one year after launching its AI coding assistant, Google has announced that it’s changing its name from Studio Bot to Gemini in Android Studio — just to make sure you know that yes, it uses AI, too. Google also announced that the tool will run on the company’s Gemini Pro 1.0 model, which should help it provide faster and more accurate answers to coding questions. Gemini in Android Studio isn’t the only AI coding assistant out there, with both Amazon and the Microsoft-owned GitH...

GitHub is upgrading its AI-powered Copilot system. Developers will get access to a ChatGPT-like chatbot and can also use their voice to write code.

Microsoft-owned GitHub is launching its Copilot Enterprise subscription today, designed to allow developers to work with businesses’ own internal code. The $39 per person per month subscription includes an AI chat interface, code completion, smart actions, and integration with GitHub. Microsoft’s Bing search engine will also provide the web search for queries that go beyond a company’s own data.

Xcode may soon get an Apple AI overhaul

Alphabet and Microsoft are seeing big jumps in cloud revenue from AI. But the companies buying those AI cloud services are struggling to figure out how to use the tech most effectively.

Meta releases its new AI-assisted code-writing tool, Code Llama 70B. It is trained on 500B code tokens to generate longer sequences. It understands code structures with a special technique.