A developer caught Copilot adding promotional "tips" to code descriptions, highlighting a messy new era of AI slop.

Following backlash from developers, GitHub has removed Copilot's ability to stick ads - what it calls "tips" - into any pull request that invokes its name.  Australian developer Zach Manson noted on ...

That includes the Copilot features in Visual Studio Code.

GitHub Copilot will train on your data by default soon. Here’s what changes, what data is used, and how to opt out.

Microsoft improved on its new "Copilot Edit" functionality in the latest v1.96 release of Visual Studio Code, its open-source based code editor that has become the most popular in the world according ...

Microsoft will train GitHub Copilot using user interaction data by default. Users must opt out before April 24 to avoid data ...

GitHub upgraded its Copilot AI coding assistant with a new GPT-4o code completion model, which is now available in Visual Studio Code as a preview. Based on the GPT-4o mini model, the 4o upgrade ...

Coding can be both exhilarating and exhausting. One moment, you’re deep in the flow, solving complex problems, and the next, you’re bogged down by repetitive tasks or hunting for snippets across ...

January 2025 release of VS Code includes a Copilot feature that predicts the user’s next edit, a movable Command Palette, and no-config debugging for Python scripts. A just-released update of Visual ...

Popular AI coding tool Copilot is now available for Xcode as part of a public preview, GitHub announced today. Apple developers can use Copilot for coding assistance directly in Xcode, which GitHub ...

GitHub describes this training data as inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context, but the fine print goes into ...