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Microsoft announced today that the second preview version of its Visual Studio 17.10 software developer tools is now available to download. It includes some additional GitHub Copilot features.

Microsoft's GitHub has released GitHub Copilot Chat for JetBrains IDEs such as IntelliJ IDEA. It's available for everyone to use now following a private beta but requires a subscription.

GitHub has launched a new Learning Pathway for GitHub Copilot. It's for business leaders who'll choose whether to deploy this tool for their developers. GitHub is also working on an upcoming pathway.

Microsoft-owned GitHub has made GitHub Copilot Enterprise generally available. It costs $39 a month per user and will provide businesses and organizations AI code creation and assistance.

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.

Microsoft will end support for Visual Studio 2013 on April 9, meaning that it will no longer receive security updates or fixes. Developers using older versions will see reduced support over the

GitHub Copilot Chat, the generative AI-based chatbot for software developers, is now generally available for both individual developers as well as organizations after a long beta preview period.

Visual Studio Preview users with GitHub Copilot can now get smart suggestions for variable, method, and class names. This should help users make their code easier to understand for others.

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced that its GitHub Copilot Chat will become generally available in December 2023, and will offer GitHub Copilot Enterprise in February 2024 for $39 a person per month.

Free to download report: find out how two major AI-powered code generation tools - GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer compare, along with the benefits and drawbacks for developers.

GitHub Copilot Chat was launched earlier this year for business customers, but now the beta version of the generative AI code assistant is available to everyone across Visual Studio and VS Code.

Microsoft says that if someone who uses its Copilot generative AI products gets sued by someone who claims it violated its copyrighted content, Microsoft will help defend that person legally.

Meta has released Code Llama, an open-source AI that can generate code and natural language responses to prompts. It supports popular programming languages such as Python, Javascript, and C++.

GitHub's Copilot Chat AI is now available in public beta. It gives developers a ChatGPT-like experience when coding. The tool will initially be available to businesses and organisations.

GitHub has said that generative AI tools for developers will lead to a huge $1.5 trillion boost to global GDP by the year 2030. It said people are still learning what it can do to help them.

Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code. It comes with several updates of interest to developers including GitHub Copilot Chat improvements and read-only mode for specific files and folders.

Apple has told its employees to stop using generative AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot because it's worried about confidential data leaking out to other companies that could abuse it.

GitHub Copilot X will add a chat interface to the editor that suggests code and examines it, proposes edits to fix broken code, and more. Sign-ups are available for its technical preview.

Microsoft has announced GitHub Copilot for Business with the promise of transforming developers' productivity and helping them code faster. It has also announced "greater benefits" for organizations.

Microsoft has announced the general availability of GitHub Copilot, its AI-powered development assistant. If you're looking for an AI to help you write code, you can give it a go at $10/month.

Microsoft has announced Dev Box, a Windows 365 solution that enables developers to access powerful workstations in the cloud through any device with access to a web browser, including Android and iOS.