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This wild AI tool rips off open source code without breaking copyright

In early 2025, a class-action lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI over Copilot’s use of open-source training data ...
Ars Technica

DeepSeek goes beyond “open weights” AI with plans for source code release

Last month, DeepSeek turned the AI world on its head with the release of a new, competitive simulated reasoning model that was free to download and use under an MIT license. Now, the company is ...
Ars Technica

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.
AOL

DeepSeek to share some AI model code, doubling down on open source

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese startup DeepSeek will make its models' code publicly available, it said on Friday, doubling down on its commitment to open-source artificial intelligence. The company said ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft open-sources VS Code Copilot Chat extension on GitHub

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 ...
TechCrunch

For open source programs, AI coding tools are a mixed blessing

A world that runs on increasingly powerful AI coding tools is one where software creation is cheap — or so the thinking goes — leaving little room for traditional software companies. As one analyst ...
SiliconANGLE

Sonar expands SonarQube with advanced security for third-party open-source code

Code quality testing startup SonarSource SA today announced the upcoming release of SonarQube Advanced Security, a new offering that will extend the company’s analysis capabilities beyond first-party ...