Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

The leak provides competitors—from established giants to nimble rivals like Cursor—a literal blueprint for how to build a ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I tested Claude Code against 3 open-source alternatives, and one came surprisingly close

Claude might not be the only coding agent worth using.
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 ...
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 ...
SiliconANGLE

Open-source code security startup Chainguard raises $356M at $3.5B valuation

Chainguard Inc., a startup that helps developers ensure the open-source code they use is secure, has raised $356 million in fresh funding. The Series D round comes less than a year after the company’s ...
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 ...
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.