Lasso extracted a list of repositories that were public at any point in 2024 and identified the repositories that had since been deleted or set to private. Using Bing’s caching mechanism, the company found more than 20,000 since-private GitHub repositories still had data accessible through Copilot, affecting more than 16,000 organizations.

Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, Microsoft.

Gemini Code Assist is an AI coding assistant developed by Google and powered by the Gemini 2.0 model. It provides real-time code completions, assists with debugging, and generates entire code blocks based on developer prompts.

Google has released a new, free version of Gemini Code Assist today. It’s an AI code completion and help tool for individuals. The company calls it Gemini Code Assist for Individuals. The company also released Gemini Code Assist for GitHub.

And provides 90 times more monthly code completions than GitHub Copilot’s free tier.

Hobbyists and startup developers can now access Google's free Gemini Code Assist, offering AI-powered coding, large completions, and seamless IDE integration.

Google is introducing a new, free version of its Code Assist AI programming assistant to aggressively compete with GitHub Copilot.

A recent post alleged that ChatGPT (and, by association, Microsoft Copilot) was capable of accessing data from private GitHub repositories.

The release brings new features for the GitHub Copilot AI assistant. With the Copilot Vision preview function, it can answer questions about screenshots.

Google’s AI coding assistant can help you write, test, debug, and document your code, but currently lacks whole-repo code generation and agents for long-running coding tasks.

Developers and enthusiasts can now ditch ChatGPT for Google's code-optimized Gemini Code Assist. It's available for free and the usage limits are practically unreachable.

Gemini Code Assist was first released late last year as an enterprise tool, and the new version has almost all the same features. While you can use the standard Gemini or another AI model like ChatGPT to work on coding questions,