Now, AI coding tools are raising new issues with how that “clean room” rewrite process plays out both legally, ethically, and practically. Dan Blanchard took over maintenance of the repository in 2012 ...

The reason is clear: Open source licenses are designed to allow users to revise, fix, and extend their code. The barber or cop may not be familiar enough with code to contribute, but programmers sure ...

ServiceNow Inc., Hugging Face Inc. and Nvidia Corp. today released StarCoder2, the latest version of the trio’s StarCoder family of open-source large language models for code generation. The companies ...