According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...

The July 2025 update to Visual Studio Code, taking it to version 1.103, adds support for chat checkpoints, allowing developers to restore their workspace and conversation to earlier states during AI ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VS Code) team has reached a key milestone in its vision to transform VS Code into an open‑source AI editor. On 30 June 2025, the team announced that the GitHub Copilot ...

VS Code 1.100 adds support for instructions and prompt files for Copilot Chat and speeds up edits in agent mode and in Next Edit Suggestions. Visual Studio Code 1.100, the latest release of ...

VS Code has barely been released and can already handle OpenAI's latest language model GPT-5. It should bring advantages in reasoning, programming and chat. Microsoft has released the July update of ...

With VS Code 1.81, the diff editor includes several new features and bug fixes, and the new diff algorithm is enabled by default. Visual Studio Code 1.81, the latest release of Microsoft’s extensible ...