The Allen Institute for AI (AI2) on Thursday released a highly anticipated open-source large language model, along with the underlying data and code meant to significantly improve understanding of how… Read More
Software development is one of the early use cases for generative AI. Thousands of companies big and small are already using tools such as GitHub Copilot to speed up how… Read More
Bouyed by the growing wave of software developers adopting artificial intelligence, GitHub is previewing a system called Copilot Workspace that uses natural language to help developers plan and implement projects.… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we’re featuring a panel discussion from the recent GeekWire Summit in Seattle, with three technology and business leaders offering first-hand insights into the new… Read More
Microsoft is launching a new AI Skills Initiative that includes a global grant challenge, free online courses, and a training toolkit for teachers. The initiative, announced Wednesday morning by Microsoft… Read More
Nat Friedman is stepping down as the CEO of Microsoft-owned developer community and code repository GitHub. He’ll be replaced by Thomas Dohmke, GitHub’s chief product officer, effective Nov. 15. Friedman… Read More
— Former Impact Hub Seattle Managing Director Sarah Studer is joining Techstars Seattle as the director of platform. Studer was most recently assistant director at the University of Washington’s Buerk… Read More
— The Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA) elected Dave Cotter as the new chair of its board of directors and Kristen Forecki as vice chair for the next two years.… Read More
GitHub announced Monday that it will acquire npm, a JavaScript package manager. npm is a key part of the JavaScript ecosystem, home to more than 1.3 million packages with 75… Read More
Microsoft’s 2019 fiscal year was one of its busiest ever for acquisitions, led by its $7.5 billion GitHub deal. The tech giant spent a total of $9.1 billion on 20… Read More
Microsoft employees are showing solidarity with workers at GitHub, a subsidiary of the company, who want their employer to cancel contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It’s the latest demonstration… Read More
Rachel Potvin signed on with Microsoft-owned GitHub as vice president of engineering. Potvin most recently led the data insights group at Google Cloud. She previously ran DevOps teams at Google… Read More
GitHub has acquired Semmle, the San Francisco-based maker of a code analysis platform, to bump up security for the coding repository. Semmle, which has an office in Bellevue, Wash., aims… Read More
Developers using GitHub in Iran, Syria and other areas facing U.S. sanctions have been blocked from accessing important parts of the Microsoft-owned code repository. GitHub CEO Nat Friedman tweeted out… Read More
As Slack makes its stock market debut, there’s a major company that won’t be allowing its employees to use the business collaboration and chat app as part of their daily… Read More
No-code app development startup AppSheet brought on Daisy dePaulis as chief revenue officer and Thierry D’Hers as vice president of engineering. dePaulis previously held senior sales roles at Seattle-based… Read More
Software developers that maintain and contribute to open-source projects will now be able to put out a virtual tip far on their GitHub accounts, thanks to a new feature called… Read More
GitHub is expanding the scope of its code repository to include support for publishing software packages, the company annoucned Friday afternoon. After teasing an announcement all week on Twitter, GitHub… Read More
Nearly a year after Microsoft made one of the biggest outlays in its history to acquire the open-source code repository GitHub, it plans to integrate that near-ubiquitous coding tool with… Read More
Bug bounties have transformed the way enterprise tech companies think about security, and now that it’s part of Microsoft, GitHub is upgrading its program. Security researchers who find bugs in… Read More
GitHub will kick off the new year by allowing free users of the code repository service to maintain private projects, which should encourage smaller developers wary of its new corporate… Read More
One of the first things GitHub did under its new owner over the past week was put the finishing touches on one of the most detailed outage reports you’ll ever… Read More
Just four months into Microsoft’s fiscal year, the company has spent more on acquisitions than it has in many entire years in the past. According to a GeekWire analysis, Microsoft’s… Read More
Software teams were stymied late Sunday and early Monday by a widespread GitHub outage that prevented developers from using the vital code repository for several hours. No data was lost,… Read More
Microsoft’s deal to buy GitHub for $7.5 billion cleared a major regulatory hurdle Friday. The European Commission, the regulatory arm of the EU, approved the acquisition without conditions, finding that the… Read More
GitHub isn’t content with being the storage locker for your code: it thinks it has come up with a better way to let software developers collaborate and improve their efficiency.… Read More
GitHub tried to put worries about its independence under Microsoft to rest Thursday, announcing a partnership with Google Cloud that will make it easier for developers to use a new… Read More
Microsoft has learned a few lessons from the $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn that executives say they’re applying to the recently announced purchase of GitHub. At Microsoft Inspire, its annual… Read More
Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes based on the talks, panels and fireside chats as they’re… Read More
GitHub, the software development platform that recently agreed to be acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion, is expanding its services for schools, universities and educational institutions with the launch of… Read More