Last month, the company launched new updates to Copilot Chat, a chat function that can help developers troubleshoot bugs or answer coding questions. Copyright risksIn September, Microsoft announced a policy that it would provide indemnification coverage to copyright claims related to its AI-powered Copilot tools, including GitHub Copilot. If customers don't want their code included in training sets for AI, they can make their GitHub code bases private. "That's part of listening to the community and trying to understand the feedback and how can we help," McKinley said. "Others are experimenting with AI," Shani said.

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