Z.ai launches ZCode to challenge Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot in AI coding

Z.ai has launched ZCode, a free AI coding tool powered by GLM-5.2 that challenges Cursor, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot ...
InfoWorldOpinion

Open source grapples with agentic coding

Open source maintainers are right to be concerned about AI slop, but banning AI-generated code outright is a huge mistake.
Yahoo Finance

Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

Code-generating systems like DeepMind's AlphaCode, Amazon's CodeWhisperer and OpenAI's Codex, which powers GitHub's Copilot service, provide a tantalizing look at what's possible with AI today within ...
The Next Web

GitHub freezes new Copilot sign-ups as agentic AI breaks the economics of flat-rate developer subscriptions

Agentic coding workflows are now routinely generating costs that exceed what users pay per month. GitHub’s response, pausing new sign-ups for Pro, Pro+, and Student plans and tightening usage caps, ...