Licenses, major projects, and the politics of open code.
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Will Knight / Wired ·
"Most of the risk is actually created by a couple of players building behind closed doors," Clément Delangue said of the need for open source AI.
Anthropic ·
Roy Rinberg (Anthropic), Alex Allain (Anthropic); Alessandro Chiesa (EPFL, StarkWare), Miranda Christ (MIT, RESI), Rahul Dalal …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch ·
The voice AI sector is hot, and top players are trying to consolidate their position as more business models come to the fore through partnerships and acquisitions.
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE ·
Nvidia Corp. today released a leaderboard-winning open artificial intelligence model for multilingual audio transcription and translation …
Anthropic ·
Introduction
Bloomberg ·
DeepSeek and MiniMax Group Inc. have won approval to deploy models overseas, part of a wave of homegrown AI technologies that Beijing …
Emily Mullin / Wired ·
The new open-source model speaks the language of DNA and can help researchers understand the effects of any changes on gene activity and health.
Chris Rohlf / Anthropic ·
Over the past year, we've published lots of data that shows that frontier AI models are more than capable of discovering and exploiting security vulnerabilities.
Julie Bort / TechCrunch ·
On Tuesday, Google announced that TorchTPU, its long-awaited version of PyTorch, is now available as an open-source project.
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg ·
DeepSeek is opening up the software it uses to run its artificial intelligence models at scale, potentially making its technology cheaper and easier for businesses to run.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire ·
A new software tool from Amazon aims to make switching from Nvidia to the company's own AI chips about as simple as changing a setting.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat ·
Reflection AI today released the weights of Beam, its first open model, and is pitching it against the Chinese open models that many U.S. companies …
The Information ·
OpenAI, which is trying to develop a substantial cybersecurity business, is in early talks to buy Trail of Bits …
Paul Sawers / The New Stack ·
Cloudflare is buying the startup co-founded by Node.js creator Ryan Dahl, a longtime competitor that recently built its own open-source version …
Ashley Campion / CrowdStrike ·
CrowdStrike Intelligence identified infrastructure associated with a targeted campaign against South Korean financial organizations that resulted in exfiltrated data.
Politico ·
"We are disappointed with the quality of Mistral," Ecosia founder and CEO told POLITICO.
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal ·
The startup's Hermes tool has been downloaded more than 22 million times since February
Google ·
EmbeddingGemma 2 is the most capable model for on-device multimodal embeddings, natively mapping combinations of text, images …
Karissa Bell / Engadget ·
The company created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat ·
The race to make AI agents cheaper and faster is moving beyond the models that write their answers.
Reuters ·
Chinese AI firm DeepSeek said on Wednesday it has partnered with Huawei Technologies to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips …
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg ·
The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE ·
Intrinsic Innovation LLC, the intelligent robotics software company owned by Google LLC's parent Alphabet Inc. …
Lily Hay Newman / Wired ·
Cisco Talos researchers created a new framework for identifying malware and hacking tools that rely on AI chatbots
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters ·
Temporal said on Monday it has raised $550 million in a late-stage funding round, more than doubling its valuation to $12.55 billion …
CNBC ·
Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with Nvidia Founder & CEO Jensen Huang …
Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire ·
Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene.
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information ·
Developers and chip designers are increasingly upbeat about the benefits of using AI to supercharge the process of designing and optimizing AI chips …
Luke James / Tom's Hardware ·
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
Todd Bishop / GeekWire ·
Amazon has agreed to acquire DuckLabs, the company behind DuckDB, the fast-growing open-source database that has become a favorite …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch ·
Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app …
Bloomberg ·
Temporal Technologies Inc. is in talks for a fresh funding round that would give the AI startup a valuation of at least $12 billion …
Juro Osawa / The Information ·
Alibaba Group said its new small-size AI model that customers can run on their own personal computers has been downloaded …
@alibaba_qwen ·
We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows. - 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat ·
DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work.
Tom Wilson / Financial Times ·
AI agents ran simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins in display of new phase of cyberwarfare.
Anhata Rooprai / Reuters ·
IBM (IBM.N) and startup Together AI have signed a $240 million multi-year agreement to build a large-scale artificial intelligence cluster …
New York Times ·
Developers built Sunflower, an artificial intelligence tool customized for Ugandan languages, using a Chinese model.
Reuters ·
China's food delivery giant Meituan (3690.HK) said on Tuesday it had released and would open-source its next-generation LongCat …
Julie Bort / TechCrunch ·
Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark …
Lily Hay Newman / Wired ·
Amid concerns about AI models' cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its "Patch the Planet" …