1Password Funding Row Shows Open Source Is Political
1Password's Omarchy funding backlash shows how open-source sponsorship can become a brand and trust problem.
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Nvidia Buys Hugging Face In $12.93B Open AI Bet
Nvidia's Hugging Face deal turns open AI infrastructure into a strategic battleground for chips, models and developers.
VLC Hits 7 Billion Downloads As Free Software Still Wins
VLC has crossed 7 billion downloads, a reminder that simple, free and open-source software can still outlast platform lock-ins.
AWS Buying DuckLabs Brings DuckDB Closer To The Cloud Data Wars
AWS is acquiring DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind DuckDB, while the open-source database remains under the DuckDB Foundation.
AI Coding Tools Are Creating A New Burden For Open-Source Maintainers
AI coding tools are changing open-source work by increasing low-quality submissions that human maintainers still have to review, fix and ...
France Dumps Windows for Linux in Major Shift Away From US Tech
France is making one of the boldest tech policy moves in Europe right now and it’s aimed squarely at reducing ...
China’s Z.ai Open-sources GLM-5.1, a Long‑running AI Agent Built for 8‑hour Tasks
Chinese AI startup Z.ai, also known as Zhupai AI, has released a new flagship large language model, GLM-5.1, as open ...
Cohere Releases Open-Source Transcription Model
Cohere, an enterprise AI business, introduced its first speech model on Thursday, and Indeed, Transcribe, Cohere's first open-source voice model ...
Mistral Now Offers New Open-Source Model For Speech Generation
PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 11: The logo of the French company Mistral AI, specializing in generative artificial intelligence is displayed ...
Two “Open” AI Reasoning Models Released by OpenAI
OpenAI competes with Mark Zuckerberg's Meta by releasing its own open-source AI models. The creator of ChatGPT has revealed two ...