r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them
Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source software, have barred any project that “uses AI, is…
Reflection debuts Beam, an open-weight AI model to rival Chinese models at lower compute cost
Reflection AI is officially unveiling Beam, its first frontier, open-weight AI model. The two-year-old, Brooklyn-based startup claims Beam…
Exclusive: ABBYY brings zero-shot document AI to Vantage
ABBYY is adding zero-shot document extraction to its Vantage platform as it develops a modular, multi-model architecture designed…
Google Mantis: An Agentic Vulnerability Scanning Harness for Reducing False Positives
Google has open-sourced Mantis, an AI-agent framework designed to automate the software vulnerability lifecycle, from identifying and validating…
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open-source duck robot, Microduck
Hugging Face unveiled the Microduck on Thursday, a cute little duck-like robot that sells for $399 — and…
Hugging Face reportedly in talks to be acquired for $13B
Hugging Face has been approached to sell at a valuation of $13 billion or more, Business Insider reported…
Google Cloud unveils AI harness that finds flaws fast
Google Cloud has disclosed details of its internal Agentic Vulnerability Discovery Harness for source code review, a system…
Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
Tim O’Reilly’s yardstick for measuring the worth of a company, person, or society has long been create more…
EITWatch open-source ESP32-S3 smartwatch implements planar EIT hand gesture recognition
Researchers from Northwestern University have introduced EITWatch, an open-source ESP32-S3-based EIT (Electrical Impedance Tomography) gesture-sensing system that fits…
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning and NeMo Switchyard Deliver Faster, Smarter, More Efficient Agentic AI
As AI shifts from chatbots to autonomous agents, open models are serving market demands for full control over…
Google Cloud sets 2029 roadmap for quantum-safe shift
Google Cloud has set out a roadmap to migrate its infrastructure and services to post-quantum cryptography by 2029,…
Industry Leaders Join Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
Open source software is a critical pillar of the global economy. It underpins cloud computing, financial services, manufacturing,…