The U.K. government is not ruling out further beefing up of existing online safety rules by adding an Australian-style ban on social media for kids under 16 technology secretary Peter Kyle has said. Back in the summer, the government warned it may toughen laws for tech platforms in the wake of riots that were perceived […]
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Bluesky might not be training AI systems on user content as other social networks are doing, but there’s little stopping third-parties from doing so. Per a report by 404 Media, a machine learning librarian at AI firm Hugging Face pulled 1 million public posts from Bluesky via its Firehose API for machine learning research, pushing […]
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If a software product is successful enough, you’ll probably be able to find a company building an open source alternative. And yet, nobody has created a modern open source CRM product that can be considered as a serious competitor to Salesforce. That’s exactly what Twenty is trying to achieve. For the past couple of years, […]
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Workbrew emerges from stealth with the mission of mitigating the risks of “shadow IT” practices around Homebrew package manager deployments.
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Ask anyone in the open source AI community, and they will tell you the gap between them and the big private companies is more than just computing power. AI2 is working to fix that, first with fully open source databases and models, and now with an open and easily adapted post-training regimen to turn “raw” […]
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Belgium-based Odoo decided to use open-source tools as a way to attack the enterprise resource planning (ERP) software market, going up against giants like SAP. Fast forward a couple of decades and it’s now picking up €500 million in secondary investment — or around $527M at current exchange rates — led by CapitalG (Alphabet’s venture […]
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The U.K. government is not ruling out further beefing up existing online safety rules by adding an Australian-style ban on social media for under 16s technology secretary, Peter Kyle, has said. Back in the summer the government warned it may toughen laws for tech platforms in the wake of riots that were perceived to have […]
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The open source funding problem is very real, but a slew of initiatives have emerged of late, with startups, corporations, and venture capitalists launching various programs to support some of the most critical projects via equity-free financing. Today it’s GitHub’s turn, launching the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund with an initial commitment of $1.25 million […]
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A dearth of funding for vital open source technologies is leading to a swath of support from startups, unicorns, corporations, and even venture capital firms. Last year, Bloomberg launched its FOSS (free and open source software) fund, committing up to $90,000 per year to various projects. And in October, Indian financial services company Zerodha launched […]
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There’s increasing support in the AI industry for “open” AI models — models released under permissive licenses that can be repurposed for a range of applications. Standing in contrast to models gated behind paid services, open models are shacking up the AI status quo. At Disrupt 2024, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence CEO Ali Farhadi […]
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