Open Source

Licenses, major projects, and the politics of open code.

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Karissa Bell / Engadget ·

Meta announces Muse Gadgets, providing an open source ESP32 microchip firmware and a Linux SDK to let users bring Muse to their hardware, like Raspberry Pi 5

The company created its own smart home device, the Muse Home Link

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat ·

Strands Labs, AWS's experimental agent-development project, unveils Strands Decider 2B, a free, open-source Jev competitor fine-tuned from an Alibaba Qwen base

The race to make AI agents cheaper and faster is moving beyond the models that write their answers.

Reuters ·

DeepSeek says it has partnered with Huawei to develop programming tools for Huawei's Ascend chips, including TileLang, an open-source CUDA alternative

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 ·

After a deadly school strike in Iran, US Central Command changed its targeting process, integrated open-source data, and upgraded Palantir's Maven

The changes include refining processes for vetting targets and adding open-source data feeds to better track civilian movement.

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE ·

Alphabet-owned robotics software company Intrinsic open-sources Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0, giving developers building blocks for physical AI systems

Intrinsic Innovation LLC, the intelligent robotics software company owned by Google LLC's parent Alphabet Inc. …

Lily Hay Newman / Wired ·

Cisco Talos releases CAIRN, an open-source framework designed to classify and analyze AI-integrated malware by tracking AI metadata and behavioral fingerprints

Cisco Talos researchers created a new framework for identifying malware and hacking tools that rely on AI chatbots

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters ·

Temporal, which makes open-source software that helps apps, including AI agents, recover from failure, raised $550M led by Lightspeed at a $12.55B valuation

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 ·

Q&A with Jensen Huang and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue on Nvidia acquiring Hugging Face, scaling the open model ecosystem, closed AI vs. open AI, and more

Following is the unofficial transcript of a CNBC exclusive interview with Nvidia Founder & CEO Jensen Huang …

Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire ·

Resect AI, which is developing open-source tech to catch AI hallucinations before they happen, emerges from stealth with $25M from private equity investors

Chronicling the Seattle and Pacific Northwest startup scene.

Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information ·

Wafer, which makes AI agents that optimize open-source models for a business's workload, raised a $40M Series A, a source says at a $200M+ valuation

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 ·

California's legislature passes a bill exempting open-source OSes like Linux from a 2025 age-verification law; Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android remain in scope

AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

Todd Bishop / GeekWire ·

Amazon agrees to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind open-source database DuckDB, for an undisclosed sum; DuckDB will remain open source

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 front end that let users read X without an account, says X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding a takedown; Nitter.net is now offline

Nitter, an open source project that allowed people to read X posts without logging into or even opening the X app …

Bloomberg ·

Open-source orchestration platform developer Temporal is in talks to raise ~$500M at a $12B+ valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in February

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 says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models

Alibaba Group said its new small-size AI model that customers can run on their own personal computers has been downloaded …

@alibaba_qwen ·

Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding

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 debuts DeepSeek Harness under the MIT license in developer preview, touting a design where "everything is a plugin" that can be swapped out as a plugin

DeepSeek is expanding beyond the model layer and deeper into the software developers use to put AI agents to work.

Tom Wilson / Financial Times ·

Researchers say suspected Chinese hackers used open-source AI agents to build an autonomous hacking tool that compromised Taiwanese government websites in July

AI agents ran simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins in display of new phase of cyberwarfare.

Anhata Rooprai / Reuters ·

IBM and Together AI sign a $240M, multiyear deal to build an AI inference cluster on IBM Cloud, using Nvidia's HGX B300 systems, to support open-source models

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 in Africa are increasingly choosing Chinese open-source AI models over US models, saying they are downloadable, easier to customize, and much cheaper

Developers built Sunflower, an artificial intelligence tool customized for Ugandan languages, using a Chinese model.

Reuters ·

Meituan open-sources LongCat-2.0, a 1.6T-parameter model that it says was trained on a 50K-chip cluster of domestic Chinese processors, without giving details

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 ·

Insurance tech startup Corgi denies accusations that it used Papermark's open source software code to develop its software and present it as its own

Y Combinator-backed insurance tech startup Corgi became embroiled in yet another controversy earlier this week when Papermark …