Tumblr backs Tapestry, a timeline app for the open social web

Automattic-owned blogging site and social platform Tumblr has financially backed Tapestry, the newly launched app designed…

Startup Battlefield 200 applications are open

Pre-Series A founders, this is your moment! If you’re ready to showcase your game-changing innovations on…

European shares flat at the open

European shares flat at the open#European #shares #flat #open

AI models explained: The benefits of open source AI models

Open source software has a number of benefits over commercial products, not least the fact…

Open source LLMs hit Europe’s digital sovereignty roadmap

Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe’s digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as…

Google-backed public interest AI partnership launches with $400M+ for open ecosystem building

Make room for yet another partnership on AI: Current AI, which is being billed as a…

These apps are building Instagram alternatives on open protocols

Consumer demand for alternatives to Big Tech’s social apps is heating up. Alternative social networks like…

Why the ‘spirit’ of open source means much more than a license

Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open…

Shopify pushes for ‘open trade’ as Trump delays import exemption

On the same day that President Donald Trump delayed ending a trade exemption targeting certain Chinese…

OpenAI plans to open an office in Germany

OpenAI is expanding its footprint to Germany. According to a press release issued Friday, the ChatGPT…

Researchers created an open rival to OpenAI’s o1 ‘reasoning’ model for under $50

AI researchers at Stanford and the University of Washington were able to train an AI “reasoning”…

State of Open Con 25: Why public sector needs an open approach

Earlier this week, people attending OpenUK’s State of Open Con were presented with a vision…

All change: Weighing up the options for enterprises as open source licences evolve

Potentially heralding a fundamental shift in definitions of open source, HashiCorp moved to more restrictive…

Hugging Face researchers aim to build an ‘open’ version of OpenAI’s deep research tool

A group of developers at AI dev platform Hugging Face, including Thomas Wolf, the company’s co-founder…

A review of Tapestry, an app powered by the growing open web

A new app called Tapestry, which launched Tuesday, aggregates and organizes information from across the web…

Sam Altman: OpenAI has been on the ‘wrong side of history’ concerning open source

To cap off a day of product releases, OpenAI researchers, engineers, and executives, including OpenAI CEO…

RELX: Academic Publisher Ripe For Disruption By Open Access

RELX: Academic Publisher Ripe For Disruption By Open Access #RELX #Academic #Publisher #Ripe #Disruption #Open #Access

Automattic and others back Openvibe, an app that’s unifying the open social web

Openvibe’s clever app that integrates multiple open social networks including Bluesky, Mastodon, Nostr, and Threads, just…

Hugging Face researchers are trying to build a more open version of DeepSeek’s AI ‘reasoning’ model

Barely a week after DeepSeek released its R1 “reasoning” AI model — which sent markets into…

Alibaba’s Qwen team releases AI models that can control PCs and phones

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek might be getting the bulk of the tech industry’s attention this week.…

Viral AI company DeepSeek releases new image model family

DeepSeek, the viral AI company, has released a new set of multimodal AI models that it…

Ditching Meta? Open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp fundraise on Kickstarter

The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively,…