Open source doesn’t guarantee responsible AI. But it increasingly makes responsible evaluation possible for smaller organizations.

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...

Does vibe coding risk destroying the Open Source ecosystem? According to a pre-print paper by a number of high-profile researchers, this might indeed be the case based on observed patterns and some ...

Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name, has returned its main system to an open source license, although the move failed to satisfy some critics.… Adding the GNU ...

Edge AI reached an inflection point in 2025. What had long been demonstrated in controlled pilots—local inference, reduced latency, and improved system autonomy—began to transition into scalable, ...

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OpenAI is an artificial intelligence organization comprised of the non-profit OpenAI, Inc. and several for-profit subsidiaries. The company is perhaps best known for its ChatGPT chatbot, which ...

AI coding tools have enabled a flood of bad code that threatens to overwhelm many projects. Building new features is easier ...

Open-source code, from Linux to Netscape, was supposed to cause its collapse in the 1990s.

Bitcoin is increasingly behaving like a software stock, with its latest correction unfolding alongside the broader software sell-off. The relationship between bitcoin and software equities has ...

OpenClaw has sparked heavy Telegram and dark web chatter, but Flare's data shows more research hype than mass exploitation. Flare explains how its telemetry found real supply-chain risk in the skills ...