AI
Gatekeeping Is Bad
"Winning was never in the set of possible outcomes for Anthropic." - Elon Musk
Philip Gjørup
Philip Gjørup is Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief of Open Source Press, covering the intersection of open technology and decentralization. Send tips through Signal to philip.353 or Session ID: phil.
AI
One Does Not Simply... Wait, Templar Just Did: 70B AI Storms Big Tech's Mordor
The banners are raised, as Templar put it. The campaign has begun. And Big Tech's monopoly on frontier AI development just became a lot less certain.
CULTURE
When Governments Cut the Wires, Freedom Tech Becomes a Lifeline
The pattern is becoming impossible to ignore. When governments face protests, their first instinct is to cut communication channels. Ban social media. Shut down the internet. Control the narrative by controlling the pipes. But protesters are adapting faster than authoritarian playbooks can keep up.
AI
How a 21-Year-Old Just Fucking Destroyed Silicon Valley's $100 Billion AI Empire
Silicon Valley's $100 billion AI bluff just got called by a $650,000 decentralized network. And that's only the beginning of what's coming.
OPEN-SOURCE
Microsoft Just Killed GitHub's Independence as Open Source AI Is Pulling Away
Microsoft is essentially playing chess while everyone else plays checkers. They've created a situation where they profit from open source AI development through GitHub while simultaneously controlling the platform that development depends on.
BLOCKCHAIN
They Convicted Roman Storm for Code They Don't Understand
Technology should be judged by its capabilities and legitimate uses, not by its worst-case applications. We don't ban cars because bank robbers use getaway vehicles. We don't criminalize mathematics because cryptography can hide criminal communications.
OPEN-SOURCE
The App That Works When Everything Else Fails
Bitchat works when everything else fails. No internet, no cell towers, no servers just Bluetooth mesh networks that get stronger as more people join. What started as Jack Dorsey's weekend coding session became the communication tool refugees and disaster victims need.
AI
Kimi K2 Just Dropped and It's Already Breaking the AI Market
Kimi K2 is the commoditization of AI happening in real-time. When trillion-parameter agentic intelligence becomes available at commodity prices, the game changes overnight.
ROBOT
Hugging Face's $299 Robot Takes on China's Robotics Revolution
The democratization of robotics just hit a price point that changes everything.
OPEN-SOURCE
PewDiePie Just Red-Pilled 110 Million People on Digital Freedom
PewDiePie, the Swedish creator who built YouTube's biggest individual following by screaming at video games, just delivered one of the most impactful privacy tutorials of 2025. And he did it while wearing a tinfoil hat.
BLOCKCHAIN
Privacy Is Normal, and Writing Code Is Not a Crime
The crypto community rallies behind Roman Storm as the US government escalates its war on financial privacy
OPEN-SOURCE
Google Is Killing Open Source Android While GrapheneOS Fights for Digital Freedom
The most important mobile security project you've likely never heard of is under attack not from hackers or governments, but from Google itself. GrapheneOS just revealed how Big Tech is systematically dismantling open source Android while their lead developer fights a war.