CULTURE
Pacific Institute Analysis Finds Surge in Reported Water-Related Violence
Global violence over water surged in 2024, with 420 incidents, a 78% increase since 2022 as conflicts increasingly target water systems, access, and infrastructure.
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OPEN-SOURCE
How Eddy Xu Open-Sourced the Future of Robotics
Eddy Xu manufactured hardware, deployed it across 85 factories, and released 10,000 hours of robotics training data for free. His dataset hit #1 on Hugging Face, beating trillion-dollar companies.
GUEST OPINIONS
Open-Source Software Testing Tools like Selenium and Playwright Will Continue to Dominate the Software Testing Market Even in the Era of Generative AI
The era of AI-driven automation is redefining software testing, but open-source tools like Selenium and Playwright are emerging stronger than ever.
SCIENCE
USRA Supports Development of Surya, a New AI Model for Space Weather Research
USRA Contributes to the Development of Surya: A Foundation Model for Space Weather
OPEN-SOURCE
Spring Health and Expert Council Release VERA-MH, the First Open-Source Evaluation for Validating AI in Mental Health
The first open source, automated framework to evaluate AI in mental health
AI
This Youtuber Just Taught Millions How to Build Their Own AI
Six months after teaching millions to escape Google's surveillance, PewDiePie is back with something more radical: showing his 110 million subscribers how to build and run their own AI models. With a $20K rig in rural Japan, he's proving you don't need OpenAI's permission, or monthly fees
OPEN-SOURCE
ENCORD LAUNCHES WORLD'S LARGEST OPEN SOURCE MULTIMODAL DATASET TO ACCELERATE MULTIMODAL AI DEVELOPMENT
Encord announced that it has released the largest open source multimodal dataset in the world empowering AI developers to build and deploy sophisticated multimodal AI systems.
AI
Topaz Labs Unveils Breakthrough Agentic AI for Photos
Topaz Labs and Texas A&M have created the first agentic photo restoration system that thinks like a professional editor.
OPEN-SOURCE
Astrix Releases Open-Source Tool to Fix MCP Server Credential Risks
Astrix's new open-source tool, 'MCP Secret Wrapper', helps eliminate systemic credential risks in AI agent development, after research found that the majority of MCP servers rely on hard-coded credentials.
OPEN-SOURCE
Extropic Unveils THRML: Open Source Software for a Thermodynamic Future in AI
Extropic’s new open source library, THRML, empowers developers to simulate and train energy-efficient generative AI models on thermodynamic hardware.
SCIENCE
Open-Source AI Tool by Yandex Detects Signs of Infant Cerebral
The world’s first AI solution for assessing brain development in infants under 12 months of age. The neural network automates MRI analysis, cutting processing time from several days to just minutes.
DATA CENTERS
Half the Internet Just Broke
Half the internet just broke because one company had a DNS problem in one datacenter. That's not acceptable for systems billions of people depend on daily.