AI
Former Amazon AI leaders raise $12.5M to deploy AI that understands user intent in real time, transforming how millions discover products and content online.
OPEN-SOURCE
The Mobile Voting Foundation and Free & Fair have launched VoteSecure, the first open-source SDK enabling secure, transparent, and verifiable mobile voting with end-to-end ballot tracking and rigorous cryptographic protection.
MESSAGING APPS
Session is a private, anonymous messaging app rated “Excellent” by PCMag. It uses end-to-end encryption and a decentralized network to protect your data, hide metadata, and ensure secure communication without phone numbers or emails.
AI
The Zendesk Foundation’s 2025 Tech for Good Impact Awards recognize nonprofits using AI and technology to create global change across education, conservation, and humanitarian aid.
WEB3
Smashtoshi’s “History of Bitcoin” global tour unites 128 digital artists across five cities, unveiling a limited-edition art book that celebrates Bitcoin’s cultural legacy through fine art and innovation.
CULTURE
Global violence over water surged in 2024, with 420 incidents, a 78% increase since 2022 as conflicts increasingly target water systems, access, and infrastructure.
OPEN-SOURCE
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
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 Contributes to the Development of Surya: A Foundation Model for Space Weather
OPEN-SOURCE
The first open source, automated framework to evaluate AI in mental health
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 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.