OPEN-SOURCE
The corporate-political machine thrives on information asymmetry. They know what they're pumping into the air; you don't. They have access to internal emissions data; you don't. They can afford teams of lawyers and PR specialists to obfuscate responsibility; you can't.
OPEN-SOURCE
E-commerce platform Gumroad has announced it is officially open-sourcing its entire codebase, marking a significant milestone for the creator economy platform that has helped creators earn over $1 billion since its founding in 2011. The company shared the news on X, highlighting that after 14 years of supporting independent creators,
BLOCKCHAIN
A solo miner using a Bitaxe from home has mined Bitcoin block 888,989 marking a major win for decentralized mining. In a landmark event for the Bitcoin ecosystem, block 888,989 has been successfully mined from a home-based solo mining setup, using a Bitaxe open-source SHA256 Bitcoin miner, without
AI
Lee Kai-fu, founder and CEO of Chinese AI start-up 01.AI and former head of Google China, has repositioned his company to leverage DeepSeek's open-source models rather than continuing to develop proprietary alternatives, according to an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post.
AI
A newly published paper by BitMind presents a decentralized framework poised to fundamentally change deepfake detection. As AI-generated media becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish from authentic content, this innovative system harnesses blockchain technology and market-based incentives to promote what the paper describes as an evolutionary competition among detection algorithms -
OPEN-SOURCE
In a groundbreaking study that could reshape how we understand the digital economy, Harvard Business School researchers have uncovered that open source software (OSS) creates a staggering $8.8 trillion in economic value worldwide—despite costing just $4.15 billion to develop.
AI
Shanghai-based robotics firm Fourier Intelligence has released an open-source full-size humanoid robot dataset called Fourier ActionNet, along with what it describes as the world's first full-process tool-chain, according to an announcement on the company's WeChat account Monday.
AI
AI hardware company Cerebras has partnered with Hugging Face to integrate its powerful inference capabilities into the Hugging Face Hub, providing over 5 million developers with access to models running on Cerebras' CS-3 system. The integration, now available on the Hugging Face platform, processes more than 2,000 tokens
AI
An open-source AI model has matched the performance of a leading proprietary AI tool in solving challenging medical cases that require complex clinical reasoning, according to a new NIH-funded study led by researchers at Harvard Medical School.
AI
“we are in the early stage of a revolution companies should focus on breakthroughs instead of monetization”
AI
Nous Research has announced the release of its latest AI models, DeepHermes 24B and 3B Preview, introducing what they call "Hybrid Reasoners" to the open-source AI ecosystem.
OPEN-SOURCE
Jay Graber at SXSW 2025, wearing a shirt with "mundus sine caesaribus" — Latin for "a world without Caesars."