Google launches Gemma 4, a new open-source model: How to try it

Google's newest Gemma model is now both open-weight and open-source ...
Hackaday

Open Source Hardware, How Open Do You Want It To Be?

In our wider community we are all familiar with the idea of open source software. Many of us run it as our everyday tools, a lot of us release our work under an open source licence, and we have a ...

Trusting AI is dangerous. It’s time for an open-source revival

PCWorld explores how AI’s rise makes open-source software essential for security, as closed-source code can hide malicious ...
ZDNet

I found an open-source NotebookLM alternative that's powerful, private - and free

Open Notebook is an open-source take on NotebookLM. Open Notebook can be installed and used for free. You do have to understand Linux and containers to deploy it. NotebookLM has become an incredibly ...

How AI has suddenly become much more useful to open-source developers

How AI has suddenly become much more useful to open-source developers ...
TechCrunch

Open source software companies that go proprietary: A timeline

Open source might be the building blocks of the modern software stack, but companies building businesses off the back of open source software face a perennial struggle between keeping their community ...
InfoWorld

Guest Blog: Open source expert speaks out on GPLv3

Mark Radcliffe joins us this week to give his expert opinion on the latest draft of GPLv3. Mark is a friend and one of the industry's premier IP attorneys, especially with open source licensing ...
Forbes

What Leaders Need To Know About Open-Source Vs. Proprietary Models

HONG KONG, CHINA - JANUARY 28: In this photo illustration, the DeepSeek logo is seen next to the Chat GPT logo on a phone on January 28, 2025 in Hong Kong, China. (Photo illustration by Anthony ...
Forbes

Misconceptions About Open-Source Solutions Clarified By Tech Experts

Open-source solutions power modern enterprises, underlying everything from website builds to ready-made and custom applications. Small and large companies alike leverage open-source office suites, and ...
Wired

Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing

Y Combinator is famed for its Demo Days, where portfolio companies pitch their apps and wares in hopes of growing from a fledgling company into the next Airbnb. But on Thursday, the startup incubator ...
csis.org

Defense Priorities in the Open-Source AI Debate

A spirited debate is taking place over the regulation of open foundation models—artificial intelligence models whose underlying architectures and parameters are made public and can be inspected, ...
InfoWorld

Is AI killing open source?

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 ...