Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a preview of its hotly anticipated next-generation AI model V4 on Friday, saying that the open-source model can compete with leading closed-source systems from US rivals including Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. …
… But he also knew that Bambu’s code was open-source under AGPL, a license so permissive that Google famously banned its engineers from using it at all. The developer wanted to know: What, specifically, had he done wrong if the code was open-source? …
… But with the extra complications that open-source software poses, Carl Richell and others hope at a minimum, lawmakers will offer carveouts for it. “SB51 is about identifying who’s a kid in a closed ecosystem,” he said. “Applying that broadly can push age verification into open systems that were ne… …
Open source tech creators Diolinux have released a free patch that rearranges the Gimp UI to resemble Adobe’s Photoshop editing software. …
… It made all the AI labs immediately sit up and take notice, but OpenAI was one of the first players to take action, acquiring OpenClaw though it remains open-source in February and hiring its creator Peter Steinberger. …
… All of Nanoleaf’s products have open APIs, and Chu is keen to eventually open-source the code. “That is the direction that technology is going. With our lighting products and with most smart home products, the more open that you can make it, the more compatible with AI it can be,” he says. …
Spotify and the three major labels have won a $322 million default judgement against Anna’s Archive, the open-source library and pirate activist group that planned to publicly release millions of music files scraped from Spotify’s platform. …
… Mazumdar said it’s been testing out Cerebras, which is popular for open-weight models, lately, “in anticipation of how expensive things will get” from the premier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. “ Big AI companies have been giving this away for free,” Mazumdar said. “What they’re trying to do is, t… …
… It’s a similarly pocketable electronic multi-tool but also a tiny open source Linux computer powered by an 8-core RK3576 processor with a GPU, a 6 TOPS NPU, and 8GB of RAM. …
… Blender, the free open-source 3D computer graphics software suite, is continually gaining new features, and has proved capable enough to be used in Oscar-winning feature film releases. …