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The future of Open Source
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- 2016first covered
- 19 Mar 2026latest update
- 2linked technologies
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- AI Agents get five fold faster access to NYSE data thanks to Redpanda dealComputing
- AI agent slams human developer for gate keeping codeSecurity and privacy
- A decade after AlphaGo AI trained Go players are all thinking alikeAI and intelligence
- 16 Claude Code Agents Built a New C Compiler for $20,000 From Scratch in 2 weeksAI and intelligence
- AI Agents Get Busy Building Their Own Social NetworkAI and intelligence
- GPT-5 Codex is using itself to improve itself according to OpenAIAI and intelligence
- The world’s first Space AI is born in orbitAI and intelligence
- China unveils plans to become a fully AI economy by 2035AI and intelligence
- AI helps criminals exploit CVE vulnerabilities 5 minutes after publicationSecurity and privacy
- Anthropic fights tooth and nail to keep their AI model weights secretSecurity and privacy
- AI2 Olmo traces everything your LLM does back to its original sourceAI and intelligence
- A lone dev managed to run a Linux computer in an Excel spreadsheetComputing
- This new AI forensic tool reanimates the mind of rogue AISecurity and privacy
- Elon Musk debuts Grok 3 as the world’s smartest AIAI and intelligence
- Researchers trained an OpenAI rival in half an hour for $50AI and intelligence
- Hugging Face wants to reverse engineer DeepSeek R1’s reasoning modelAI and intelligence
- Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek discovered censoring itself in real timeSecurity and privacy
- Anthropic proposes a new way to connect data to chatbotsAI and intelligence
- Jailbreaking the world’s most advanced LLM based robots is super easySecurity and privacy
- Nvidia’s new AI can now generate synthetic sounds that have never existed beforeAI and intelligence
- Meta thinks AI needs a body to be truly intelligentRobotics
- This game changing Augmented reality laptop lands this OctoberVirtual worlds
- California passes first controversial AI Kill BillSecurity and privacy
- Hackers warn of new Zero Click attacks against Gen AI appsSecurity and privacy
- Smart grid flaw gives home user complete control 200Mw of generating capacitySecurity and privacy
- AI Middleware could become your company’s biggest insider threatSecurity and privacy
- Three major protocol players join forces to create decentralised AI servicesAI and intelligence
- Another kid just built a fully functional RISC-V computer inside a computer gameComputing
- Profluents open source AI CRISPR tool brings gene editing to the massesBiotech and enhanced humans
- Lone researcher stops one of the biggest open source backdoor attacks in historySecurity and privacy
- Unpatched vulnerabilities in AI models give hackers backdoor accessSecurity and privacy
- Critical flaws in open source AI frameworks let hackers run rifeSecurity and privacy
- Apple quietly launches its multi modal AI LLM rival called FerretAI and intelligence
- AI just discovered another 200 CRISPR-like gene editing systemsBiotech and enhanced humans
- Google’s DeepMind AI just invented 380,000 new compoundsIndustry and manufacturing
- OpenAI seeks new private AI training datasets to help them realise AGIAI and intelligence
- Researchers warn we could run out of data to train AI’s by 2026AI and intelligence
- Generative AI is accelerating financial fraud on an epic scale and it’s getting worseSecurity and privacy
- Googles new quantum safe security keys thwart future quantum hackersSecurity and privacy
- DeepMinds new AI designed a new algorithm to speed up global computingAI and intelligence
- Stanford researchers created a ChatGPT clone for $600 then shut it downAI and intelligence
- OpenAI makes it easier to create 3D objects from text promptsAI and intelligence
- Devs used hacks to create AutoGPT an almost fully autonomous AI and open sourced itRobotics
- Hackers inject Trojans and Ransomware into open source AI models to hack youSecurity and privacy
- As Web 3.0 gets going Jack Dorsey just announced Web 5.0Connected society
- Microsoft AI that discovers 97 percent of critical software security flaws releasedSecurity and privacy
- Ownerless companies on the rise as startups experiment with new business modelsConnected society
- Walmart improves public safety by putting pork on the blockchainConnected society
- Intel cosies up to ARM and stalks AppleComputing
- Google is making its own custom AI chipsComputing
- Inside OpenAI, the company setting AI freeAI and intelligence
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