This duck will teach you reinforcement learning — and pick up your socks
You could have a mechanical duck waddling through your home before Christmas.  Hugging Face‘s Pollen Robotics on Thursday opened pre-orde…
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OpenClaw went viral. Meet the maintainers building and securing it.
OpenClaw is the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Peter Steinberger and several maintainers share what they learned in the project's first…
Nvidia doesn’t need to block rival chips on Hugging Face. It just needs the defaults.
Nvidia has reportedly agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, putting one of the biggest names in AI hardware The post Nvidia doesn’t need to…
X sent Nitter a cease-and-desist. Then it went after the source code.
When Elon Musk’s X sent cease-and-desist letters demanding that Nitter — an open-source alternative front end for the social media The p…
Google's HEIR Aims to Make Homomorphic-Encrypted Inference a One-Click Capability
Google is introducing HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation), an open-source compiler and development toolchain designed to make…
The open mainframe: the keystone of the end-to-end digital enterprise
In the first article in this series, I discussed how the Open Mainframe Project (OMP) and its open-source framework, Zowe, The post The open mainfra…
AWS Releases Aws-Bench to Evaluate Agents on Cloud Tasks
AWS has released aws-bench, an open-source benchmark for evaluating AI agents on real AWS tasks such as misconfigurations and infrastructure provisi…
Cloudflare Cuts Astro Github Issues by 85% with AI Agents
Cloudflare, Astro, AI agents, GitHub Actions, issue triage, agentic AI, software architecture, open source, developer tools, AI automation, automate…
Debian just proposed banning AI code. Here’s why it matters for open source developers & maintainers.
The board behind open source operating system Debian has tabled proposals for and against the use of LLM-assisted contributions in The post Debian j…
How to build smarter OpenSearch alerts: Join our live conversation
OpenSearch is a top-level open-source project under the Linux Foundation, backed by Amazon Web Services and other prominent players. The The post Ho…
An open source rival to Claude Managed Agents just launched
AI infrastructure platform company TrueFoundry has launched its open source agent harness TrueForge. The technology is directly billed as an The pos…
Is Open-Source AI Really the Dangerous Path?
The following article originally appeared on the Tech Policy Press site and is being republished here with the author’s permission. In Washington, A…
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman: Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 likely to “significantly accelerate the threat landscape”
OpenAI has adopted a less-than-straightforward stance with regards to open-weight AI models, both raising alarms over powerful Chinese releases whil…
“Open weights are nowhere near a sufficient solution”: Dario Amodei fires back on AI power
The independence developers gain from open weights comes with a hard infrastructure ceiling, according to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. “AI The…
AWS Open-Sources Dogwood, Extending Cedar to Govern Sequences of Agent Tool Calls
AWS has open-sourced Dogwood, a policy language extending Cedar with temporal conditions so rules can reason about an agent's prior tool calls rathe…
Alibaba’s new model promises Opus 4.6-level performance on your laptop
Alibaba recently made the open weights of its 2.4 trillion parameter Qwen3.8 model available. That’s a massive model, and its The post Alibaba…
DeepSeek open sources an agent harness where everything is a plugin
DeepSeek on Thursday open sourced the DeepSeek Harness, a new agent runtime for developers. The Node.js-based harness is now available The post Deep…
What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era
See how the open source projects in Session 4 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund combined AI-assisted workflows, maintainer expertise, GitHub sec…
Your contributors are AI-first now. Is your project?
AI contributors are already in your queue. AutoGPT maintainer Nicholas Tindle shares the repo instructions, gates, and boundaries that keep maintain…
Coding agents ignore open source contribution guidelines, researchers find.
Autonomous coding agents ignore contribution rules in open source communities, finds a new study from researchers at Peking University.  That&#…
Nvidia launches a smaller, faster Nemotron model and a router to put it to work
Nvidia on Tuesday launched Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, the newest member of its Nemotron 3 family of open models. In addition, The post Nvidia launches…
IBM and Red Hat Expand Lightwell to Strengthen Trust and Governance for AI-Era Open Source
IBM and Red Hat have announced an expansion of Lightwell, introducing new commercial offerings designed to help organizations establish trusted, ver…
GitHub Hardens npm and Actions Defaults, Drawing Debate over Delays versus Signing
GitHub consolidated the npm and Actions changes it shipped from March to July 2026 against supply chain attacks, several of which alter defaults rat…
npm Staged Publishing Available, Adding a Human Approval Step Before Packages Go Live
npm has introduced staged publishing for Node.js, requiring maintainer approval before a version is installable. Versions are queued and must pass a…
Your AI agent’s next tool call may be valid but wrong. AWS’s Dogwood promises to fix that.
AWS on Thursday launched Dogwood, an open-source policy language and reference interpreter that lets developers govern sequences of AI agent The pos…
Astro’s GitHub issue backlog is heading to zero for the first time in 5 years. Now Cloudflare is open-sourcing the tool that did it.
Most open source maintainers will know the feeling of opening GitHub to a growing pile of issues that can’t feasibly The post Astro’s Gi…
DeepSeek’s smaller model just outperformed its own flagship
DeepSeek has launched DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, delivering a significant boost in agent performance without changing the model’s core architectu…
Don’t stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed
How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at 45 GiB/s on a single core. The post Don’t s…
The AI “vibe shift”: Why NanoClaw and Echo have teamed up to stop the next Hugging Face Breach
Gavriel Cohen describes this moment in four words.  “There’s been a clear vibe shift,” the NanoClaw co-founder and CEO tells…
When vendor-supplied support matters: How AI is changing the open source security equation
Every enterprise runs on open source, but keeping it secure has become significantly harder. Frontier AI models are uncovering vulnerabilities The p…