Digital sovereignty at the UN: Inside the global push to replace US cloud giants with open-source tech

Digital sovereignty emerged as the defining theme of this year's UN Open Source Week, with many arguing that open source is now core critical infrastructure and that proprietary American companie [...]

Meta sees early signs of self-improving AI, signals caution on open source plans

Meta says it's starting to see the first signs of AI systems that can improve themselves.<br /> The article Meta sees early signs of self-improving AI, signals caution on open source plans [...]

Tencent's X-Omni uses open source components to challenge GPT-4o image generation

Tencent's X-Omni team shows how reinforcement learning can fix the usual weaknesses of hybrid image AI systems. The model excels at rendering long texts in images and sometimes sets new performan [...]

AWS nabs white hot gen AI media creation startup fal, becoming its preferred cloud provider

Generative AI’s rapid transition from text-based chatbots to high-fidelity media—spanning images, video, spatial 3D, and audio—has exposed a glaring bottleneck in the modern tech stack: infrastr [...]

Alibaba releases Qwen3 compact open source multimodal models

Alibaba's Qwen group has released two new small-scale multimodal models, Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct and Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Thinking.<br /> The article Alibaba releases Qwen3 compact open sourc [...]

Windscribe review: Despite the annoyances, it has the right idea

Windscribe is a virtual private network (VPN) with intense "How do you do, fellow kids?" energy. It has servers in 69 countries and an annual plan that costs $69, an obsession with the sex n [...]

Baidu's latest ERNIE model brings visual reasoning to open-source AI

Baidu has launched ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, a new AI model that can process images as part of its reasoning process.<br /> The article Baidu's latest ERNIE model brings visual reasoni [...]

Deepseek V3.2 rivals GPT-5 and Gemini 3 Pro, reaches IMO gold level as open source

Chinese AI lab Deepseek has unveiled V3.2, a new language model that matches GPT-5 and Google's Gemini 3 Pro in key benchmarks and reasoning tasks.<br /> The article Deepseek V3.2 rivals GP [...]

Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI and Nvidia already on board

For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflo [...]