The ‘death zone’: how free Chinese models are hollowing out US AI

China’s open-source AI push has created what Bloomberg calls a ‘death zone’ for rival American model makers. The phrase captures a squeeze on the middle of the market, where US companies are too [...]

Mistral CEO warns closed AI models give providers ‘immense leverage’ over your business

Arthur Mensch, cofounder and chief executive of French AI lab Mistral, has urged enterprise leaders to abandon closed AI models. In a LinkedIn post, he argued that closed providers are now forcing da [...]

My 5 favorite open source operating systems that aren't Linux

Looking for non-Linux open-source options? From ghosts of past operating systems to fascinating works in progress, here are my top picks. [...]

‘Stop calling it a hobby and start treating it as infrastructure’: EXANTE calls out the underfunding of widely used open source projects

Despite the growing importance of open source software, most widely used projects are underfunded because they’re not glamorous enough. [...]

The open source blind spot in our supply chains

Supply chain attacks are increasing in volume, but open source vulnerabilities continue relatively unnoticed. [...]

Midjourney engineer debuts new vibe coded, open source standard Pretext to revolutionize web design

For three decades, the web has existed in a state of architectural denial. It is a platform originally conceived to share static physics papers, yet it is now tasked with rendering the most complex, i [...]

French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M

The French open-source orchestration platform has grown enterprise revenue 25x in 18 months and executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025. RTP Global leads the round; total funding reaches $36M. Kestr [...]

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

More open-source developers are finding that, when used properly, AI can actually help current and long-neglected programs. However, legal and quality issues loom. [...]

Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones

Now open-source under Apache 2.0, Gemma 4 brings offline, multimodal AI to servers, phones, and Raspberry Pi - giving developers total local control over edge and on-premises deployments. [...]