A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more

With a focus on expressive quality, reproducibility, and open access, Dia adds a distinctive new voice to the landscape of text-to-speech. [...]

GitHub confirms 3,800 internal repos stolen through poisoned VS Code extension as supply chain worm hits Microsoft’s Python SDK

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and au [...]

Framework Laptop 12 review: Doing the right thing comes at a cost

Earlier this year, Framework announced it was making a smaller, 12-inch laptop and a beefy desktop to go alongside its 13- and 16-inch notebooks. A few months later, and the former has arrived, puttin [...]

Mira Murati says her startup Thinking Machines will release new product in ‘months’ with ‘significant open source component’

Backed by $2B and with OpenAI’s open-weight model now in limbo, Thinking Machines could capture developer attention and interest. [...]

Why OpenAI’s open-source models matter

The AI giant’s “OSS” models are free to use and adapt, and could give the open-source community a serious lift. [...]

Brave or foolhardy? Huawei takes the fight to Nvidia CUDA by making its Ascend AI GPU software open source

Huawei is open-sourcing its CANN toolkit for Ascend AI GPUs, aiming to rival Nvidia CUDA. [...]

Portugal open-sources Amália, its first national AI model, in a bet on European Portuguese

A country of just over 10 million people now has a large language model that speaks its own version of the language. Portugal has released Amália, its first national AI model built specifically for E [...]

OpenAGI emerges from stealth with an AI agent that it claims crushes OpenAI and Anthropic

A stealth artificial intelligence startup founded by an MIT researcher emerged this morning with an ambitious claim: its new AI model can control computers better than systems built by OpenAI and Anth [...]

NordVPN just made its Linux GUI app open-source, and there's more on the way

NordVPN has open-sourced its Linux GUI app and updated its Snap package to include it, with Meshnet set to be next. [...]