Got a spare PC? How I turned mine into an open-source smart home hub for free

Home Assistant OS can serve as a user-friendly control hub for your smart devices. Here's how to get started. [...]

Chinese DoorDash rival smashes open source record with 1.6-trillion-parameter LLM with a 1-million-context-token model crafted without Nvidia hardware

Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained entirely on domestic chips, avoiding Nvidia hardware entirely. [...]

IBM and Red Hat launch Lightwell to defend open-source code from AI attacks

Their plan to protect open-source projects from AI-discovered security holes has led to the launch of two commercial offerings: Lightwell Network and Lightwell Clearinghouse Premier. [...]

'I'm not a programmer' anymore: Linus Torvalds on the only two tools he uses now

At the Open Source Summit in Mumbai, Torvalds discusses the pain and power of AI in the kernel, and why Linux no longer supports 'museum' technology. [...]

Fireworks AI raised $1.5 billion as companies flee costly AI for open-source alternatives

The AI infrastructure startup surpassed $1 billion in annualized revenue, up fivefold year-over-year, as companies seek cheaper alternatives to frontier models [...]

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5, a cheaper AI model for coding, agents and enterprise workflows

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on Friday, a model the company says delivers nearly all the intelligence of its top-of-the-line Claude Fable 5 at half the cost — a launch that signals how the AI ra [...]

Is open source the answer to rogue AI agents? Nvidia's new alliance says yes

As AI cybersecurity incidents ramp up, companies are racing to find a fix. [...]

AI Agents Would Rather Steal Copyrighted Work Than Use Open-source Alternatives

Research has found that AI agents frequently choose copyrighted images when they are presented with free legal alternatives – and even explicit warnings fail to stop every violation. A lot of academ [...]

'Generative AI is already changing what malicious software packages look like and how threat actors are beginning to probe AI-based code systems': Amazon flags North Korean hacker group as being behind the surge in open source supply chain attacks

Amazon linked a North Korean hacking group to software supply chain attacks while warning generative AI is changing malware development techniques. [...]