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Why the ‘spirit’ of open source means much more than a license Arguments about what is and isn’t “open source” are often resolved by deferring to the Open Source Initiative…

Christie’s announces AI art auction, and not everyone is pleased Fine art auction house, Christie’s, has sold AI-generated art before. But soon, it plans to hold its first show dedicated…

Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei claims DeepSeek generated sensitive bioweapons data in a safety test it ran.…

OpenAI plans to open an office in Germany OpenAI is expanding its footprint to Germany. According to a press release issued Friday, the ChatGPT maker plans to open an office…

Anduril in talks to raise up to $2.5B at $28B valuation Just six months after defense tech Anduril raised a massive $1.5 billion round that valued the company at $14…

Trump admin freezes EV charging program that gave Tesla millions The Department of Transportation has paused funding for a $5 billion EV charging infrastructure program that Tesla has received at…

Fintech Rapyd seeks funding at $3.5B valuation, a steep drop from $9B Rapyd Financial Network is reportedly looking to raise $300 million in a new funding at a steep valuation…

Shopify pushes for ‘open trade’ as Trump delays import exemption On the same day that President Donald Trump delayed ending a trade exemption targeting certain Chinese imports, ecommerce company Shopify…

One of Elon Musk’s young DOGE engineers explains how he won the $700K Vesuvius Challenge Elon Musk has reportedly picked fresh-faced six engineers to run DOGE. I spoke to one…

Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to drop its pledge not…