The startup behind popular Github project vLLM is out fundraising, as venture capitalists hunt for companies building tech that can make AI systems run more efficiently. Investors are about to wager ...

What if the future of artificial intelligence wasn’t locked behind corporate walls, but instead, open for everyone to explore, innovate, and shape? The rise of open source AI is turning this vision ...

A recent post on X (formerly Twitter) called attention to the fact that many popular open source projects, like WordPress, are run by a single person, often referred to as a Benevolent Dictator For ...

A North Korean cyberattack that last Monday briefly hijacked one of the most widely used open source projects on the web took weeks to carry out as part of a long-running campaign to target the code’s ...

Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project of the same name, has raised €18 million (about $21 million) in a Series A round led by Accel, with participation from Bain ...

The people who keep open-source software running and secure are being flooded with reports from an unlikely source: autonomous AI agents. Why it matters: Open-source software is the foundation of the ...

OpenAI announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Astral, the company behind popular open source Python development tools such as uv, Ruff, and ty, and integrate the company ...

In February, The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) initiated the Open Source Project Security Baseline (OSPS Baseline) to establish minimum security requirements for ...

Top open-source maintainers find that AI has suddenly become much more useful. There are still legal and 'AI slop' problems to overcome. By year's end, AI programming tools should be much more ...

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...