Published on: 2025-06-13 01:12:34
In Brief Meta is dividing its AI department into two new teams, according to a report from Axios. Now the company’s AI personnel will be assigned to an AI products team, or an AGI Foundations unit. No jobs appear to have been cut. The AI products team will focus on consumer-facing efforts like the AI features within Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, as well as Meta’s new stand-alone AI app. The AGI Foundations unit will focus on more of the bigger picture efforts, like improving its Llama mo
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OpenAI is planning to combine multiple products (features or models) into its next foundational model, which is called GPT-5. ChatGPT currently has too many capable models for different tasks. While the models are powerful, it can be confusing because all models have identical names. In a Reddit AMA thread, Jerry Tworek, who is a VP at OpenAI, suggested that there are plans to bring some current models and their capabilities together with the next foundational model. GPT-5 will also make the
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The overlooked masterpiece full of coded messages about World War One 24 April 2025 Share Save Deborah Nicholls-Lee Share Save Trustees of the De Morgan Foundation (Credit: Trustees of the De Morgan Foundation) Esoteric and pioneering, the paintings of a lesser-known Pre-Raphaelite, Evelyn De Morgan, explored the trauma and meaning of war – and prefigured current fantasy art. On a rocky beach that glows red with lava, smoke-breathing dragons surround wretched-looking prisoners beseeching an
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It would seem that the money-making days for CryptoPunks, one of the oldest and most valuable NFT brands, are well and truly over. After acquiring the non-fungible token collection from Larva Labs in 2022, Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs is now selling CryptoPunks to Infinite Node Foundation — a non-profit focused on preserving digital art. CryptoPunks, alongside brands like Bored Ape Yacht Club and CryptoKitties, is frequently credited for kicking off the NFT craze in 2021. Several toke
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During the 25th anniversary celebration of the Gates Foundation, Bill Gates has announced that he was planning to give away "virtually all" of his wealth within the next 20 years. In all, he expects to distribute approximately $200 billion until the foundation shuts down on December 31, 2045, which as The New York Times notes is decades before originally intended. The Gates Foundation has funded several causes since it was founded in the year 2005 by Bill and his then-wife Melinda French Gates,
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In Brief Sankaet Pathak’s last startup, fintech Synapse, filed for bankruptcy in 2024 amid issues with partner Evolve Bank & Trust. Tens of millions of dollars in deposits made by consumers, mostly customers of fintechs that worked with Synapse, remain unaccounted for. Yet according to The Information, Pathak is reportedly moving full steam ahead on attempts to fundraise for his new venture, humanoid robotics startup Foundation. Pathak is said to be in the midst of raising $100 million for Fou
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Wikimedia says it shouldn't be held to the same standard as Facebook or X. The Wikimedia Foundation, hosts of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia , is challenging an aspect of the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA). The law aims to protect users from harmful online content by imposing restrictions and fines on large internet platforms such as social media companies. While the law was originally passed in 2023, enforcement and categorization of companies subject to the law are only taki
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The Gates Foundation received a death sentence of sorts today. Microsoft co-founder turned billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said today that his foundation will have just 20 years to exhaust its coffers and wind down operations. He has pledged to donate 99% of his fortune, which today is worth an estimated $107 billion, to the foundation. Over the next 20 years of donations, he expects the foundation to spend more than $200 billion. “This decision comes at a moment of reflection for me,” G
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Latest iteration bolsters open, scalable, community-driven search and analytics, enabling sustainable innovation SAN FRANCISCO – May 6, 2025 – The OpenSearch Software Foundation, the vendor-neutral home for the OpenSearch Project, today announced the general availability of OpenSearch 3.0. This major release delivers a 9.5x performance improvement over OpenSearch 1.3, building on benchmarking data that showed earlier iterations of OpenSearch operating 1.6x faster than its closest industry compe
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We have our first teaser for the upcoming third season of Foundation. It's been nearly two years, but the third season of Foundation, Apple TV+'s epic adaptation (or remix) of the Isaac Asimov series, is almost here. The streaming platform released an action-packed teaser of what we can expect from the new ten-episode season: the onset of the Third Crisis, a galactic war, and a shirtless Lee Pace. (Some spoilers for first two seasons below.) Showrunner David S. Goyer took great pains in S1 to
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Foundation season 3 is coming soon. Apple TV+ just announced the release date for the next chapter of its sci-fi epic, and debuted the first teaser trailer. Foundation season 3 debuts on July 11 Apple TV+ might be best known for Severance, but it has another big-budget sci-fi epic with a loyal following. Foundation, based on Isaac Asimov’s award-winning book series, has two full seasons available on Apple TV+ and the third is coming soon. Foundation season 3 will arrive on Friday, July 11 wi
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Foundation season two wrapped up in September 2023—a thrilling, thoroughly entertaining outing that improved upon season one in many ways. Will that trend continue for the third season of Apple TV+‘s Isaac Asimov adaptation? It seems highly likely considering the teaser and first-look images the streamer just shared, along with a premiere date: July 11. Despite some behind-the-scenes duty-shifting that saw David S. Goyer stepping back as showrunner, though he’s still very much involved with the
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GenAI-accelerated TLA+ challenge The TLA+ Foundation, in collaboration with NVIDIA, is pleased to announce the GenAI-accelerated TLA+ challenge—an open call for submissions that explore the intersection of TLA+ and generative AI. This initiative aims to foster practical and innovative tooling, workflows, and approaches that bring the capabilities of generative AI and LLMs to TLA+. Participants are invited to develop engineering-oriented solutions that advance the usability, accessibility, and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-18 13:08:44
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More With cyberattacks accelerating at machine speed, open-source large language models (LLMs) have quickly become the infrastructure that enables startups and global cybersecurity leaders to develop and deploy adaptive, cost-effective defenses against threats that evolve faster than human analysts can respond. Open-source LLMs’ initial advantages of faster time-to-market,
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by Lance Albertson on Wed, Apr 30 2025 I am writing to inform you about a critical and time-sensitive situation facing the Open Source Lab. Over the past several years, we have been operating at a deficit due to a decline in corporate donations. While OSU’s College of Engineering (CoE) has generously filled this gap, recent changes in university funding have led to a significant reduction in CoE’s budget. As a result, our current funding model is no longer sustainable and CoE needs to find ways
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Between scrubbing government websites of information about everything from vaccine efficacy to LGBT health matters and the ongoing war with higher education, the Trump administration seems to have a problem with freely available information that doesn’t align with its particular ideology. That war on knowledge appears to have extended to Wikipedia. Earlier this week, a Trump appointed attorney sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation accusing it of allowing the spread of propaganda and threaten
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It seems like a universal truth that anyone who has ever worn foundation has struggled to find a shade match. The BoldHue, released in March 2025, is a smart device that aims to solve this problem. I feel like my own skin tone changes from week to week. My base undertone is neutral, leaning olive, and I’m usually somewhere in the nebulous foundation shade range known as “medium.” I’m biracial, and I feel like there are stark differences between my summer skin tone and my winter skin tone (espec
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The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of “allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public.” In the letter dated April 24, Ed Martin said he sought to determine whether the Wikimedia Foundation’s behavior is in violation of its Section 501(c)(3) status. Martin asked the foundation to provide detailed information about its editorial process, its tr
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The United States government has found itself on bit of a cancelation spree as of late, terminating critical programs with all the subtlety and care of a bull in a china shop. Late yesterday, we got word that the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database (CVE) was about to lose its funding. Considering how critical a role the CVE plays in naming and tracking the sort of security vulnerabilities that malware is always looking to exploit, this felt like a huge, unacceptable risk for the tech i
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2025 CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program [Bremerton, Washington] – The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term viability, stability, and independence of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program, a critical pillar of the global cybersecurity infrastructure for 25 years. Since its inception, the CVE Program has operated as a U.S. government-funded initiative, with oversight and management pro
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2025 CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program [Bremerton, Washington] – The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term viability, stability, and independence of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program, a critical pillar of the global cybersecurity infrastructure for 25 years. Since its inception, the CVE Program has operated as a U.S. government-funded initiative, with oversight and management pro
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-23 16:00:00
The Linux Foundation has become something of a misnomer through the years. It has extended far beyond its roots as the steward of the Linux kernel, emerging as a sprawling umbrella outfit for a thousand open source projects spanning cloud infrastructure, security, digital wallets, enterprise search, fintech, maps, and more. Last month, the OpenInfra Foundation — best known for OpenStack — became the latest addition to its stable, further cementing the Linux Foundation’s status as a “foundation
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The International Game Developers Association Foundation (IGDA-F) has appointed former Microsoft exec Shannon Loftis as the new chair of its board of directors. She replaces another fellow Microsoft alumni Ed Fries, who is stepping down after a successful 2 years leading the organization and will remain on the board. After more than 30 years of experience in game development at Microsoft and beyond, Loftis retired from her job running the Age of Empires studio at Microsoft in 2022. With her co
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On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia's servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up terabytes of data, growing the foundation's bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content by 50 percent since January 2024. It’s a scenario familiar across the free and open source software (FOSS) community, as we've previously detailed. The Foundation hosts not only Wikipedia but also platforms lik
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The ESA Foundation celebrated its 23rd annual Nite to Unite fundraiser for children on March 18, raising $1.25 million. The funds raised will support the foundation’s grants and scholarships for the next generation of game makers and charitable organizations with science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) youth programs. The event also honored Riot Games as the Champion Award honoree for 2025. Since its inception in 1994, the ESA Foundation — created by the game industry trade gro
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Mud, water and wood: The system that kept a 1604-year-old city afloat 1 day ago Share Save Anna Bressanin Share Save Emmanuel Lafont/ BBC (Credit: Emmanuel Lafont/ BBC) Most modern structures are built to last 50 years or so, but ingenious ancient engineering has kept this watery city afloat for more than 1,600 years – using only wood. As any local knows, Venice is an upside-down forest. The city, which turned 1604 years old on March 25, is built on the foundations of millions of short woode
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This study was sponsored by the Army Research Office and was accomplished under Cooperative Agreement Nos. W911NF-18-2-0048 and W911NF-23-2-0121. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Army Research Office of the US Government. The US Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for Government purposes notwithstanding any copyright notat
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abzee/Getty Images Open-source code has become a malware vector. For example, by the closest of shaves, an open-source developer discovered that Jia Tan, a chief programmer and maintainer of the Linux xz data compression library, was also a hacker who'd put a backdoor in the code to enable attackers to take over Linux systems. One of the root problems? No one knew who Tan was. We still don't know. Jim Zemlin, the Linux Foundation's executive director, addressed this fundamental problem of deve
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Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which was meant to become an open-source option for running an AWS-style cloud inside of private data centers. The two companies then moved OpenStack to the OpenStack Foundation, which has steadfastly shepherded the project through its many ups and downs. Right now, with the controversy around Broadcom’s licensing changes to VMware’s offerings, OpenStack is back on an upswing, as enterprises look for an alternative. Today, th
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Linux foundation and OpenInfra/ZDNET To strengthen the open-source community, the Linux Foundation and the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra) have announced plans for OpenInfra to join the Linux Foundation as a member foundation. This decision follows unanimous approval from both organizations' boards and aims to unite their vibrant global ecosystems to provide trusted open-source solutions. Also: Gartner identifies top trends in data and analytics for 2025 - and AI takes the lead The
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