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Why open-source AI became an American national priority
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI,” as one of the administration’s top priorities. The…
Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media | TechCrunch
Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey isn’t just vibe-coding new social apps, like Bitchat and Sun Day, he has invested $10 million in an effort to fund experimental open source projects and other tools that could ultimately transform the social media landscape. These efforts are funneled through an online collective called “and Other Stuff,”…
Google AI Releases Gemini CLI: An Open-Source AI Agent for Your Terminal
Google has unveiled Gemini CLI, an open-source command-line AI agent that integrates the Gemini 2.5 Pro model directly into the terminal. Designed for developers and technical power users, Gemini CLI allows users to interact with Gemini using natural language directly from the command line—supporting workflows such as code explanation, debugging, documentation generation, file manipulation, and…
LlamaFirewall: Open-source framework to detect and mitigate AI centric security risks – Help Net Security
LlamaFirewall is a system-level security framework for LLM-powered applications, built with a modular design to support layered, adaptive defense. It is designed to mitigate a wide spectrum of AI agent security risks including jailbreaking and indirect prompt injection, goal hijacking, and insecure code outputs. Why Meta created LlamaFirewall LLMs are moving far beyond simple chatbot…
Microsoft AI Introduces Magentic-UI: An Open-Source Agent Prototype that Works with People to Complete Complex Tasks that Require Multi-Step Planning and Browser Use
Modern web usage spans many digital interactions, from filling out forms and managing accounts to executing data queries and navigating complex dashboards. Despite the web being deeply intertwined with productivity and work processes, many of these actions still demand repetitive human input. This scenario is especially true for environments that require detailed instructions or decisions…
Ming-Lite-Uni: An Open-Source AI Framework Designed to Unify Text and Vision through an Autoregressive Multimodal Structure
Multimodal AI rapidly evolves to create systems that can understand, generate, and respond using multiple data types within a single conversation or task, such as text, images, and even video or audio. These systems are expected to function across diverse interaction formats, enabling more seamless human-AI communication. With users increasingly engaging AI for tasks like…
A Coding Guide to Asynchronous Web Data Extraction Using Crawl4AI: An Open-Source Web Crawling and Scraping Toolkit Designed for LLM Workflows
In this tutorial, we demonstrate how to harness Crawl4AI, a modern, Python‑based web crawling toolkit, to extract structured data from web pages directly within Google Colab. Leveraging the power of asyncio for asynchronous I/O, httpx for HTTP requests, and Crawl4AI’s built‑in AsyncHTTPCrawlerStrategy, we bypass the overhead of headless browsers while still parsing complex HTML via…
How to run FreeDOS, an open-source version of DOS, on any PC
I remember using MS-DOS 6.22 on my first PC, a 486 DX 33 with a “massive” 4MB of RAM. It was quite the culture shock, upgrading from a Commodore Amiga 500, and its Workbench graphical operating system, to the text based MS-DOS. I quickly learnt how MS-DOS worked, and because I wanted sound when playing…
2025’s Top OSINT Tools: A Fresh Take on Open-Source Intel
Check out the top OSINT tools of 2025, an updated list featuring the best free and paid open-source intelligence tools for cybersecurity and investigations. At HackRead.com, we have a long-standing tradition of publishing comprehensive lists of the best OSINT tools to help cybersecurity professionals and enthusiasts stay ahead in the game. Every year, we research…
Open-Source AI Strikes Back With Meta’s Llama 4
In the past few years, the AI world has shifted from a culture of open collaboration to one dominated by closely guarded proprietary systems. OpenAI – a company literally founded with “open” in its name – pivoted to keeping its most powerful models secret after 2019. Competitors like Anthropic and Google similarly built cutting-edge AI…
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