For Alibaba and several Chinese AI startups, open-source AI presents an opportunity for faster commercialization and global recognition. This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology ...

When you hear the term "open source," it's talking about any publicly accessible design that people are free to change and share as they please. It started with software development, with code that ...

Many who bemoan the lack of women in the open source community (as well as in technology fields overall) do little more than that: bemoan it. Others try to lead by example.Summit on Women and IT next ...

As the generative AI boom continues, startups building business models around the tech are beginning to delineate along two clear lines. Some, convinced that a proprietary and closed source approach ...

One of the hottest debates in generative artificial intelligence (AI) is open source versus closed source: which will prove more valuable? One way to test these programs against each other is to see ...

The world has come to rely upon the free work of millions of skilled software developers—the maintainers of free open-source software (FOSS) projects. But the world hasn’t given them a tip. While it’s ...

As tech giants declare their AI releases open — and even put the word in their names — the once insider term “open source” has burst into the modern zeitgeist. During this precarious time in which one ...

Dina Biagio of Spoor & Fisher explores the impact of open-source software on technology development and highlights the tension between collaborative innovation and traditional intellectual property ...

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is nearly upon us. This wide-reaching piece of legislation will introduce new requirements, checks and balances on developers, retailers and device manufacturers. But ...

Software freedom. User freedom. Why do we have to choose? Licensing hasn’t kept pace with the reality of software in the cloud and AI. Folks, we have an open source problem. And, no, it’s not the ...