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Chainguard is expanding beyond open-source security to protect open-core software, AI agent skills, and GitHub Actions.

Pete Hottelet, founder of Omni Consumer Products has published an interactive 3D replica of the Voight-Kampff machine from Blade Runner 2049 at voight-kampff.com. The project was built entirely ...

An exclusive conversation with OpenAI’s chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, about his firm's new grand challenge and the future of AI.

NEO Home Loans powered by Better announced that its advisor network is now leveraging Better’s AI-powered underwriting infrastructure, including the recently launched Tinman AI application built ...

The consensus among early adopters is that Anthropic has successfully internalized the most desirable features of the open-source movement—multi-channel support and long-term memory ...

Sky News UK tech correspondent Rowland Manthorpe on what the last wave of automation can teach us about the next. A Tyee Q&A.

Why do individual web pages now require as much memory to run as an entire operating system did 30 years ago? Ad tech, baby.

OpenAI Group PBC today announced plans to acquire Astral Software Inc., a startup with a set of widely used Python development tools.  The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Astral’s development ...

Phenom, the leader in applied AI that helps organizations hire faster, develop better and retain longer, has been recognized ...

OX Security exposes a GitHub phishing campaign targeting OpenClaw developers with fake $CLAW airdrops and a cloned site built ...

The phishing campaign lures OpenClaw developers with fake $5,000 token airdrops, then drains wallets through a cloned site ...