A new wave of open-source AI assistants that run entirely on local hardware, with no subscription fees or data leaving the machine, includes MiniCPM Desk Pet, OpenHuman, and Jan AI, which has six mill…
A nonprofit called Current AI, backed by France, DeepMind, Salesforce, and the Ford and MacArthur foundations with over $400 million in commitments, launched at France's AI Action Summit in early 2025…
Nearly half of open-source AI projects never reach production, according to Mozilla's The State of Open Source AI 2026 report, which identifies deployment, governance and operational tooling as persis…
Mozilla's inaugural State of Open Source AI report finds that 79% of developers use open models but only 51% have deployed one to production, revealing a 28-point deployment gap. The report, based on …
Apple Inc. has sent document retention letters to dozens of OpenAI employees as part of a widening trade secrets lawsuit that claims over 400 former Apple employees now work at OpenAI, threatening the…
Mozilla released Tabstack, a managed web API that extracts structured data, answers questions with cited sources, and automates browser tasks in a single API call without requiring users to manage LLM…
A developer explains that a public security scanner for vibe-coded applications can check deployed surfaces for misconfigurations, exposed secrets, and missing headers, but cannot assess authenticated…
Independent researchers Dr. Harry Brignull and Cennydd Bowles published Over The Edge 2.0, finding that Microsoft still uses harmful design patterns in Windows, Edge, and Bing to coerce users into usi…
Mozilla's inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' report, based on a global survey of over 950 developers, finds that the performance gap between open models and top proprietary systems like ChatGPT and C…
Mozilla released its first 'state of open-source AI' report on Tuesday, arguing that open-source AI has nearly caught up to closed models and calling for more investment in the ecosystem beyond the mo…
A developer compared Llamafile and vLLM for serving local LLMs on an RTX 4090, finding Llamafile faster for single-user interactive use and simpler to set up, while vLLM excels under concurrent load a…
Mozilla's record-breaking month of security fixes in Firefox was driven not solely by AI but by a sophisticated harness and pipeline engineered by Brian Grinstead's team, highlighting the critical rol…
AI agent loops are a form of smart automation that use self-activating prompts to achieve goals, but poorly defined goals can lead to infinite loops and high costs. Mozilla used AI agents with custom …
A documentary short titled 'Code for the People,' directed by Bao Nguyen, explores the past, present, and contested future of the open web, highlighting the threat of closed AI and walled gardens. The…
The Ethereum Foundation is deploying swarms of AI agents to red-team its network infrastructure, uncovering vulnerabilities including a remotely triggered panic in libp2p's gossipsub. The AI agents, o…
A power outage struck the RAISE Summit during a keynote by Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch and Mozilla president Mark Surman, who were arguing for open-source AI reliability. The pair continued their firesi…
Tessa Kriesel, a developer tools marketer, increased Tabstack signups by 71% in her first 90 days by treating go-to-market as an engineering problem, building a real product on the API before starting…
Security researchers at NebuSec have achieved the first full-chain remote code execution from a browser to the kernel on Android 17, exploiting Firefox 151 to gain root access. The exploit, dubbed Cyb…
GitHub, Mozilla, Hugging Face, and other LLM-gen-AI companies oppose updates to the California Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act (SB 1000), arguing that provisions requiring revocation of licen…
A FIRST blog forecast reveals CVE volumes are tracking 46% above original projections, driven by AI-assisted discovery and structural reporting changes, with an estimated 66,000 vulnerabilities expect…