The Linux Foundation's Mike Dolan has submitted the OpenMDW (Open Model, Data, and Weights) license to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval, aiming to clarify licensing for the distribution o…
Most AI models marketed as 'open' are open-weight rather than open-source, and the deciding factor is the licence, according to the Open Source Initiative's OSAID 1.0 standard. Open-weight models like…
Open Source Initiative (OSI) Executive Director Duane O'Brien warned that Washington's potential trade block-lists and executive orders targeting Open Weights and Open Source AI would harm startups an…
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) reported that the European Union has passed two milestones in implementing its Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and AI Act, with the European Commission publishing guidance …
A Vetted Consumer analysis of 27 recent AI models found that 13 ship under Apache 2.0 and 7 under MIT, while the remaining 7 use five custom licenses with varying restrictions, including revenue thres…
A developer built Awesome Open GEO, a curated list of 62 open-source tools for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), requiring all entries to be free to run and OSI-licensed. The list excludes popular…
A coalition of technology companies published a letter defending open-weight AI models, urging the US government to avoid premature restrictions on downloadable models, four days after an Axios report…
The open-weight AI ecosystem is following the same trajectory as Kubernetes did in the container wars, according to Tobi Knaup, co-founder of Mesosphere. He argues that open-weight models like Llama, …
The White House is weighing restrictions on American access to open weight AI models, particularly those from Chinese labs, including trade block-lists, security warnings, and a possible executive ord…
Developer launches Trace Commons, a community effort to collect coding-agent sessions from tools like Claude Code and Codex under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license, aiming to create an open d…
The open source movement faces a growing backlash as projects erect barriers against AI-assisted contributions, threatening the founding vision of universal access to software modification. Critics ar…
The Model Openness Tool (MOT), presented by Arnaud Le Hors at Open Source Summit North America 2026, aims to help users assess the true openness of large language models (LLMs) that are often misleadi…