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Microsoft angers the.NET open source community with a controversial decision

The Verge

Microsoft has spent the past 10 years embracing open-source software and, at several points, even admitting it loves Linux and the open source community. The Linux Foundation even praised Microsoft for working with the open source community after the company joined the foundation nearly five years ago.

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Observability in 2025: Open Source Use Rising as Complexity Challenges Grow

ITPro Today

Grafana Labs' Observability Survey finds 75% of organizations are using open source observability tools while battling complexity challenges.

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OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system

TechCrunch

In a step toward solving it, OpenAI today open-sourced Whisper, an automatic speech recognition system that the company claims enables “robust” transcription in multiple languages as well as translation from those languages into English. Speech recognition remains a challenging problem in AI and machine learning.

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Elon Musk makes $97 billion bid for OpenAI, gets rejected

Mashable Tech

However, Musk later cut ties with the organization. At its founding, OpenAI was initially meant to operate as a not-for-profit group with an open-source ethos. Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman both originally co-founded OpenAI. Since then, the two have butted heads over the direction OpenAI has gone in.

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Massive Foundation Model for Biomolecular Sciences Now Available via NVIDIA BioNeMo

NVIDIA AI Blog

Unveiled today as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, it was built on the NVIDIA DGX Cloud platform in a collaboration led by nonprofit biomedical research organization Arc Institute and Stanford University.

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Salesforce and Amazon Web Services Partner to Help Nonprofits Accelerate Impact

NonProfit PRO

Data Lake for Nonprofit Cloud, Powered by AWS, is a new open-source solution designed to make it even easier for organizations to leverage their Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud data. As nonprofits emerge from pandemic-related challenges, data has become critical in preparing for what's next.

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Switzerland is forcing government bodies to use open-source software

TechSpot

Switzerland has started requiring all its public organizations to use open-source software. The new measure, known as EMBAG or the Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Performance of Government Tasks, was approved in 2023 after years of debate. As highlighted by ZDNet, EMBAG is now forcing. Read Entire Article