Low-Cost Tech Moves That Deliver Big Returns For Small Businesses

What separates high performers is not access to enterprise-grade platforms, but the ability to apply focused tech investments ...

Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam

Europeans are moving away from US-based products and services. This is due to a loss of trust in American tech companies and the government. Open-source-based companies are benefiting the most.
TechCrunch

The startup behind open source tool Polars raises $21M from Accel

Polars, the Amsterdam-based company behind the popular open source project of the same name, has raised €18 million (about $21 million) in a Series A round led by Accel, with participation from Bain ...
TechNode

Huawei Zurich Lab’s New Open-Source Tech Lets LLMs Run on Consumer GPUs

Huawei’s Zurich Computing Systems Laboratory has released SINQ (Sinkhorn Normalization Quantization), an open-source quantization method that reduces the memory requirements of large language models ...
Wired

‘Sovereign AI’ Has Become a New Front in the US-China Tech War

OpenAI has announced a number of projects this year with foreign governments to help build out what it has called their “sovereign AI” systems. The company says the deals, some of which are being ...
PC Gamer

Nvidia's gen-AI facial animation tech is going open source, potentially making it much easier for game devs to turn real-time speech into convincing characters

Nvidia has announced that its Audio2Face animation technology is going open source. On paper, that should make it much easier for a wide range of game developers to create AI characters with ...
ZDNet

German state replaces Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email

Schleswig-Holstein has moved from Microsoft Exchange and Outlook to Open-Xchange and Thunderbird for e-mail. Other EU entities have opted for open-source alternatives. This switch isn't just a ...