Category Open Source

Patreon begins blocking AI training bots after years of warning them off

Patreon is blocking AI scraping with Cloudflare tools, replacing robots.txt requests with direct enforcement to protect creators' work.

General Compute lands a $400 million loan from Upper90, signaling that inference chips are becoming a major new AI financing asset.

Kimi 3 could match Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 as Moonshot readies its largest open-weight model and new funding push.

Thinking Machines launches an open-weight model, Inkling, to push enterprise AI customization over one-size-fits-all chatbots.

A reported Suno hack suggests the AI music generator scraped YouTube and other sources, deepening copyright and privacy concerns.

Open models are taking share from frontier labs as enterprises seek cheaper, customizable AI and less vendor lock-in.

Reflection AI signs a $1B compute deal with Nebius, underscoring the growing importance of compute deal spending in the open-model AI race.

Nous Research is reportedly raising at least $75M at a $1.5B valuation as demand for AI agents and Hermes heats up.

Satya Nadella warns AI models may make companies pay twice — in cash and proprietary data — and urges more control, routing and open-source use.

Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue says open source AI is booming as companies seek lower costs, more control and less vendor lock-in.