Stefano Maffulli
stefano@www.maffulli.net
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I’ve spent my career at the intersection of Open Source principles and sustainable growth. The tension between the two has hit an all-time high: Open Source software is everywhere, and people who build it face ever-growing challenges. On the demand side of the market, users are tired of their data, their business logic, and their operations being locked in proprietary silos. Businesses of all sizes want stability and security, but above all, they’re asking for sovereignty. In the background is a...
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Worth reading Notes from inside China’s AI labs – by Nathan Lambert https://www.interconnects.ai/p/notes-from-inside-chinas-ai-labs #AI #China
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The call for proposals is open until May 15. The track about Public AI looks interesting. Public AI Strategies for building publicly accessible, accountable, and trustworthy large language models (LLMs) and machine learning systems—AI tools that are collectively governed and work for the common good. Source: DWeb Camp
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The evolution of GitLab reminded me of Zuul, built to handle multiple merge requests in parallel “at a rate no human team ever did”. Machine-scale infrastructure. Agents open merge requests in parallel, trigger pipelines around the clock, and push commits at a rate no human team ever did. Source: GitLab Act 2
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Something I’ve been saying for a few years already. I’m glad to see Creative Commons shifting gears. I’ll update the AI Preference Landscape article in the next few days. The exploration of these kinds of tools requires us to look beyond copyright alone Source: From Signals to Infrastructure: Strengthening the Commons for the AI Era – Creative Commons
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The Open Source AI Definition featured at the G7The work I led at the Open Source Initiative is clearly paying off. The G7 Digital Ministers in Paris published the G7 Vision on AI openness opportunities and shared language using the language of the Open Source AI Definition to describe Open Source AI. The document calls for greater clarity in the use of terminology describing AI openness. It’s a short and effective document.
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GNOME showed another middle finger to its most loyal and long-time users: the middle-click paste is now disabled by default?!?! One of the most powerful features of Unix and X Windows, a thing I miss on every other operating system, is disabled because “other OSs don’t have it”? The desktop that aims to please new users isn’t gaining new users, but suffers more and more forks, keeps on hitting new lows at every release. Is it masochism? https://discourse....