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Euro open source specialist proposes LLM gateway to ease token bills

Top Open Source LLM Gateways

Reddit’s r/opensource bans AI-made and AI-focused projects, also bans non-English speakers

Denmark’s bid to ditch Microsoft Office for open-source alternative Collabora collapses in under six months

Top officials from Mecca pact countries to meet Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday, two sources say - Reuters

Top officials from Mecca pact countries to meet Iranian officials in Tehran on Monday, two sources say Reuters…

Sources detail how Ramp investors Joe Lonsdale and Keith Rabois pushed US lawmakers to probe rival Airwallex's China ties after Airwallex scrapped a Ramp deal (Michael Roddan/The Information)

Moderators of r/opensource ban submissions of projects using, made by, or intended for AI, exclude non-English speakers over AI translation concerns, and more (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)

I found a free open-source backup app that makes traditional backups feel outdated

Free AI education: certifications, hands-on technical courses, and resources

‘Tokens Are Cheap’: Open Source Subreddit Bans AI

Show HN: Junior – an open-source AI junior engineer that runs on your Mac

Subreddit R/opensource banned all AI so we made a subreddit for you to post in

Sources: Apple tweaked macOS for its OLED touch MacBook Pro, due Wednesday, with a dynamic interface that adapts to whether touch or the trackpad was last used (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

R/open source bans all solo projects and projects using LLMs

Show HN: Open-Source Cybersecurity Platform Uses AI Agents to Protect Businesses

r/opensource just banned AI, non-English speakers and more

Seal is the best app to download videos from YouTube and Instagram; it's open source

Google Messages sucks at SMS, but this open source app has the one feature I need

New Open-Source Cybersecurity Platform Uses AI Agents to Hunt Threats

Trump set to announce Audi plan to build US factory in Georgia, source says - Reuters

Trump set to announce Audi plan to build US factory in Georgia, source says Reuters…

Argus – a free, open-source agentic security operations platform – MIT

I replaced YouTube Music with Metrolist to get a cleaner open source listening interface

Source: Replit recently moved most AI spend from Anthropic to OpenAI, which gave 30%+ off in a deal worth $100M+/year, after Anthropic discontinued its discount (The Information)

Show HN: Argus- open source security platform to protect against agentic attacks

Show HN: Loböle, open-source parametric CAD that AI agents can drive

Sam Altman predicts AI race could end with ‘terrible’ scenario where one company holds all power, cuts off resources - MoneyWise.com

I dumped 8 popular Android apps for these better open-source alternatives

CowAgent – Open-Source Super AI Assistant

No Source Code? No Problem

Kimi K3.1 Pro puts open-source AI a month behind the best

Sources: Instacart, currently valued at $12B, is in talks to sell itself and held preliminary conversations with DoorDash and Uber (The Information)

Open Source Mobile-Use MCP and AI Agent

'Maybe you win the battle but lose the war because you put all your resources into one battle' — Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 4 creative director says King Art Games 'wanted battles to take a while' so borrowed from the original strategy game's systems

Sources: Kalshi is targeting a December rollout for exchange-traded futures contracts tracking US inflation, rivaling exchanges like CME and ICE (Greg Ritchie/Bloomberg)

Source: Shein has agreed to pay $100M, equivalent to 44% of its Q2 profit, to settle a US FTC investigation over delivery delays and other customer complaints (Reuters)

Sources: Anthropic and London-based PE firm Hg agree to launch a consultancy by the end of 2026 to embed AI consultants and engineers into European businesses (Financial Times)

Anthropic says it partnered with Theorem to use Claude to formally prove security properties at the assembly level across 100+ real-world open-source libraries (Anthropic)

Ordered list of open-source software with the No-AI policy

Chinese state media: DeepSeek and MiniMax completed registration and won approval to open-source and deploy AI models overseas under proposed export controls (Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI has cut its valuation target to $1.25T, down from the $1.4T valuation it pitched earlier this month, after facing resistance from some investors (Financial Times)

Sources: SpaceX is in talks with at least one major cellular infrastructure firm to secure a minimum of 80K US cell sites, as it eyes a wireless carrier launch (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)

Sources: OpenAI nears an up to $30B round led by investors from the UAE and Coatue at a $1.25T pre-money valuation, as an "opportunistic" bridge ahead of an IPO (Kate Rooney/CNBC)

An Open Source Linear Capacitive Encoder

I ditched 4 expensive desktop apps for free open-source alternatives, and I wish I'd done it sooner

Modular's MAX Source Code Now Fully Opened, Under New MAX License

Sources: SoftBank's SB Energy is considering going public as soon as December or waiting until 2027, as it closely watches Anthropic's IPO, expected in November (The Information)

Sources: Datadog offered to buy Israeli cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security for ~$4B; Upwind is finalizing a $300M funding round at a ~$3.8B valuation (The Information)

Claude flags nearly 500 worrying open source security issues — C, Java, and Python code all at risk as one flaw wasn't spotted for 21 years

Sources: Elon Musk has invested roughly $1B in Skydance; in 2022, David Ellison's father, Larry Ellison, invested $1B in Musk's deal to take X private (Rohan Goswami/Semafor)

Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of user instructions (Madison Mills/Axios)

Madison Mills / Axios : Sources: US banks are restricting third-party AI agents from accessing customer accounts, after some agents appeared to act independently of user instructio…

Show HN: Lalabase, self-hosted project management with an AI that cites sources

Show HN: FiscaLLM:open-source per-user AI cost for subscription apps

Sources: the Pentagon quietly establishes the Technology Support Office (TSO), an agency to execute covert sabotage, cyberattacks, and supply chain disruptions (Politico)

Sources: Visa is in late-stage talks to buy stablecoin custody and infrastructure provider Fireblocks for ~$2.5B, its first acquisition in the stablecoin sector (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Google Open-Sources Harness²: Self-Improving AI Agents Without Retraining

Source: a16z plans to drop "crypto" from its flagship blockchain fund, rebranding it to "a16z frontier" and broadening its investment strategy beyond crypto (Leo Schwartz/The Information)

Hugging Face releases Carbon-X, an open-source, 14B-parameter multimodal AI model to let users query DNA sequences via natural language, trained on 300B tokens (Emily Mullin/Wired)

Source: Musk's public endorsement of a potential SpaceX-Tesla merger rattled some insiders, who worry his comments could invite shareholder scrutiny and delays (Milana Vinn/Reuters)

Sources: Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner proposed joining a bid for TikTok's European business over lunch with Charles Kushner, the US ambassador to France (Financial Times)

Sources: DeepSeek raised ~$15B in its latest fundraising round, one of China's largest ever, with CATL and Tencent among the biggest contributors (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)