Google is planning a major change to the way it develops new versions of the Android operating system. Since the beginning, large swaths of the software have been developed in public-facing channels, but that will no longer be the case. This does not mean Android is shedding its open source roots, but the process won’t … Read more
Photo by Luke Southern from Unsplash Background This blog post follows a previous post that discussed what constitutes “open source” AI, in particular in light of the EU AI Act. This post continues the discussion, in particular in light of the revision of the Open Source AI Definition (“OSAID”) released at the end of 2024, … Read more
The use of high-risk and outdated open source software (OSS) components is a widespread problem, according to a Black Duck report that revealed 86% of analyzed codebases contained vulnerable open source components.The 2025 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis (OSSRA) Report, published Tuesday, is based on analyses by Black Duck Audit of 965 commercial codebases … Read more
Fitch Ratings, a provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis, expects to see a further expansion of alternative reinsurance capacity in 2025, supported by cyber catastrophe bond issuances, which will add to the reinsurance sector’s capital base and help absorb earnings volatility.Looking back at 2024, three cyber cat bonds were introduced to the insurance-linked … Read more
Major models including Google’s Gemma, Meta’s Llama, and even older OpenAI releases like GPT2 have been released under this open weights structure. Those models also often release open source code covering the inference-time instructions run when responding to a query. It’s currently unclear whether DeepSeek’s planned open source release will also include the code the … Read more