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The latest developments from the open source community, pulled from other sources — the Open Source Initiative, the GitHub Blog, and Hacker News. Each story is written by, and belongs to, its original source; click through to read it there. The Last Page does not author or edit this content.

Hacker News (Open Source)

Show HN: SolidCraft – Open-Source Parametric CAD in Rust (With MCP Support)

Article URL: https://github.com/bherbruck/solidcraft Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50064840 Points: 37 # Comments: 4
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Open Source Initiative

Open Enables a Lot: The OSI at UNGA81

At UNGA81, OSI joined conversations on Open Source AI, digital sovereignty, and digital public infrastructure. Open by itself does very little but enables a lot.
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Open Source Initiative

Open Weights Are Good. Open Source Is Better.

With openness in AI making headlines, we must educate policymakers, producers, and users of these technologies about what open-weight and Open Source AI mean for the four software freedoms: the freedom to use, study, mod...
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Open Source Initiative

We Must Open the Frontier: OSI, OFAI Support Calls for the U.S. to Develop More Open Models

The OSI joins the Open Forum for AI (OFAI) in supporting calls for the U.S. to develop more open models.
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Open Source Initiative

OSI brings the State of the Source to All Things Open 2026

The OSI is coming to All Things Open with a track designed to connect developers with the big policy conversations shaping our ecosystem.
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Hacker News (Open Source)

UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)

Article URL: https://www.middleeastainews.com/p/uae-ai-model-tops-50-million-monthly Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49606339 Points: 3 # Comments: 0
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Hacker News (Open Source)

Corporate America Is Getting Hooked on Open-Source A.I

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/technology/open-source-ai-anthropic-openai.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49566137 Points: 78 # Comments: 45
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Open Source Initiative

OSI Governance Survey

We invite the Open Source community to participate in the OSI Governance Survey and help inform the future of OSI’s governance.
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Open Source Initiative

Why Openness Matters More Than Ever

Members Newsletter – August 2026: Every model making headlines today, open or closed, sits on top of Open Source code, runs on Open Source infrastructure, and is based on openly shared research. That's not sentiment, it'...
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Open Source Initiative

The AI Era Arcs Toward Openness

A surge of openness in AI has defined 2026. Amid calls for both caution and support, prevailing trends point to a future in which models are built and released openly. Recent research offers new insight into the adoption...
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Open Source Initiative

Preliminary agenda announced for the Open Technology Research Symposium 2026

Open Technology Research Symposium 2026 releases preliminary agenda. The event takes place on 26 and 27 October 2026 at the University of Barcelona during Barcelona Open Tech Week
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Open Source Initiative

Openness Made All of This Possible

Every AI system in the headlines today, whether proprietary or Open Source, exists because researchers shared their work openly. That openly shared research produced Open Source software: the frameworks used to train the...
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