vLLM Team Launches Startup Inferact, Raises $150M to Build AI Inference Engines

pandaily - The founding of Inferact and its massive $150 million seed round signal that AI inference infrastructure is quickly becoming a top priority for both builders and investors.

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Curl shutters bug bounty program to remove incentive for submitting AI slop

Simon Sharwood / theregister - Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly ones’ The maintainer of popular open-source data transfer tool cURL has ended the project’s bug bounty program after maintainers struggled to assess a flood of AI-generated contrib…

Back to Top / Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 1:21 am / permalink 18223 / 3 stories in 6 wks

Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors

tomshardware - Wikipedia is 25. Founded on this day in 2001, this community contributor driven site has convincingly usurped what were once the default general reference works of choice, like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta.

Back to Top / Saturday, January 17, 2026, 8:20 am / permalink 18123 / 4 stories in 6 wks

Cloudflare Wants to Build Napster for AI, Except This Time Everyone Gets Paid

Marcus Schuler / implicator - Cloudflare acquired Human Native, a startup that licenses web content to AI developers. A day later, they bought web framework Astro. The deals look unrelated until you see the pipeline: content creation to AI licensing, with Cloudflare taking a cut at ev…

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ClickHouse Raises $400 Million to Expand AI-Focused Data Infrastructure Platform

PYMNTS / pymnts - ClickHouse, a provider of data infrastructure for artificial intelligence systems, raised $400 million in a Series D funding round. The company will use the new capital to expand its offerings in real-time data analytics, data warehousing, observability, …

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Your Ray-Ban Meta alternative is open-source, and that changes everything

digitaltrends - Mentra Live is a Ray-Ban Meta alternative with a rare perk, an open-source OS and a MiniApp Store. It’s limited-run, app-driven camera glasses, but real-world polish and privacy details still need proof.The post Your Ray-Ban Meta alternative is open-sourc…

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Wikimedia Foundation secures AI data deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and more

Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Coinciding with its 25th anniversary celebrations, the Wikimedia Foundation has publicly unveiled a significant expansion of its commercial partnerships, welcoming major technology firms including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity as cus…

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Pinned: TranslateGemma is our new collection of open translation models for edge devices built on our amazing Gemma 3 open model. They outperform models twice their size at translation tasks across 55 languages. Excited to see what people build with it!

@demishassabis / x - TranslateGemma is our new collection of open translation models for edge devices built on our amazing Gemma 3 open model. They outperform models twice their size at translation tasks across 55 languages. Excited to see what people build with it!Google Dee…

Back to Top / Thursday, January 15, 2026, 9:20 pm / permalink 17982 / 3 stories in 7 wks

China’s Zhipu Unveils New AI Model Trained on Huawei’s Chips

Luz Ding / bloomberg - Chinese AI startup Knowledge Atlas Technology JSC Ltd. released a new multimodal model that it says is the country’s first to be fully trained using domestic chips, in a sign of progress toward meeting Beijing’s goal of reducing reliance on American techn…

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NetBird announces $10M Series A to expand open source VPN alternative

Tamara Djurickovic / tech - NetBird,an open-source network security platform built on product-led adoption, hasclosed a $10 million Series A round led by Pace Capital, with participationfrom Nauta Capital, InReach Ventures, and ...

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Elon Musk Says X to Make Its Algorithm Open Source in Seven Days

Vincent Lee / bloomberg - Social media platform X will open its new algorithm to the public in seven days, Elon Musk said on Saturday, including the code used to decide what posts and advertisements are recommended to users.

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I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

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China's Open-Source AI Models Might Be Outpacing American Companies In Cost

slashgear - While companies like Google and OpenAI grab all the headlines, open-source Chinese AI models are getting faster, cheaper, and just as effective.

Back to Top / Saturday, January 10, 2026, 7:20 am / permalink 17726 / 9 stories in 7 wks

Bose made the consumer friendly move to open source its SoundTouch speakers

Lawrence Bonk / engadget - Bose recently announced the pending end of cloud support for its SoundTouch line of home speakers. This will, in effect, turn the smart speakers into dumb speakers as they will no longer have access to many features and any related software updates. Well,…

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Cologne-based United Manufacturing Hub Secures €5M To Unlock Industrial Data For Modern Factories

Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Cologne-based United Manufacturing Hub (UMH), an open-source industrial data management platform for modern factories, has raised €5 million to accelerate its goal of building a foundational data layer for global manufacturing. The funding round was led b…

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Keychron launches wireless Q Ultra keyboard series with up to 660 hours of battery life with 8K polling — thanks to ZMK firmware

tomshardware - Keychron launches new Q Ultra keyboard series with up to 660 hours of battery life with an 8K wireless polling rate, thanks to open source ZMK firmware. Also announces high-end luxury keyboards made of rock.

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NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

EditorDavid / slashdot - NVIDIA has been "gradually dropping support for older videocards," notes Hackaday, "with the Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs most recently getting axed." "What's more surprising is the terrible way that this is being handled by certain Linux distributions, with Ar…

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Xiaomi Rolls Out MiMo-V2-Flash to Rival DeepSeek, Moonshot, and OpenAI

Maxwell Mutuma / parameter - TLDR Xiaomi unveils MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-source AI model designed to compete with DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and OpenAI. The model is a step toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), focusing on reasoning, coding, and problem-solving tasks. MiMo-V2-Flas…

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Nvidia acquires Slurm developer SchedMD to enhance its software capabilities

Maria Deutscher / siliconangle - Nvidia Corp. has acquired SchedMD LLC, a low-profile company that maintains one of the most important open-source tools in the machine learning ecosystem. The chipmaker announced the deal today. The financial terms were not disclosed. SchedMD was founded …

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