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Some startups are going ‘fair source’ to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing

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With the perennial tensions between proprietary and open source software (OSS) unlikely to end anytime soon, a $3 billion startup is throwing its weight behind a new licensing paradigm — one that’s designed to bridge the open and proprietary worlds, replete with new definition, terminology, and governance model. Developer software company Sentry recently introduced a […]

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Virtuous, a fundraising CRM for nonprofits, raises $100M from Susquehanna Growth Equity

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I recently adopted a kitten from a local animal shelter. The modern, well-staffed three-story facility relies almost entirely on donations to operate. It’s just one of the 1.8 million nonprofits in the U.S. that need to continually solicit contributions from donors to maintain its services. But Virtuous founder and CEO Gabe Cooper says that many

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LinkedIn scraped user data for training before updating its terms of service

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LinkedIn may have trained AI models on user data without updating its terms. LinkedIn users in the US — but not the EU, EEA, or Switzerland, likely due to those regions’ data privacy rules — have an opt-out toggle in their settings screen disclosing that LinkedIn scrapes personal data to train “content creation AI models.”

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IBM acquires Kubernetes cost optimization startup Kubecost

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IBM on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Kubecost, a FinOps startup that helps teams at companies like Allianz, Audi, Rakuten, and GitLab monitor and optimize their Kubernetes clusters with a focus on efficiency and, ultimately, cost. Tuesday’s announcement follows IBM’s $4.3 billion acquisition of Apptio in 2023, another company in the FinOps space. In

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Arzeda is using AI to design proteins for artificial sweeteners and more

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AI is increasingly being applied to protein design, the process of creating new proteins with specific, target characteristics. Protein design’s applications are myriad, but it’s a promising way of discovering drug-based treatments to combat diseases and creating new homecare, agriculture, food-based and materials products. One among the many vendors developing AI tech to design proteins,

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Microsoft Copilot: Everything you need to know about Microsoft’s AI

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Copilot is Microsoft’s take on productivity-boosting generative AI, and it continues to grow and expand with Microsoft’s AI ambitions. Today, there are around a dozen Copilot-branded products powering various capabilities in Microsoft software and services, like summarizations in Microsoft Outlook and transcriptions in Microsoft Teams. That’s in addition to Microsoft-owned GitHub’s Copilot tool for generating

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IBM makes developing for quantum computers easier with the Qiskit Functions Catalog

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IBM today launched the Qiskit Functions Catalog, a new set of services that aims to make programming quantum computers easier by abstracting away many of the complexities of working with these machines. “I do think it’s the next big transition ince we put the quantum computer on the cloud,” Jay Gambetta, IBM’s VP in charge

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