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Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems

TechCrunch

But so far, only a handful of such AI systems have been made freely available to the public and open sourced — reflecting the commercial incentives of the companies building them. Hugging Face and ServiceNow launch BigCode, a project to open source code-generating AI systems by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch.

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Appsmith raises $8M to take on the internal corporate app market with open source code

TechCrunch

Appsmith , which provides open source software that helps companies quickly build internal applications, announced an $8 million Series A round of funding this morning. Instead, Appsmith targets traditional developers with its service, which provides user-interface components that can be connected to business data sources.

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Open source the secret sauce in secure, affordable voting tech

The Parallax

And over the long term, consider switching to the cheaper—and more advanced and secure—voting technology that cybersecurity expert Ben Adida is dedicating his next career move to developing. VotingWorks, Adida told the Context Conversations audience, will “build open-source voting machines on commodity hardware. Adida said.

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AI2 open sources text-generating AI models — and the data used to train them

Ooda Loop

The Allen Institute for AI (AI2), the nonprofit AI research institute founded by late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is releasing several GenAI language models it claims are more “open” than others — and, importantly, licensed in such a way that developers can use them unfettered for training, experimentation and even […]

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IBM awards its second $50,000 Open Source Community Grant to internship and mentorship program Outreachy

DevOps.com

By Todd Moore and Guillermo Miranda Last October, the open source community at IBM awarded a first-of-its-kind quarterly grant to promote nonprofits that are dedicated to education, inclusiveness, and skill-building for women, underrepresented minorities, and underserved communities in the open source world.

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14 organizations that support LGBTQ+ tech workers

CIO

Maven Youth Maven Youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering LGBTQ+ youth to “network, organize, and educate for social change through technology and the tech sector.” The nonprofit was born after IBM sponsored a focus group in 2005 at the Human Rights Campaign headquarters in Washington, D.C.,

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Google expands program to help train the formerly incarcerated

TechCrunch

Last April, Google launched Grow with Google Career Readiness for Reentry, a program created in partnership with nonprofits to offer job readiness and digital skills training for formerly incarcerated individuals. “[W]e believe that companies, nonprofits and government working together can be a powerful force for good.

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