Open-Source AI
Open models — Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen and others — are catching up to closed labs and let you run AI on your own hardware, vendor-free. That shifts the balance of power, the safety debate and the economics of the field. Here is everything on open-source AI: open-weight releases, licenses, local deployment and the race against closed models.
A prompt template for Qwen helps produce precise answers without filler
Using the free Qwen model as an example, the author explained how to set the role, context, and response format so the model drifts less into abstractions and…
ServiceNow introduced EVA — a new framework for evaluating voice AI agents
ServiceNow released EVA — a system that evaluates voice AI agents not only by task success, but also by dialogue quality, from response brevity to turn timing.
Cisco introduced DefenseClaw — an orchestration and blocking layer for securing AI agents
Cisco released DefenseClaw, an open control layer for AI agents that scans skills and code, monitors actions at runtime, and instantly blocks dangerous operations.
Cursor hid Composer 2's base model, but the API exposed Kimi K2.5 and sparked a transparency dispute
OpenClaw has moved beyond the hype: what businesses and DevOps teams can already put to work
Project Nomad turns a Debian PC into an offline knowledge hub with local AI, maps, and Wikipedia
OpenIDE adds ACP: how the JetBrains and Zed protocol changes how AI agents work in IDEs
DeepSeek and Qwen tried to get through "Everlasting Summer," but got stuck in the labyrinth
An experiment with DeepSeek, Qwen, Gemma and gpt-oss showed that local LLMs can already play visual novels via Ren’Py and Ollama, but they still often get confused…
OpenAI Whisper, React, and FastAPI: how to build an AI meeting summarizer with no budget
A detailed breakdown shows how to build an AI service for meeting summaries without paid APIs: Whisper handles transcription, FastAPI and React handle the product…
Linus Torvalds linked the spike in Linux 7.0 patches to AI and the risk of a release delay
Alibaba released the proprietary Qwen3.6-Plus and accelerated Qwen's pivot toward monetization
Auchan Tech showed how AI saves up to 70% of a systems analyst’s time on routine tasks
Kling, Veo and Sora: 10 leading AI models for video generation in 2026
OpenClaw has become a cultural phenomenon in China — mass events are already being dedicated to the agent
Yandex SpeechKit and CosyVoice compared on voice bot and audio podcast tasks
Alibaba releases HappyHorse — an open-source AI video generator that surpassed ByteDance’s Seedance
DeepSeek and Qwen: how China turned open models into a leap forward in the global AI race
China bet on open AI models, built its own ecosystem around them, and has already led Western startups to choose DeepSeek, Qwen, and other Chinese solutions more…
5 Docker containers for AI agent developers: spin up and get to work
Five Docker containers for agent developers: Ollama, Qdrant, n8n, Flowise, and Open WebUI — the entire core stack comes up in minutes with no configuration.