1+ week, 2+ day ago   (311+ words) OpenAI’s new Astra model pushes AI agents further into computer and browser automation, but its advanced capabilities have also intensified concerns around cybersecurity, transparency and human oversight. OpenAI has launched Astra, its latest and most powerful AI model, designed to…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (205+ words) Israeli startup DataAgent has raised $10 million to expand an open-source AI agent to automate repairs of production faults inside customers’ Kubernetes environments. The agent analyses live system state, topology and configuration drift where the data already resides, determines the likely…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (347+ words) Open Source For You An AI-native humanoid robot, alongside OpenBridge, an open-source ecosystem designed to let developers build, share and develop new robot capabilities. Zeroth has launched Bridge, a compact AI-native embodied robot designed for real-world development and experimentation. Alongside…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (202+ words) Agentic AI could make open-source EDA tools easier to use, improve and integrate, expanding access to chip design while leaving advanced-node signoff firmly dependent on specialised commercial technologies. Agentic artificial intelligence could give open-source electronic design automation (EDA) a significant…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (232+ words) Open Source For You Microsoft Research has integrated its Skala AI model into the open-source CP2K software, bringing high-accuracy simulations to large molecular systems. The AI-based exchange-correlation functional Skala (developed by Microsoft Research AI for Science) has been natively integrated into…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (216+ words) Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke created and open sourced a database-free Git server in Rust designed to run at scale directly on S3-compatible object storage. Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke built and open-sourced a custom Git server over a single weekend out…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (225+ words) TrueFoundry’s TrueForge is an MIT-licensed alternative to Claude Managed Agents designed to cut AI agent operational costs by 50%. On 19 August 2026, enterprise AI infrastructure platform TrueFoundry launched TrueForge, an open-source, vendor-neutral AI agent harness distributed under the MIT License on GitHub…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (197+ words) Open Source For You Atlas has released an open-source tool enabling AI agents to book low-cost carrier flights while enforcing mandatory human approvals. On 18 August 2026, Singapore-based travel-tech company Atlas announced the open-source release of Atlas Flight Booking, an Apache 2.0-licensed…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (170+ words) Microsoft’s OpenVMM is growing from an open-sourced virtualisation project into a broader community-driven infrastructure effort, with nearly 100 contributors and more than 200 forks. Microsoft open-sourced the Rust-based virtual machine manager in late 2024. OpenVMM supports Windows, Linux and macOS across x64 and AArch64 systems,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (324+ words) Atomicwork and New Measure have open-sourced ITSMBench, giving developers and enterprises a reproducible way to compare AI models and agent frameworks on real-world IT service-management tasks. Atomicwork and New Measure have launched ITSMBench, an open-source AI benchmark for evaluating how…...