The Overture Maps Foundation, a project to standardize map data, was founded in December 2022 by Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and TomTom, and is hosted by the Linux Foundation. I talked to Marc Prioleau ...

SANTA MONICA, CA, JANUARY 8, 2025: Smoke from the nearby fires fills the sky as stunt man Kane Safari balances on a railing at the Santa Monica Pier on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. (Christina House / ...

Today, Databricks kicked off its annual Data and AI summit with a long-awaited move: the open sourcing of its three-year-old Unity Catalog platform that provides customers a unified solution for their ...

A panel debate about openness, open data, open source, and AI development produced a veritable pile-up of enlightening ironies. One can argue that the UK government's proposal to change copyright ...

Breakthroughs in physics have reshaped everything from communications to consumer electronics. Yet these methods remain rare in medical practice, where healthcare costs continue to climb, and ...

Open-source data science platform provider Knime AG said today it has closed on a new, $30 million investment from its longtime backer Invus. The round is the first major investment the company has ...

Open source is at a crossroads. For the past few years, venture capital has directly or indirectly paid for many of the contributors and much of the infrastructure it needed to keep going. That was ...

The struggle between open source and proprietary software is well understood. But the tensions permeating software circles for decades have shuffled into the artificial intelligence space, in part ...

Pension fund managers are the ultimate asset owners, responsible for the long-term financial security of millions of retirees. They face the challenge of allocating their capital to a variety of asset ...

No-Headquarters/BOZEMAN, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Datavolo, the company built to ...

Open source software has a number of benefits over commercial products, not least the fact that it can be downloaded for free. This means anyone can analyse the code and, assuming they have the right ...