Open-source advocate John Mark Walker commemorates the 10th anniversary of the Nasdaq's "most successful" IPO to date, from the perspective of a company coder.
The SpaceX IPO filing is filled with AI bets, Starship dreams, and Elon Musk at the center | TechCrunch
SpaceX has finally made the contents of its IPO filing public, weeks ahead of what is expected to be the largest IPO ever and one that will make Musk the CEO, CTO, and chairman of the board.
OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that leadership wants OpenAI, the company, to focus. Seems like a plain old business strategy story. Nope! First, in more prosaic terms, the all-hands and …
Reframing “Open Source AI” with Meredith Whittaker: AI Impact Summit 2026
Roadmap: Open Source
After years of investing in open source software, we’re releasing our thinking on what positions these companies as emerging technology giants.
Something Big Happened in 1998
It is reasonable to accept that OSI founded Open Source with the Open Source Definition.
After Biggest IPO Ever: Is Elon Musk SpaceX's Steward?
The richest man on the planet has launched the world's biggest IPO ever. After the pricing of the SpaceX IPO was finalized yesterday, shares of the rocket-and-AI giant were traded on the NASDAQ for the first time today. The company's total valuation stands at the expected $1.75 trillion, with the roughly 550 million newly issued shares representing a value of $75 billion at the offering price ($135 per share). Shares opened approximately 11% higher on the first day of trading, touching $150. These ingredients make for the biggest IPO of all time. And for the greatest wealth in the hands of a single person: Elon Musk is, on paper at least, the first trillionaire in world history.
The Open Stack | LinkedIn
Notes from the field on sustainability, funding, and the systems we rely on
Supporting the npmx Alpha Launch - AT Protocol
The launch of npmx is an incredible showcase for how open source communities can build quickly on top of atproto.
IPFS at Eurosky Live Berlin: Highlights From A Bright Future
The Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProto or AT), which sits under Bluesky and many other emerging projects, has tremendous potential. At the IPFS Foundation, we're big fans, and not just because AT builds on the IPFS stack through IPLD and DASL (though admittedly building on DASL is one of the coolest
Block - Open Source
By collaborating in the open, we create higher quality software, hardware, and protocols through relentless collective examination, and also ensure our systems, hardware, and protocols evolve to meet real-world needs.
vitalik.eth on Twitter / X
2026 is the year we take back lost ground in computing self-sovereignty.But this applies far beyond the blockchain world.In 2025, I made two major changes to the software I use:* Switched almost fully to https://t.co/caFP0K5fYF (open source encrypted decentralized docs)*…— vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) January 22, 2026
Wild to see that @npmx.dev was the fastest-growing emerging open source organization by number of contributors in Q1 2026 according to osscar.dev. What is even more interesting: it was the only non-AI tool in the top 10.
open discussion on the intersection of @atproto.com and @iroh.computer
Proposal: iroh-with-atp
discourse.atprotocol.communityThe just-announced Open Source Endowment is now on Bluesky, and we're open to your ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects 🙏
Open Source Endowment
We heard the Bluesky community cares about Open Source, so we showed up 👋 Our endowment dedicated to supporting Open Source maintainers is already at $729k, and we're developing a model for distributing our first funding round. Have ideas on how to identify critical OSS projects? We're listening.
Playing with the idea of ATProto as a marketplace for compute github.com/publicdomainrelay/compute-con…
Compute Contracts - Blog
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Got a little reverse proxy over ssh auth'd via ATmosphere account going: fedproxy.com
Who else is using @roost.tools’ Osprey for moderation on ATProto? Would there be interest in some sort of shared repo for UDFs and Plugins?
