







Publisher plans to use these tools in its upcoming life simulation title, Petit Planet, featuring AI-powered NPCs
A Primordial Computing Soup
Fostering AI art scenius, creating an open planetary network of robots

Kosmos: An AI Scientist for Autonomous Discovery
Today, we are announcing Kosmos, our next-generation AI Scientist. Kosmos is a major upgrade on Robin, our previous AI Scientist. You can read about it in our technical report, here. Kosmos is available to use from day one on our platform, here.

NSF and NVIDIA award Ai2 a combined $152M to support building a national level fully open AI ecosystem | Ai2
Ai2 has been awarded a combined $152 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and NVIDIA as part of a jointly funded project to advance our research and develop truly open AI models and solutions that will accelerate scientific discovery.

Designing the hf CLI as an agent-optimized way to work with the Hub
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
David Hendrickson on Twitter / X
🌞This is big Local AI news! A new open-source Computer-Use LLM has just launched. Holo 3.1 is H Company’s (🇫🇷) new local computer-use agent model that beats Qwen3.5-397B, Kimi-K2.5, and Sonnet 4.6!Since it is built for local deployment → ⬩ Runs fully on your machine… https://t.co/CpOEsuWN2k pic.twitter.com/w39iOh7cO1— David Hendrickson (@TeksEdge) June 2, 2026

GGML and llama.cpp join HF to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

How To Think About AI (with Cory Doctorow)
AI might just be useful once we get through the huckster phase.

AI in World Machine Theory
The telos of AI is to create liveness at planetary scale

UC San Diego Awarded $4.85M to Grow NEMAR into HPC Hub for Neuro-AI
NIH funding will expand NEMAR's AI capabilities, integrate petabyte-scale neuroelectromagnetic datasets with SDSC supercomputing, and support new foundation models for brain research and broader community access.

Import AI 464: Fables writes GPU kernels; AI automation; and analog computation
Is this the beginning of a new world?

Open-Source EDA Birds-of-a-Feather: Open-Source EDA, Data and Collaboration Summit
This “Open-Source EDA, Data and Collaboration” Birds-of-a-Feather session is the seventh in a series that began at DAC 2018. As semiconductor design confronts the mounting complexities of advanced nodes, Augmented AI is transitioning from an experimental concept to an indispensable engineering co-pilot. The DAC 2026 session explores the transformative intersection of AI, open-source software and hardware, and the engineers who build them, serving as an informal forum for anyone to share ideas and the latest updates on our open-source ecosystem.
Anthropic and Amazon expand collaboration for up to 5 gigawatts of new compute
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
OpenAI debuts a life sciences AI model, entering crowd of tech giants selling to pharma
OpenAI became the latest tech giant to launch a life sciences-focused AI offering, aiming to build a biopharma business.

AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean
Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.
Open Source for Science Fund Launches to Power AI-Driven Discovery
A new multi-donor fund by Renaissance Philanthropy seeded by Biohub and Wellcome opens its first call for proposals.

AI Doesn't Have ROI
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