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Anthropic is donating another $20 million to Public First Action

Anthropic is contributing an additional $20 million to Public First Action, bringing our total support to $40 million.

Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program

OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.

PEP 838: Adding python-version to pyvenv.cfg

Hi, I’d like to propose adding a python-version field to pyvenv.cfg. Unlike version and version_info, it records only the major and minor version and is resilient to patch version updates. Python Enhancement Proposals…

Autonomous infrastructure: Managing complexity in agentic workflows

AI agents are changing infrastructure operations. Learn the seven layers required to scale autonomy with confidence, control, and visibility.

From Campus to Community Part 3: What Universities Uniquely Bring

This is a series from Linux Foundation Board Chair, Nithya Ruff. Read Part One and Two.

Screaming Architecture with BCE / ECB

The structure of a system should reveal its purpose. Robert C. Martin coined the term Screaming Architecture for this idea roughly 15 years ago. In the first episode of my BCE screencast course, I put it to the test:…

Fragments: July 21

With this post, I’ll wrap up my notes from the second Future of Software Development Retreat. But before I do, I should note that the full Thoughtworks report on the retreat is now available. They have five headline…

A smart solar panel system you can 3D print, build, and learn from – with the Arduino® UNO™ Q board

Solar energy is one of the most important technologies of our time, and understanding how it works can be… enlightening! Julián Caro Linares, Senior Field Technology Evangelist at Qualcomm Europe, built a project that…

AI Projects with Raspberry Pi — out now!

This latest book from Raspberry Pi Press is a hands-on guide to building real-world AI applications on Raspberry Pi. The post AI Projects with Raspberry Pi — out now! appeared first on Raspberry Pi.

W3C Invites Implementations of EPUB 3.4, EPUB Reading Systems 3.4 and EPUB Accessibility 1.2

EPUB® 3 defines a distribution and interchange format for digital publications and documents. The EPUB format provides a means of representing, packaging, and encoding structured and semantically enhanced web content —…

AI speeds software development. Is your secret security keeping up?

As AI accelerates software development, secret sprawl is becoming one of the fastest growing sources of security, compliance, and operational risk.

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

Grabette: an open system to record robot-manipulation data

David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC

David Vélez and Robin Vince join the boards of the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC, bringing global leadership in finance, technology, and governance.

What You Should Know About Loop Engineering (Part 2)

Welcome to the 60th issue of AI Agents Simplified 🍻

On AI Writing

21 July 2026 by Phillip JohnstonOne of the more maddening parts about the widespread adoption of AI tools, for me, is the inescapability of AI writing. I see it in comments, posts, and newsletters. I even see my…

Canary tokens and digital tripwires

Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about until an attacker…

Local AI 201: Inference Engines, Hardware Stack

- Link to Introduction to Local AI (101) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRcByxXkJCQ - ODS https://github.com/osmantic/ods - Inference Engines blog series http://thelocalaibook.osmantic.com/ Find our speakers below: -…

Hugging Face Journal Club: AsyncOPD and How Stale Can On-Policy Distillation Be?

The Hugging Face post-training team discusses how on-policy distillation (OPD) can be made fully asynchronous to improve the throughput of training by 2-3x Paper: https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.24143

Python quiz: EuroPython 2026 edition

Replay the EuroPython 2026 Python quiz. These are the questions asked during the EuroPython 2026 quiz. They will test your knowledge of the Python language, the community, and of EuroPython 2026. Since we were…