Favorite French President Emmanuel Macron alongside NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and Mistral AI’s Arthur Mensch celebrated a landmark partnership at Vivatech 2025 last week aimed at propelling Europe to the forefront of the global AI race with a strategic move toward European technological sovereignty. But what could truly support achieving
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Shared by voicesofopensource June 18, 2025
Favorite As the European Union (EU) prepares its budget for the coming years, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has endorsed a proposal by Open Source think tank “Open Forum Europe” to create an EU Sovereign Tech Fund. The fund, modeled on the German Sovereign Tech fund, would support maintenance and
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Favorite Open Source Founders Summit (#05F525), held May 19–20 in Paris, brought together a vibrant community of Open Source entrepreneurs, builders, and advocates for two days of deep, engaging conversations about what it takes to create sustainable, successful Open Source companies. As part of the action, the Open Source Initiative
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Shared by voicesofopensource May 20, 2025
Favorite In 2024, the European Union approved the Artificial Intelligence Act, the world’s first legal framework for AI. Part of the law mandated the creation of a Code of Practice for General Purpose AI for AI developers. The OSI applied to take part in the drafting of these rules, but
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Shared by voicesofopensource March 27, 2025
Favorite Every year, public authorities in the European Union spend around 14% of annual GDP on services, works and goods. As European governments continue to digitalize, a growing share of this spending is on digital solutions. Sadly, few of these solutions are built on Open Source software, but that might
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Favorite TUI Group is one of the world’s leading global tourism services, providing 21 million customers with an unmatched holiday experience in 180 regions. TUI Group covers the end-to-end tourism chain with over 400 owned hotels, 16 cruise ships, 1,200 travel agencies, and 5 airlines covering all major holiday destinations
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Favorite If you have been following the progress of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), you may have been intrigued to hear that the next step following publication of the Act as law in the Official Journal is the issue of a European Standards Request (ESR) to the three official European
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Shared by voicesofopensource December 10, 2024
Favorite I participated as a panelist at the CPDP-ai 2024 conference in Brussels last week where we discussed the significant contributions of Open Source to AI and highlighted the specific properties that differentiate Open Source AI from proprietary solutions. Representing the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the globally recognized non-profit that
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Shared by voicesofopensource June 4, 2024
Favorite The definition of “open source” in the most recent version (article 2(48)) of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) goes beyond the Open Source Definition (OSD) managed by OSI. It says: “Free and open-source software is understood as software the source code of which is openly shared and the license
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Favorite During 2023, OSI and many others across the Open Source communities spent a great deal of time and energy engaging with the various co-legislators of the European Union (EU) concerning the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Together with a revision to Europe’s Product Liability Directive (PLD), the CRA will bring
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