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Favorite The European Commission recently published a public draft of the standards request associated with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Anyone who wants to comment on it has until May 16, after which comments will be considered and a final request to the European Standards Organizations (ESOs) will be issued.
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Shared by voicesofopensource May 2, 2024
Favorite The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) posted a request for comments on Dual Use Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models with Widely Available Model Weights, and it has received 362 comments. In addition to the Open Source Initiative’s (OSI) joint letter drafted by Mozilla and the Center for Democracy and
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Favorite I was invited to join Mozilla and the Columbia Institute of Global Politics in an effort that explores what “open” should mean in the AI era. A cohort of 40 leading scholars and practitioners from Open Source AI startups and companies, non-profit AI labs, and civil society organizations came
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Favorite March 27, 2024 Mr. Bertram LeeNational Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)U.S. Department of Commerce1401 Constitution Avenue NWWashington, DC 20230 RE: [Docket Number 240216-0052] Dual Use Foundation Artificial Intelligence Models with Widely Available Model Weights Dear Mr. Lee: The Open Source Initiative (“OSI”) appreciates the opportunity to provide our views
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Favorite The OSI contributed, along with other members of civil society and academia, to a letter drafted by Mozilla and the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) asking the White House and Congress to exercise great caution when considering whether and how to regulate the publication of open models. The
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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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Favorite In OSI’s feedback to the European Commission’s proposed Standard Essential Patent (SEP) Regulation (SEP-R), OSI recommended that the legislation add a waiting period for patent claims registered under the regulation as standard-essential after the standard has been ratified. The recommendation was based on the social purpose behind tolerating the
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Favorite The OSI joined the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) at the beginning of 2023 to support its mission to accelerate the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of and investment in digital public goods. Digital public goods
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Favorite SAN FRANCISCO – July 12, 2023 – The public policy team of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has launched the Open Policy Alliance (OPA), a new program aimed at building and supporting a coalition of underrepresented voices from public benefit and charitable foundations. The OPA, has been created in
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Favorite Traduit en français. It’s good news that the European Commission is now considering the value and needs of Open Source in its policy deliberations. What’s not as good is that it does so through the wrong lens. The Commission needs to extend its consultations, Expert Groups and other work
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