I'm still mourning these 5 open source apps that vanished from the Play Store

I still mourn about these five open source apps that vanished from the Play Store. AdAway is a system-wide ad blocker. It’s ...
Android Police

I replaced 6 subscription-based Android apps with these free open source gems and couldn't be happier

Parth is a technology analyst and writer specializing in the comprehensive review and feature exploration of the Android ecosystem. His work is distinguished by its meticulous focus on flagship ...
Wired

The Best Alternative Operating Systems to Get Google Off Your Phone

Want Google out of your life? It's pretty easy to find alternative search, email, and photo storage providers, but it's much harder to come up with a mobile operating system that's free of Google. The ...
MIT Technology Review

What’s next for Chinese open-source AI

Chinese open models are spreading fast, from Hugging Face to Silicon Valley. Here’s why that matters. MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to ...
Nature

Open-source AI tool beats giant LLMs in literature reviews — and gets citations right

Researchers have published the recipe for an artificial-intelligence model that reviews the scientific literature better than some major large language models (LLMs) are able to, and gets the ...
Scientific American

OpenClaw—what happens when AI stops chatting and starts doing

When a friend messaged me two days ago about Clawdbot—a new open-source AI agent that has since been renamed OpenClaw—I expected yet another disappointing “assistant.” But it was already a viral ...
Reuters

Open-source AI models vulnerable to criminal misuse, researchers warn

Thousands of servers run open-source LLMs outside major AI platforms security controls, researchers say Researchers identify removed guardrails in hundreds of open-source LLM instances LLMs can be ...
Tom's Guide

Samsung just confirmed its Android XR smart glasses will launch this year — here’s how they can beat Ray-Ban Meta

Smart Glasses I wore the most popular Ray-Ban Meta alternatives for a month — and they’re a lot better than I expected Samsung Phones Samsung Galaxy Unpacked February 2026: Galaxy S26, Galaxy S26 ...
TechCrunch

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta’s Llama

Many in the industry think the winners of the AI model market have already been decided: Big Tech will own it (Google, Meta, Microsoft, a bit of Amazon) along with their model makers of choice, ...
TechCrunch

China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

China’s Moonshot AI, which is backed by the likes of Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), today released a new open source model, Kimi K2.5, which understands text, image, and video. The ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Google Android Told by EU to Open Up to Rival AI Systems

Google was handed a six-month European Union deadline to lift technical barriers to rival AI search assistants on Android and give key data to other search engine providers in the latest round of its ...
Liliputing

Brax open_slate is a privacy-focused tablet with Ubuntu and de-Googled Android support (crowdfunding)

The open_slate is an upcoming tablet with a 12 inch, 2.4K IPS LCD display, a MediaTek Genio 720 processor and support for up to 16GB of RAM and 256GB of onboard storage. But what makes it unlike most ...