Open Source Digest: Community, Security, and Innovation

Open Source Digest: Community, Security, and Innovation

Community and Collaboration Open source thrives on community. This week, we highlight initiatives that bring people together, from social coworking to AI and Wikipedia collaboration. Social Coworking and Office Hours – Getting to Know SORTEE: SORTEE (Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolution) hosts social coworking sessions and office hours to build community … Read more

Full Platform Overview | H2O.ai Managed Cloud

Full Platform Overview | H2O.ai Managed Cloud

Video by H2O.ai via YouTube
Full Platform Overview | H2O.ai Managed Cloud

H2O.ai Managed Cloud is a fully managed, isolated AI environment where data preparation, model development, and deployment all run in one place.

This first lesson covers what the platform is and the problem it solves. Most teams are not short of ideas, they are slowed down by data living in one system, models being built in another, and deployment happening somewhere else.

You will also see the two principles behind the setup. Managed means H2O.ai runs the infrastructure for you, including GPU compute when the workload needs it. Isolated means your environment is dedicated, so data, compute, and workloads are never shared with another customer.

Covered in this video:
The three capabilities the platform brings together: automated machine learning, generative AI, and model operations
Why fragmented tooling causes delays, duplicated effort, and gaps in governance
Where H2O Driverless AI, H2O LLM Studio, and Enterprise h2oGPTe sit in the platform
What managed and isolated mean for security, privacy, and enterprise governance

LINKS
H2O.ai University: https://h2o.ai/university
Documentation: https://docs.h2o.ai
Request access or a demo: https://h2o.ai/demo
Support: support@h2o.ai

ABOUT H2O.ai

H2O.ai builds the platform enterprises use to develop, deploy, and operate AI on their own private data, across predictive machine learning and generative AI.

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Hugging Face Journal Club: Direct On-Policy Distillation

Hugging Face Journal Club: Direct On-Policy Distillation

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Hugging Face Journal Club: Direct On-Policy Distillation

The Hugging Face research team discusses the paper "Weak-to-Strong Generalization via Direct On-Policy Distillation" which proposes a cheap way to transfer the benefits of reinforcement learning from small models to much larger ones. Instead of imitating the smaller model directly, it measures how RL changed the small model’s policy and uses that change as a dense reward signal to train the larger model. The result is a form of weak-to-strong generalization that can match or outperform direct RL on the larger model at a fraction of the compute cost.

Paper link: https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.05394

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Transforming Air Cargo Operations: Optimizing with Vision & Robotics – OpenCV Live! 220

Transforming Air Cargo Operations: Optimizing with Vision & Robotics - OpenCV Live! 220

Video by OpenCV via YouTube
Transforming Air Cargo Operations: Optimizing with Vision & Robotics - OpenCV Live! 220

Air cargo still runs on estimates — dimensions eyeballed at acceptance, and containers packed by "feel." Suraj Nair, founder of Singapore-based Speedcargo, joins OpenCV Live to show how 3D computer vision, optimization algorithms, and gantry robotics replace that guesswork with measured cargo data. He’ll cover what it takes to get perception working reliably in a live cargo terminal, and where the industry’s automation efforts go next.

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NatWest Head of AI: Stop Wasting Engineering Talent on Non-Differentiating AI Controls

NatWest Head of AI: Stop Wasting Engineering Talent on Non-Differentiating AI Controls

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NatWest Head of AI: Stop Wasting Engineering Talent on Non-Differentiating AI Controls

Are your best AI engineers wasting time rebuilding the exact same compliance guardrails as every other bank? Greig Cowan, Head of AI and Data Science at NatWest, argues that financial institutions must mutualize their underlying AI governance layer through open source so they can focus on true customer-facing innovation.

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AI Agent Loops

AI Agent Loops

Video by Open Data Science and AI Conference via YouTube
AI Agent Loops

Want to learn more about AI in person? Check out ODSC AI West 2026, coming to Burlingame this October 27th-29th: https://hubs.li/Q04cYsmk0

#DataScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ODSCAI

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Late Night Linux – Episode 398

Late Night Linux – Episode 398

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Late Night Linux – Episode 398

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Reports of desktop Linux adoption numbers are probably exaggerated, the Steam Frame seemingly gets closer, Valve’s European logistics partner leaks people’s data, Proxmox gains Arm64 support, GNOME Boxes makes some changes, and a quick KDE Korner. With guest hosts Chris from Linux After Dark, and Sean from Hybrid Cloud Show.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-398/

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How SAP Business AI Helps Lemvigh-Müller Automate Documents

How SAP Business AI Helps Lemvigh-Müller Automate Documents

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How SAP Business AI Helps Lemvigh-Müller Automate Documents

Danish wholesaler Lemvigh-Müller transformed manual document handling with SAP Business AI. The company automatically processes incoming business documents, including orders, delivery notes, and invoices received as PDFs and emails, reducing manual work and helping teams focus on execution rather than paperwork.

Discover how a 200-hour AI project became a scalable foundation for broader business process automation.

0:00 – Why Supply Chain Efficiency Matters
0:27 – About Lemvigh-Müller
0:36 – SAP Business AI Automates Document Processing
1:06 – From Manual Work to Intelligent Dashboards
1:21 – Scaling Automation Across Business Processes
1:38 – How to Start Small and Succeed with AI

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