Open Source Digest: Coworking, IoT, Blender & More

Open Source Digest: Coworking, IoT, Blender & More

Community & Events Social Coworking & Office Hours: Explore SORTEE and Vale text linting in upcoming sessions. Africa Wiki Women Leadership: Reflections from the “Mentored, Empowered, Leading” program. Mindtrek Conference 2026: Mark your calendar for this tech event. FSF Fundraiser Extended: Help reach the goal and grab an anti-surveillance cover. RubyConf 2026 Controversy: A supporter … Read more

Open Source News: AI Agents, Models & More

Open Source News: AI Agents, Models & More

The Open Source Landscape: Innovation, Burnout, and Practical AI This week’s digest showcases the incredible breadth of open source and AI news, from massive multimodal models to practical tools and important conversations about maintainer wellbeing. The emergence of Thinking Machines’ Inkling, a 1-trillion parameter open-source model, signals a new era where cutting-edge AI capabilities are … Read more

Introducing the Codex Micro

Introducing the Codex Micro

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Introducing the Codex Micro

See how the Codex Micro, a customizable keyboard built with Work Louder for Codex, helps you move through a build without leaving your flow. In this demo, GPT-5.6 Sol creates a word game while the Micro handles voice dictation, task switching, reasoning controls, permission requests, and follow-up prompts.

Get yours: https://openai.com/supply/

Chapters:
00:00 Introducing the Codex Micro
00:24 Voice dictation
00:45 Skills, Plan mode, and reasoning
01:01 Switching between tasks
01:16 Notifications and permissions
01:28 Queueing follow-up work
01:49 Game result and customization

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New Model: Inkling by Thinking Machine on Hugging Face

New Model: Inkling by Thinking Machine on Hugging Face

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New Model: Inkling by Thinking Machine on Hugging Face

Inkling by Thinking Machines is here, a 1 TRILLION parameter open model that natively understands images, text, AND audio, with a 1M token context window. In this video, we break down the architecture, show you how to run it, and share our vibe-eval results.

Now on Hugging Face 🤗 https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling

⚡ TL;DR
• 975B total / 41B active params (MoE, 256 experts)
• Native image, text & audio input — one model, no separate encoders
• 1M context window, trained on 45T tokens
• BF16 + calibrated NVFP4 checkpoints, MTP layers for speculative decoding
• Day-0 support: transformers, SGLang, vLLM, llama.cpp

⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro — what is Inkling?
00:00 Architecture deep dive (relative attention, hybrid attention, SConv)
00:00 MoE with shared expert sinks
00:00 Vision & audio towers explained
00:00 Running it: transformers pipeline
00:00 Serving with SGLang & vLLM
00:00 Free inference via Inference Providers
00:00 1-bit GGUFs with llama.cpp & Unsloth
00:00 Agentic coding demo with Pi
00:00 MTP speculative decoding
00:00 Vision & audio vibe evals
00:00 Post-training with tinker + OpenEnv
00:00 Benchmarks & final thoughts

🔧 TRY IT
• Model (BF16): https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling
• Model (NVFP4): https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/Inkling-NVFP4
• GGUF quants: https://huggingface.co/unsloth/inkling-GGUF
• Inference Providers (free for 2h at launch): https://huggingface.co/thinkingmachines/inkling?inference_api=true
• Quick start: pip install -U transformers, then pipeline("any-to-any", model="thinkingmachines/Inkling")

📚 RESOURCES
• Full blog post: https://huggingface.co/blog/thinkingmachines-inkling
• Vibe eval images & results: https://huggingface.co/buckets/merve/inkling
• RL example (tinker + OpenEnv): https://github.com/huggingface/OpenEnv
• Distillation with TRL (GOLD): https://github.com/huggingface/trl

💡 KEY TAKEAWAYS
• Needs ~2TB VRAM in BF16 (600GB in NVFP4) — but 1-bit GGUFs retain ~74% top-1 accuracy at 86% smaller
• Reasoning effort is tunable from "none" to "max"; medium (0.7) is the sweet spot
• The model transcribes/OCRs inputs first, then reasons — prompt accordingly
• Great for multimodal reasoning apps, document processing, and fine-tuning

👥 By burtenshaw, merve, pcuenq & ariG23498 from Hugging Face

#Inkling #ThinkingMachines #HuggingFace #OpenSource #LLM #Multimodal #AI #MachineLearning

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Tips for Applying as a GSoC contributor, Stephanie Taylor, #FOSSASIA Summit 2026 #opensource101

Tips for Applying as a GSoC contributor, Stephanie Taylor, #FOSSASIA Summit 2026 #opensource101

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Tips for Applying as a GSoC contributor, Stephanie Taylor, #FOSSASIA Summit 2026 #opensource101

Want to become a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) contributor? This session shares the best tips for applying successfully to GSoC and starting your open source journey. Learn how to choose the right project, match your interests with organizations, and avoid common application mistakes.

We’ll cover what to do—and what not to do—to improve your chances of being selected and becoming a long-term open source contributor. Perfect for students, beginners, and future GSoC applicants.

FOSSASIA Summit 2026 held in Bangkok, is Asia’s leading Open Source tech conference featuring sessions on #AI, #Cloud, #DevOps, #Open Hardware, #Security, #Web #Mobile Technologies, #Web3, and #Databases. Learn more: http://summit.fossasia.org

Session slides: https://eventyay.com/ev/88882f3e/talk/NQL8GB89SNN3/

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AI Agents Unchained by Sinan Ozdemir

AI Agents Unchained by Sinan Ozdemir

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AI Agents Unchained by Sinan Ozdemir

Multi-agent systems promise autonomous workflows, specialized agents, and major productivity gains—but production reality is more complicated.

In this ODSC AI East 2026 session, Sinan Ozdemir, Founder of Crucible and AI & LLM Advisor at Tola Capital, explores the case for and against harnessing multi-agent systems. Drawing on enterprise deployments, his book Building Agentic AI, and real-world lessons from agent failures, Sinan breaks down why autonomy alone is not enough.

The session examines how teams can balance agent freedom with architectural constraints, evaluation loops, cost controls, human-in-the-loop gates, and progressive autonomy. Watch to learn how to decide how much “harness” your agents need and how to build multi-agent systems that deliver value without becoming systems you have to babysit.

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What’s New in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 | Release Highlights & AI Innovations

What's New in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 | Release Highlights & AI Innovations

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What's New in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 | Release Highlights & AI Innovations

SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 brings Business AI, intelligent agents, and continuous ERP innovation into everyday work.

In this release overview, Bert Schulze, Head of Product Success for SAP Cloud ERP, shares his personal highlights from the 2608 release. See how SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition continues to evolve with AI-assisted experiences, SAP-managed business scenarios, and core ERP innovations across finance, manufacturing, workplace safety and compliance, and professional services.

You’ll see how Business AI helps people work faster while staying in control, from updating ERP transactions with natural language, to accelerating receivables and payables clearing, to helping production supervisors identify scheduling conflicts and keep operations moving. You’ll also get a closer look at new capabilities for hazardous substance inventory management and a redesigned time-recording experience across desktop and mobile.

🧠 AI-assisted easy fill — Use natural language to update ERP transactions faster and reduce manual data entry.

💰 Receivables and payables clearing agent — Analyze open items, propose balanced clearing entries, explain recommendations, and support faster financial close.

🏭 Production planning and operations agent — Help supervisors check component availability, identify scheduling conflicts, and support order release through natural language.

🦺 Hazardous substance inventory — Centralize hazardous substance, product, and safety information to support compliance and workplace safety.

⏱️ Time recording app — Log project time faster with flexible entry, bulk edits, personalized views, and a consistent desktop and mobile experience.

Chapters:
00:00 Welcome & Introduction
00:35 The Autonomous Enterprise & Business AI
00:58 SAP-managed business scenarios
01:40 Business AI in SAP S/4HANA Cloud
01:54 AI-assisted easy fill (User Experience)
02:29 Receivables & payables clearing agent (Finance)
02:58 Production planning & operations agent (Manufacturing)
03:25 Hazardous substance inventory (Workplace Safety & Compliance)
03:50 New and improved time-recording app (Professional Services)

• Read Bert Schulze’s complete SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2608 Release Highlights blog: https://community.sap.com/t5/enterprise-resource-planning-blog-posts-by-sap/what-s-new-in-sap-s-4hana-cloud-public-edition-2608-release/ba-p/14438491
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• Learn more about SAP Cloud ERP: https://sap.to/6056CIrvp

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Windows Weekly 992

Windows Weekly 992

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Windows Weekly 992

Windows Weekly is about more than Windows. Veteran Microsoft insiders Paul Thurrott and Richard Campbell join Leo for a deep dive into the most valuable company in the world. From consumer to enterprise, AI to Xbox, Windows Weekly is the only Microsoft podcast you’ll ever need.

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Defend Yourself! Defend the Indfensible – The Linux Cast

Defend Yourself! Defend the Indfensible - The Linux Cast

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Defend Yourself! Defend the Indfensible - The Linux Cast

The guys are back, this time the wheel of doom returns! We’re going to have to defend takes that are not ours. Should be fun.

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Open Source Digest: Coworking, Security, and Culture

Open Source Digest: Coworking, Security, and Culture

Community & Collaboration Social Coworking & SORTEE: Join upcoming sessions to connect with the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolution (SORTEE) community. Also, explore sessions focused on Vale and text linting for better documentation. WikiRiksa Reflections: Dive into insights on leadership and knowledge collaboration from the WikiRiksa project. KeycloakCon Japan 2026: Navigate … Read more