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Institutional Data. Open Knowledge. AI. How can we create better bridges between them and work together to solve some of our big issues around data and access to knowledge in the age of AI?
The coming AI-BRIDGES Symposium in London (May 28-29) looks at these questions.
If you care about Open Knowledge, Institutional Data and AI, join us!
Registration open till May 21st. It's free, but seats are limited. Link to full program and registration here:

"How Japan Lost the Plot on Open Access" @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/how-japan-lost-the-plot-on-open-access
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Part of important experiments with 'types of data governance that establish a global knowledge commons, while supporting local communities'
How Open Licensing is Changing with AI: The NOODL License https://community.mozilladatacollectiv

How Open Licensing is Changing with AI: The NOODL License
Author: Alek Tarkowski For the last twenty five years, standardized open licenses were increasingly seen as a main tool for democratizing access to knowledge. Over less then a decade, a relatively narrow set of canonical choices emerged: the Creative Commons licensing stack https://creativecommons.org/licenses/list.en, coupled with

One of my strong suites in all the packaging work is the knowledge in my head.
"Why don't you write it down for others to benefit from, then?", you'd ask.
The thing is, this knowledge is basically "hot cache". I'm bumping hundreds of #Python packages in #Gentoo, so I remember stuff. And because of that, I can quickly notice some things or answer some questions.
If that were written down, the effort needed to find it would diminish all the gain. I mean, technically *it is* already written down, and the whole point is that I have it "cached".

❓Wie können Musikwissenschaftler:innen mit einem Knowledge Graph interagieren und relevante Informationen abrufen, ohne SPARQL-Expert:innen zu sein?
🤩 Wir freuen uns diese Frage mit euch im Rahmen einer Data Challenge zu diskutieren!✨Und in Kooperation mit dem @…
✨ From Notes to Nodes – Develop an AI-driven explor…

And "free" also implies that the worker is supposedly completely free. He is free in the sense that he can sell for as high a price as he can manage.
Himself?
Yes, for as much money as possible. - Now, in this market, the computer replaces the best thing the worker has to offer: knowledge and skill. The machine takes over both, and he himself is degraded to a mere machine operator. His actual abilities have been coaxed out of him and incorporated into the device. Consequently, he has less to sell than before, and what he can still sell is worth less.
He himself loses value?
Yes, because he is not only robbed of the ability to provide bread for his family, but also of one of the signs that prove to him that he is human. Now he is simplified and transformed into an operator. (Almost like in Kafka, where a man is transformed into a beetle; Kafka is a prophet in that regard.)"
Joseph Weizenbaum, Kurs auf den Eisberg, Serie Piper, Munich, 1987

Source: Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire New York-based Stainless, which helps developers generate SDKs from APIs, for at least $300M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-talks-buy-developer-tools-…

Anthropic in Talks to Buy Developer Tools Startup Used by OpenAI, Google
Anthropic is in advanced talks to acquire developer tools startup Stainless for at least $300 million, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. The four-year-old Stainless sells software to model makers including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google that helps developers, non-technical people ...

Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive…

Exclusive: Anthropic Preps Opus 4.7 Model, AI Design Tool
Anthropic is preparing its next flagship model, Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, according to a person with knowledge of the products. Those new products could be released as soon as this week, the person said. News of the upcoming AI design tool sent the share prices of Adobe, Wix and Figma down more than 2% in the house following

Sources: ByteDance suspended the global launch of Seedance 2.0 amid copyright disputes with Hollywood studios and streamers; it was launched in China last month (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bytedance-s…

ByteDance Suspends Launch of Video AI Model After Copyright Disputes With Hollywood
ByteDance has put on hold the global launch of its latest video-generation model, Seedance 2.0, due to a string of copyright disputes with major Hollywood studios and streaming platforms, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation. The TikTok parent released Seedance 2.0 to ...

Sources: UK-based cloud provider Nscale is in talks to buy a major data center site in West Virginia; Amazon and Meta have also expressed interest in the site (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nv

Nvidia Cloud Ally Nscale in Talks to Buy a Major U.S. Data Center Site Ahead of IPO
Nscale, an upstart cloud provider heavily backed by Nvidia whose customers include OpenAI and Microsoft, is in talks to take control of one of the largest available sites for AI data centers in the U.S., according to people with knowledge of the talks and fundraising documents viewed by The ...