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Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge…

Verda has raised $189 million in new funding, led by Emergence Capital, to accelerate its full-stack AI cloud, from data centre capacity to large-scale serving.

Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is.

A ton of attention was paid recently to some offhand statements from OpenAI and Microsoft employees that surfaced in filings in the NY Times’ ongoing case against OpenAI, which has been conso…

Yaak earns about $5k MRR from commercial licenses for its binaries. Why I chose this model, how it's working…

On Friday, The Washington Post reported on a contentious White House meeting in which the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jay Bhattacharya, tried to fend off yet another effort to place funding decisions under political control. The move came from Russell Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which has sought to limit and control research funds. The Post suggested that Bhattacharya ended up on the losing side of the fight. This initial leak has been confirmed and expanded on by outlets such as The New York Times and Politico . It now appears that the administration is drafting an executive order that would give Vought veto power over every individual grant awarded by the NIH. If at first you don't succeed The NIH is the largest funder of biomedical research on the planet, and its $47 billion budget is larger than that of the next 10 research funders combined. Its funding, distributed largely through grants to academic researchers at universities, supports everything from basic biological research to clinical trials and has helped the biotechnology industry flourish. Read full article Comments