Alibaba shut down Qwen Code's free tier today, following a license bait-and-switch from fellow Chinese company MiniMax.

Generative AI is erasing open source code provenance. FOSS reciprocity collapses when attribution and ownership disappear. The commons that built AI may not survive its success. We live in an ...

Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) launched an open-source AI model, Qwen3-Coder, for software development that the company described as its most advanced agentic AI coding model to date. Shares of Alibaba rose ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -Alibaba Group announced on Wednesday the launch of Qwen3-Coder, an open-source artificial intelligence model for software development that the Chinese e-commerce giant described as ...

The Chinese company said its new open-source model can continue to improve over hundreds of iterations, as AI vendors race to ...

Open source has always had issues, but the benefits outweighed the costs/risks. AI is not merely exponentially accelerating tasks, it is disproportionately increasing risks. Coders are understandably ...

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A growing body of academic research warns that AI-assisted “vibe coding,” where language models assemble software from open-source components with minimal human oversight, is creating hidden costs for ...

'Like handing out the blueprint to a bank vault': Why AI led one company to abandon open source ...

Open source has never been about a sprawling community of contributors. Not in the way we’ve imagined it, anyway. Most of the software we all depend on is maintained by a tiny core of people, often ...