At the Intersection of Science and AI

How Open Source AI Is Reshaping Economics, Talent, and Innovation

In a new report from The Linux Foundation, Researcher and Ecosystem Manager Anna Hermansen unpacks the current state of open source AI adoption and its broader impacts across industry, workforce, and policy. Defining Open Source AI: Still Evolving Open source AI is not just about software—it’s about code, data, and model weights, and how openly those elements are shared. Hermansen notes that definitions are still forming across the ecosystem, wi…

At the intersection of science and AI

Read the full story from the University of Pennsylvania. At a Data Driven Discovery Initiative event, faculty from psychology, chemistry, philosophy, criminology, economics, and earth and environmental science, shared their thoughts on how AI is fueling scientific advancements—and raising new questions.