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The 2026 State of Open Source in Financial Services survey is still open. If you work in financial services, there is still time to have your perspective included in the final report. It only takes 10 minutes. Share your perspective: https://www.research.net/r/S9JJ7T5

ICYMI: AI is driving strong technical hiring in Europe, but full-stack readiness gaps limit impact. LF Research's 2026 State of Tech Talent Europe report: +27% net hiring effect projected for 2026. Orgs are 3.7x more likely to upskill than hire externally. www.linuxfoundation.org/research/tec...

In part 1 of a new series, Linux Foundation Board Chair, Nithya Ruff explores the deep history of open source in academia, the role of universities in public-interest tech, and the challenges ahead as the AI landscape shifts. Read now: www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/from-ca...

The 2026 World of Open Source Survey closes this week! This is your chance to add your voice to public research on AI, digital sovereignty, and OSS security. Take the survey today: https://www.research.net/r/Z35W9Q3

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OSPOs rarely generate direct revenue, which makes them hard to defend when budgets tighten. Dr. Dawn Foster breaks down Ibrahim Haddad’s four-dimension framework for measuring OSPO value: ROI, resilience, risk foresight, and strategic influence. https://bit.ly/44GV1Lg #Opensource #OSPO

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AI isn't eliminating Europe's tech jobs. It's reshaping them. The 2026 State of Tech Talent Europe report shows a +27% net hiring growth in IT jobs, 48% understaffing in cybersecurity, and upskilling outpacing external recruitment for talent recruitment. https://bit.ly/3SrhvNu #OpenSource

Still haven't taken the 2026 World of Open Source Survey? There is still time. Your perspective on AI, digital sovereignty, and OSS security helps build a public dataset that benefits the whole community. https://www.research.net/r/Z35W9Q3

Most OSPOs are evaluated on activity counts. A new report by Ibrahim Haddad with LF Research and TODO Group proposes a better way: four dimensions that connect OSPO work to actual business outcomes including cost avoidance, resilience, risk foresight, and ecosystem influence. https://bit.ly/4eJTl8z

Organizations spend billions cleaning the same entity data. A new report examines how open entity graphs lower that cost, reduce AI hallucinations, and improve compliance across financial services, supply chains, and more. Read the full report: https://bit.ly/4wgiFKF #OpenData #LFResearch #AI

The June 2026 Linux Foundation Newsletter is live! June 2026 LF Newsletter is out. Save up to 75% on LF Education certifications June 23–26, four Research surveys, and project updates from across the ecosystem. Catch up on the latest news, research, and community updates: https://bit.ly/4vlr0fL

66% of organizations remain unfamiliar with the EU Cyber Resilience Act. The September 2026 reporting deadline is months away. New data from LF Research and @OpenSSF: awareness stalled, manufacturer readiness static, CVEs up 394% YoY in Q1 2026. Read the full Report: https://bit.ly/4w3JpO5

Europe cut junior tech hiring by 3% in 2025. The rest of the world grew it by 14%. Who becomes a senior engineer in 2036 if nobody gets hired at entry level today? Read Mirko Boehm’s blog on the structural gap hiding behind Europe's positive net hiring numbers: https://bit.ly/4vAWGhA #OpenSource

The 2026 State of Open Source in Financial Services survey is live. FINOS and LF Research want to know how financial services organizations are using open source and managing AI, compliance, and cybersecurity. Your input matters. It only takes 10 minutes. Take the survey:https://bit.ly/4eHuGl4

Day-0 support for the MiniMax M3 model family is officially live on vllm (a @pytorch.org Foundation project). This release makes it practical to serve heavy production workloads like million-token contexts and native multimodal reasoning—without sacrificing speed. Read more: https://bit.ly/4gzVl5M

Trust is the missing layer in AI. The Appia Foundation was formed to make safety claims verifiable, providing the infrastructure developers need to build secure, reliable, and trustworthy AI systems. Read more from Paul Sawers in @thenewstack.io: https://bit.ly/4eFjpS6

LF AI & Data Foundation recently launched the DocLang Working Group, founded by the Linux Foundation, IBM, Red Hat and ABBYY, to develop and maintain a specification that supports more reliable, interoperable document processing across AI and agentic workflows. Get involved: https://doclang.ai/

Shortly after OpenMDW 1.1 dropped, NVIDIA AI announced adoption of the open source AI licence for its major model families. Learn more about how this easy-to-apply license enables openness, consistency, and clarity across all components of an AI model distribution. https://openmdw.ai/

AI costs are volatile and hard to justify. The Tokenomics Foundation will bring open standards to token-based spending.Learn more about the Tokenomics Foundation and opportunities to join: https://www.tokeneconomics.com/

Zephyr Project has reached orbit for the second time. Antmicro and Aethero flew Zephyr on a CubeSat aboard a SpaceX Falcon-9 rideshare in March 2026. The same open source RTOS running in critical embedded systems on Earth is now running in space 🚀 www.zephyrproject.org/antmicro-sup...

The @openssf.org AI Security survey is still open. If you have not taken it yet, now is a good time. Your input directly shapes the tooling priorities and community resources the OSS ecosystem will rely on. Share your voice: https://linuxfoundation.research.net/r/KLBG8N8

To navigate complex software ecosystems, organizations need clear benchmarks. LF Research and TODO Group have launched a global survey, supported by CNCF and FinOps, to map open source program outcomes. It takes 5 to 10 minutes. Share your experience: https://bit.ly/4dQvi8V

Finding the right tech talent is becoming more challenging as systems grow more complex. The 2026 State of Tech Talent Report reveals a persistent open source talent gap, with demand heavily centered around infrastructure-critical skills and practical capability. Dive in: https://bit.ly/4dtem6H

What does the open source community actually think about AI, digital sovereignty, and OSS security in 2026? The Linux Foundation wants to find out. The 2026 World of Open Source Survey covers these critical topics and more. It only takes 15 minutes. Take the survey: https://bit.ly/4oqhUf1

AI is reshaping technical careers across Europe. A key takeaway from the 2026 State of Tech Talent Europe Report: addressing the skills gap isn't just about finding talent, it's about helping people develop the skills needed for an AI-driven future. Read more: https://bit.ly/4ukowgl #TechTalent

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The Linux Foundation has launched the OpenSharing Project, an open protocol for sharing AI assets and data across organizations, platforms, and clouds. Contributed by Databricks, it extends Delta Sharing to enable interoperable exchange of AI models, agent skills, and unstructured data.

The role of the OSPO is evolving fast. From governing open source AI models and strengthening security, to enabling InnerSource collaboration and optimizing cloud costs, OSPOs are becoming critical strategic functions. Help shape this year’s story by taking the Survey: https://bit.ly/4dQvi8V

Most OSS security practices were not designed for the generative AI era. @openssf.org and LF Research want to know how the community is responding. If you maintain, build, or secure open source, your input matters. Take the survey: https://linuxfoundation.research.net/r/KLBG8N8

The CRA's December 2027 deadline is closing in. 66% of the industry is still unfamiliar with the regulation, and non-compliance fines can reach 15 million euros. The 2026 CRA Awareness and Readiness Report from LF Research and @openssf.org breaks down what needs to change. https://bit.ly/3PMux7C

Most organizations are not hiring their way out of AI skills gaps. They are training through them. Organizations are 3.7x more likely to upskill than hire. Cybersecurity is critically understaffed, and 61% report capability gaps in AI security. Read the full report: https://bit.ly/3SrhvNu

The EU Cyber Resilience Act is live. September enforcement is next. Most of the ecosystem is still not paying attention. @openssf.org CTO Christopher Robinson provides his take on the findings from the upcoming 2026 CRA Awareness and Readiness Report dropping June 9. https://bit.ly/4vtEMwr

Tokens are the fastest-growing line item in enterprise AI budgets. No neutral standard existed to manage them -- until now. The Linux Foundation announces the intent to launch the Tokenomics Foundation: open benchmarks and best practices for AI cost management. Read more: https://bit.ly/4o5AF7B

How does your organization manage its open source activities? LF Research & the TODO Group launched the 9th annual OSPO Survey with CNCF and FinOps to map how Open Source Program Offices drive AI governance, security, InnerSource, and cloud strategy. Take the survey today: https://bit.ly/4dQvi8V

The AI and automation boom is creating a growing tech skills gap. In her latest blog, LF Research SVP Hilary Carter explains why upskilling existing dev teams is the most sustainable path forward for modern tech infrastructure. Read the full analysis: https://bit.ly/3Q9qEJS

OpenMDW-1.1 is now available — and NVIDIA is adopting it across Cosmos, Isaac GR00T, Ising, and Nemotron model families. A permissive, unified legal framework purpose-built for AI models. Learn more at openmdw.ai

The @opensearch.org and LF Research are gathering enterprise insights on search and observability platforms, with results published openly for the community. If your organization uses #OpenSearch or similar search, your input helps shape what gets built next. Take the survey: https://bit.ly/4dUAyXH

DNS has powered the internet for decades, and now it's powering AI agents. Today, the Linux Foundation welcomes the DNS-AID project to create a vendor-neutral framework for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI agents and MCP servers. Learn more: bit.ly/4f6fnnO

AI adoption is growing, but the talent gap remains. The 2026 report from The Linux Foundation, LF Education, and KodeKloud found 90% of organizations struggle to find skilled talent, especially in AI, cloud, Linux, cybersecurity, Kubernetes, and DevOps. Read the full report: https://bit.ly/4dtem6H

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At #OSSummit NA, Sean Dague, Chief Services Architect at IBM Quantum, shared how that early experiment quickly drew 20,000+ users and ultimately led to Qiskit, the open-source quantum toolkit now powering 5,000+ research papers and 7,000+ projects. https://bit.ly/4uj1Gql

Upskilling existing staff outperforms hiring new talent across cost, retention, and quality. Your current team is the key to unlocking 3-7.9x better business advantages—which is why 57% of organizations are prioritizing upskilling to close talent gaps. Read the report: https://bit.ly/49Dhgok

AI agents naturally gravitate toward open source because that is how LLMs were trained. At the same time, AI lowers the barrier to entry, making it easier for anyone to contribute. The result is more developers in the ecosystem, not fewer. https://bit.ly/43i8BUH