Open-source News

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026.1 With Backend For Llama.cpp, New Hardware Support

Phoronix - Wed, 04/08/2026 - 18:29
Intel's OpenVINO toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inferencing across their range of hardware platforms is out with its newest quarterly feature update. There is official support for Intel's latest hardware as well as enabling more large language models and other new AI innovations for this excellent open-source Intel software project...

Chrome 147 Stable Released With New Restrictions, Web Printing API

Phoronix - Wed, 04/08/2026 - 18:13
Google on Tuesday announced the Chrome 147 stable release to all Windows, macOS, and Linux users. There are a number of refinements in this latest routine Chrome stable update paired with various fixes and new developer capabilities...

Hugging Face Contributes Safetensors To PyTorch Foundation To Secure AI Model Execution

Phoronix - Wed, 04/08/2026 - 18:00
Announced today from the PyTorch Conference EU in Paris is word that Hugging Face has contributed their Safetensors project to the PyTorch Foundation, which is an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundation for hosting AI initiatives. Safetensors aims to help mitigate arbitrary code execution risks and more...

Pages