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Today in Privacy & AI Tooling - introducing a nifty new tool to examine where data goes in open-source apps on πŸ€—

HF Spaces have tons (100Ks!) of cool demos leveraging or examining AI systems - and because most of them are OSS we can see exactly how they handle user data πŸ“šπŸ”

That requires actually reading the code though, which isn't always easy or quick! Good news: code LMs have gotten pretty good at automatic review, so we can offload some of the work - here I'm using Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-32B-Instruct to generate reports and it works pretty OK πŸ™Œ

The app works in three stages:
1. Download all code files
2. Use the Code LM to generate a detailed report pointing to code where data is transferred/(AI-)processed (screen 1)
3. Summarize the app's main functionality and data journeys (screen 2)
4. Build a Privacy TLDR with those inputs

It comes with a bunch of pre-reviewed apps/Spaces, great to see how many process data locally or through (private) HF endpoints πŸ€—

Note that this is a POC, lots of exciting work to do to make it more robust, so:
- try it: yjernite/space-privacy
- reach out to collab: yjernite/space-privacy
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Just tested something this morning that feels kind of game-changing for how we publish, discover, and consume news with AI: connecting Claude directly to the New York Times through MCP.

Picture this: You ask Claude about a topic, and it instantly pulls verified and trusted NYT content β€” no more guessing if the info is accurate.

The cool part? Publishers stay in control of what they share via API, and users get fast, reliable access through the AI tools they already use. Instead of scraping random stuff off the web, we get a future where publishers actively shape how their journalism shows up in AI.

It’s still a bit technical to set up right now, but this could get super simple soon β€” like installing apps on your phone, but for your chatbot. And you keep the brand connection, too.

Not saying it solves everything, but it’s definitely a new way to distribute content β€” and maybe even find some fresh value in the middle of this whole news + AI shakeup. Early movers will have a head start.

Curious what folks think β€” could MCPs be a real opportunity for journalism?
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Cohere on Hugging Face Inference Providers πŸ”₯

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Hugging Face to sell open-source robots thanks to Pollen Robotics acquisition πŸ€–

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sooo many open AI releases past week, let's summarize! πŸ€—
merve/april-11-releases-67fcd78be33d241c0977b9d2

multimodal
> Moonshot AI released Kimi VL Thinking, first working open-source multimodal reasoning model and Kimi VL Instruct, both 16B MoEs with 3B active params (OS)
> InternVL3 released based on Qwen2.5VL, 7 ckpts with various sizes (1B to 78B)

LLMs
> NVIDIA released Llama-3_1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B-v1 an LLM built on Llama 405B for reasoning, chat and tool use
> Agentica released DeepCoder-14B-Preview, fine-tuned version of DeepSeek-R1-Distilled-Qwen-14B on problem-test pairs, along with the compiled dataset
> Zyphra/ZR1-1.5B is a new small reasoning LLM built on R1-Distill-1.5B (OS)
> Skywork-OR1-32B-Preview is a new reasoning model by Skywork

Image Generation
> HiDream releases three new models, HiDream I1 Dev, I1 Full, and I1 fast for image generation (OS)

*OS ones have Apache 2.0 or MIT licenses
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Want AI that truly understands your country's culture? Public institutions are sitting on the next AI revolution - and here's the practical guide to unlock it.

I've had fascinating conversations recently about sovereign AI, with people trying to solve this recurring question: "How do we build AI that truly understands our culture?"

This guide by @evijit and @yjernite brings lots of insights about this question. It's not just about throwing data at models. It's about partnering cultural expertise with tech infrastructure in ways we're just starting to figure out.

An example? The National Library of Norway already has 150+ AI models on Hugging Face. They're not just digitizing books - they're building AI that thinks in Norwegian, understands Norwegian values, and serves Norwegian citizens.

This is sovereign AI in practice: technology that understands your culture, values, and languages.

Especially loved the practical examples on how to do this:
- Real examples from museums, libraries, and government agencies
- How to convert complex documents (PDFs, PowerPoints) into ML-ready formats
- Code templates for processing public data
- Technical recipes for sharing datasets on open platforms

The stakes? Citizens' ability to leverage their collective digital intelligence.

The technology is ready. The infrastructure exists. The guide shows exactly how to use it. What's needed is your cultural expertise to shape these tools.

Check it out: https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/public-org-data-ai

P.s.: Building cool projects in a public institution? Share them in the comments for others to learn from!
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Journey to 1 Million Gradio Users!

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