governance

Overnight lobbying by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and David Sacks persuaded President Trump to cancel a planned executive order that would have let federal agencies preview frontier AI models up to 90 days before release.

Tim Abbott is donating Kandra Labs to a newly created Zulip Foundation and joining Anthropic, adopting a Mozilla-style nonprofit governance model for the open-source team chat project.

Microsoft's enterprise agent control plane went GA on May 1, 2026, adding local Windows agent discovery, Windows 365 for Agents, and public-preview registry sync to AWS Bedrock and Google Gemini Enterprise.

PEP 772 was accepted on April 16, 2026, establishing an elected five-member Python Packaging Council with authority over standards covering pip, setuptools, and PyPI.

TDF removed 30+ Collabora staff from membership—including 7 of the project's top 10 core committers—citing a legal dispute clause in newly adopted bylaws, prompting Collabora to announce a separate development track.

A community revolt over commit drought, staff cuts, and opaque development is forcing Oracle to rethink its stewardship of the world's most deployed open source database.