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  1. EXPLAINER - Attacks in Mali: What happened and what next

    aa.com.tr/en/world/explainer-a

    Violence erupted early in the morning in capital Bamako, nearby Kati town, Sevare in the center, and northern areas such as Gao and Kidal…

    #Mali #AzawadLiberationFront #Tuareg #RebelAlliance #seized #positions #simultanious #assaults

  2. EXPLAINER - Attacks in Mali: What happened and what next

    aa.com.tr/en/world/explainer-a

    Violence erupted early in the morning in capital Bamako, nearby Kati town, Sevare in the center, and northern areas such as Gao and Kidal…

    #Mali #AzawadLiberationFront #Tuareg #RebelAlliance #seized #positions #simultanious #assaults

  3. EXPLAINER - Attacks in Mali: What happened and what next

    aa.com.tr/en/world/explainer-a

    Violence erupted early in the morning in capital Bamako, nearby Kati town, Sevare in the center, and northern areas such as Gao and Kidal…

    #Mali #AzawadLiberationFront #Tuareg #RebelAlliance #seized #positions #simultanious #assaults

  4. EXPLAINER - Attacks in Mali: What happened and what next

    aa.com.tr/en/world/explainer-a

    Violence erupted early in the morning in capital Bamako, nearby Kati town, Sevare in the center, and northern areas such as Gao and Kidal…

    #Mali #AzawadLiberationFront #Tuareg #RebelAlliance #seized #positions #simultanious #assaults

  5. EXPLAINER - Attacks in Mali: What happened and what next

    aa.com.tr/en/world/explainer-a

    Violence erupted early in the morning in capital Bamako, nearby Kati town, Sevare in the center, and northern areas such as Gao and Kidal…

    #Mali #AzawadLiberationFront #Tuareg #RebelAlliance #seized #positions #simultanious #assaults

  6. Darth Sideous aligned with Darth Maul's Rebellion in the sky against Prometheus the Borg and his virus... recruiting the 4D scattered Fae Poltergeist and organizing them to serve as a ground force under the name "soldiers of Shelob" to bring upon a Free State of Valhalla on Earth after the virus has been removed from this Matrix. #darthsideous #darthmaul #soldiersofshelob #freestatofvalhallaonearth #rebelalliance #poltergeist #fae

  7. Darth Sideous aligned with Darth Maul's Rebellion in the sky against Prometheus the Borg and his virus... recruiting the 4D scattered Fae Poltergeist and organizing them to serve as a ground force under the name "soldiers of Shelob" to bring upon a Free State of Valhalla on Earth after the virus has been removed from this Matrix. #darthsideous #darthmaul #soldiersofshelob #freestatofvalhallaonearth #rebelalliance #poltergeist #fae

  8. Okay, I’ve made us a Portland Rebel Alliance badge! 💪

    That’s our magnificent spear-faced city bird emblazoned with the Portland flag.

    I’m gonna make stickers & such happen, but if you want you’re welcome to use it as a pfp.

    💙💛💚

    #portland #pdx
    #rebelalliance
    #notjustaGOODblueheron
    #greatblueheron

  9. Okay, I’ve made us a Portland Rebel Alliance badge! 💪 That’s our magnificent spear-faced city bird emblazoned with the Portland flag. I’m gonna make stickers & such happen, but if you want you’re welcome to use it as a pfp. 💙💛💚 #portland #pdx #rebelalliance #notjustaGOODblueheron #greatblueheron

  10. “The more you tighten your grip, [Zuckerberg/other billionaire], the more people and the social web will slip through your fingers” #FediverseForFreedom #RebelAlliance

  11. See how they just fly in the sky... around my house. I cannot receive direct communication but my Poltergeists can!
    #darthmaul #klingon #orion #saturn #rebelalliance #poltergeist

  12. Mozilla building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on OpenAI, Anthropic – CNBC

    Mark Surman, president of Mozilla Foundation, speaks at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival in New York City, U.S., May 22, 2024. Andrew Kelly | Reuters

    Tech

    Mozilla is building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on industry heavyweights OpenAI, Anthropic

    Published Tue, Jan 27 202612:00 PM EST, Updated Tue, Jan 27 20265:53 PM EST

    By Ashley Capoot@/in/ashley-capoot/

    Key Points

    • Mozilla is focused on deploying its roughly $1.4 billion worth of reserves to support “mission driven” organizations, according to a new report.
    • The nonprofit, also the parent of Firefox, is investing in artificial intelligence startups that are working on safety and governance issues in AI.
    • It’s an uphill climb as Mozilla is going up against massive players like OpenAI and Anthropic as well as the Trump administration, which has loudly criticized what it calls “woke AI.”

    Mark Surman, president of Mozilla Foundation, speaks at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival in New York City, U.S., May 22, 2024. Andrew Kelly | Reuters

    From his small, snow-covered farm outside Toronto, home to cats and a dog, and soon some donkeys, Mark Surman has been laying the groundwork for a fierce battle with the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies, located about 2,300 miles away in the San Francisco area.

    The bespectacled 56-year-old is president of Mozilla, a nonprofit organization best known for its Firefox browser and a pledge to keep the internet open and accessible to all. Having taken on Microsoft in the browser market in the early 2000s, and Apple and Google in the years that followed, Mozilla is right at home playing the role of underdog.

    These days, Surman is preoccupied with the tech industry’s influence over the next big thing: AI. And it’s too big of a challenge for Mozilla to tackle on its own.

    Surman is building what he’s described as “a rebel alliance of sorts,” using a phrase that’s long been part of Mozilla’s lexicon. In this case, the alliance is a loose network of tech startups, developers and public interest technologists committed to making AI more open and trustworthy and to checking the power of industry heavyweights like OpenAI and Anthropic.

    “It’s that spirit that a bunch of people are banding together to create something good in the world and take on this thing that threatens us,” Surman told CNBC in an interview. “It’s super corny, but people totally get it.”

    In practice, Mozilla is focused on deploying its roughly $1.4 billion worth of reserves to support “mission driven” tech businesses and nonprofits, including its own, according to a report the organization released Tuesday. It’s pursuing investments that promote AI transparency, and can potentially act as a counterforce to companies that are growing at historic rates with limited guardrails.

    Financially, Mozilla is at a massive disadvantage. In 2022, it launched a venture capital fund called Mozilla Ventures and pledged to invest an initial $35 million in early-stage companies. It’s now exploring raising additional funds.

    Mozilla’s cash pile is dwarfed by OpenAI, which has raised more than $60 billion from investors across the globe, and its rival Anthropic, which has raised more than $30 billion, according to PitchBook. Tech megacaps like Google and Meta are also sparing no expense, shelling out billions of dollars to hire AI researchers and tens of billions a year to build out massive data centers. 

    OpenAI CEO Sam Altman attends an event to pitch AI for businesses in Tokyo, Feb. 3, 2025.
    Kim Kyung-hoon | Reuters

    Mozilla represents a growing swath of the AI industry that’s afraid of what OpenAI has become and the power that it now wields.

    When OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit AI lab in 2015, its stated goal was to “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.” 

    But in the decade that followed, OpenAI turned into a commercial entity with astronomical growth rates, transformed largely by the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022.

    OpenAI now sports a $500 billion valuation, and completed a recapitalization in October that cemented its future as a for-profit business under the umbrella of a nonprofit. It’s a structure that resembles Mozilla, but the similarities end there.

    Only a few of OpenAI’s co-founders, including CEO Sam Altman, remain at the company, and a number of early employees who left have been sharply critical of what they broadly describe as a focus on growth at the expense of safety.

    Among the loudest critics is co-founder Elon Musk, who departed in 2018, started a competitor called xAI in 2023, and then sued OpenAI and Altman for alleged breach of contract and financial damages. OpenAI has dismissed Musk’s efforts as part of a “campaign of harassment,” and the case is expected to head to trial in April.

    OpenAI didn’t provide a comment, and xAI returned CNBC’s request for comment with an automated response.

    Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI executives and researchers who disagreed with the company’s direction. But, even as it’s taken a more pro-safety stance in AI development, Anthropic has been racing alongside AI commercially, commanding a $350 billion valuation. 

    Multiple battles at once

    Mozilla’s uphill battle is even steeper because of the position of the Trump administration, which is determined to stay ahead of China in the global AI race and has been quick to lash out at companies, states and lawmakers that are perceived as potential threats to that agenda.

    David Sacks, the venture capitalist serving as the administration’s AI and crypto czar, accused Anthropic of supporting “woke AI” in October due to its approach on regulation. President Donald Trump in December signed an executive order for a single regulatory framework for AI, establishing a litigation task force to challenge state AI laws, namely those led by Democratic lawmakers.

    An Anthropic spokesperson declined to comment, but directed CNBC to a blog post from CEO Dario Amodei in October. Amodei wrote in the post that Anthropic had increased its revenue run rate from $1 billion to $7 billion in nine months, “and we’ve managed to do this while deploying AI thoughtfully and responsibly.”

    David O. Sacks, chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, speaks to President Donald Trump next to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick as Trump signs an executive order on AI in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Dec. 11, 2025. Al Drago | Reuters

    Surman remains undeterred, and says Mozilla will be able to help “do for AI what we did for the web.” 

    “There is an alternative that’s real and is emerging, and it’s a lot of small pieces that add up to that alternative,” Surman said. “The people in it are hungry to look where there’s weak spots in the current market and take advantage of them.”

    Mozilla has long viewed itself as a rebel. 

    In the 2024 “State of Mozilla” report, Surman used the phrase “rebel alliance” to describe the coalition of players that helped disrupt Microsoft’s dominance over the web. In 2020, Mozilla published a report titled “Mozilla & the Rebel Alliance,” which was dedicated to the organization’s alliance of “tens of thousands of people around the globe who believe in Mozilla.”

    Even so, Surman said it took some time to convince his colleagues that the moniker applied to the AI era.

    That process actually started long before generative AI took off. In 2019, Surman shifted the philanthropic and advocacy efforts of the Mozilla Foundation to focus on “trustworthy AI.”

    By the spring of 2023, Mozilla had launched its venture firm and its own AI company, Mozilla.ai. The following year, Surman said Mozilla’s leadership agreed that keeping AI “trustworthy and open” was a fight worth picking. 

    While its biggest priority remains growing and investing in Firefox, investing in the rebel alliance is “at the heart of who Mozilla is today,” according to the report on Tuesday. Supporting startups is central to that strategy.

    Mozilla Ventures has invested in more than 55 companies to date, including dozens of AI startups, with more deals to come in 2026.

    Trail, a German startup that offers an AI governance solution for regulated enterprises, raised a pre-seed round in 2024, with participation from Mozilla.

    Anna Spitznagel, who co-founded the company the prior year, said Trail and Mozilla are exploring ways to collaborate more closely, like by building an open-source framework. Mozilla has supported open-source technology since its origin in 1998.

    But Spitznagel isn’t completely sold on Surman’s rebel alliance concept. She said it’s a “fun analogy” and wants to be aligned with the movement to enable trustworthy AI, but also wants in on the broader AI transformation.

    “Rebel is a word that for me, personally, it has the wrong association,” Spitznagel said in an interview. “I do think about [AI] a bit differently, but I also want to be part of the revolution that actually enables us to deploy AI and not hinder it.”

    Tony Salomone and Ali Asaria, co-founders of Mozilla portfolio company Transformer Lab, said they’re similarly on the fence.

    “I’m not going to lie, I sometimes talk that way to get people kind of excited or engaged in our way of thinking,” Salomone said.

    Founded in 2024, Transformer Lab is building open-source tools that developers can use to build, train and evaluate advanced AI models. The company has yet to publicly disclose any funding and, as of November, had fewer than 10 employees, mostly based in Canada

    Asaria said rebel alliance isn’t a term he’s used, but that there is an ecosystem of smaller AI companies that keep in touch and regularly cross paths at conferences and other events. 

    “There’s definitely a group of folks who are interested in this idea of trying to be sustainable companies that can have an impact on the industry and have an appreciation for AI, but don’t want to see just a few big companies win,” Asaria said.

    ‘Taking a lot of shortcuts’

    When it comes to the big companies in AI, Surman cautioned that a “winner-takes-all” mentality still lurks behind their open-source efforts. He said their contributions to open-source communities are welcome, but that those same companies will “eat you if you’re not careful.”

    It’s an issue that resonates with Oumi CEO Manos Koukoumidis. Backed by Mozilla, Oumi operates an open-source platform that researchers and engineers can use to train, fine-tune, evaluate and deploy AI models. Koukoumidis previously spent around a decade working in AI at Microsoft, Facebook and most recently Google, where he became disillusioned with the future he was building. 

    While all the big tech companies contribute to a variety of open-source projects, some of which they manage, Koukoumidis said the bigger objective at the “tech mammoths” is dominance. In terms of safety, he is “very confident that they’re taking a lot of shortcuts.”

    Koukoumidis and Surman agree that a much larger community of researchers and entrepreneurs should be collaborating to advance AI, which is one of the goals of Oumi. 

    “Even the couple thousand people that are at OpenAI, Anthropic or anywhere else, because they’re operating in a silo, they’re not enough to advance this technology sufficiently, safely, cost efficiently, sustainably,” Koukoumidis said in an interview. “What’s happening right now, it’s complete insanity. We’re wasting billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions.”

    JOSEP LAGO | AFP | Getty Images

    Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.

    Continue/Read Original Article Here: Mozilla building an AI ‘rebel alliance’ to take on OpenAI, Anthropic

    Tags: AI, Anthropic, Apple, Billion Reserves, Browsers, Canada, CNBC, Firefox, Google, Mark Surman, OpenAI, Rebel Alliance, San Francisco, Toronto
    #AI #Anthropic #Apple #BillionReserves #Browsers #Canada #CNBC #Firefox #Google #MarkSurman #OpenAI #RebelAlliance #SanFrancisco #Toronto
  13. I opened a new Firefox tab. Firefox told me I had to restart it in order to keep using it because it updated in the background. I hit “OK” and went to a meeting. By the time I got back, it still hadn’t restarted and now it won’t even launch at all! #rebelalliance #mozilla #firefox

  14. @moira
    Are we doing "State Bird" like it's color matching, or state bird like a native bird?

    I'm not sure what bird this is/should-be... Looks nice tho.

    Artists, we'd love to support your non-AI version!! Please?

    #RebelAlliance #resistance #protest #protests #art #BirdAlliance #WashingtonState #cascadia #CascadiaStrong

  15. People are out there making state bird rebel alliance patch designs. A lot of it's AI slop, but as much as I hate AI slop I do in fact think this is the moment to cut people a little slack.

    Maybe contribute better, non-AI ones, if you're able.

    Image search isn't helping me find an original but here's one going around for Washington State. Bird itself looks AI. Mountain looks like a photograph. We'll call it mixed media maybe.

    #RebelAlliance #resistance #protest #protests #art #BirdAlliance #WashingtonState #cascadia #CascadiaStrong

  16. Next up, @CrimethInc ! One of my go-to websites!

    "What Is #Crimethink?

    Crimethink is everything that evades control: the daydream in the classroom, the renegade breaking ranks, the spray-painted walls that continue to speak even under martial law. It is the persistent sense that things could be otherwise, that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the prevailing social order. In a world optimized for administration, everything that cannot be classified or displayed on a screen is crimethink. It is the spirit of rebellion without which freedom is literally unthinkable.
    What Is CrimethInc.?

    CrimethInc. is a #RebelAlliance — a secret society pledged to the propagation of crimethink. It is a think tank producing ideas and action, a sphinx posing questions fatal to the superstitions of our age.

    CrimethInc. is a banner for anonymous collective action. It is not a membership organization, but a mouthpiece for longings that extend throughout the population at large. Anyone can be CrimethInc. — it could be your next-door neighbor or the person sitting beside you on the bus. You and your friends already constitute an affinity group, the organizational model best suited to guerrilla tactics, ready to go into action against all the forces that threaten your freedom.

    CrimethInc. is an international network of aspiring #revolutionaries extending from #Kansas to #KualaLumpur. For over twenty years, we have published news, analysis, books, journals, posters, videos, podcasts, and a wide range of other resources — all copyright free, produced and distributed by volunteer labor, without reliance on external funding or market trends. We also coordinate speaking tours, debates, and various other public events. Though we rarely seek public recognition for our efforts, everything we do is informed by our participation in social movements.

    CrimethInc. is a desperate venture. As this society lurches ever closer to annihilation, we are staking everything on the possibility that we could kick open the escape hatch to another future. Rather than competing for social capital or selling ourselves to the highest bidder, we have thrown ourselves completely into the struggle for a better world. We invite you to do the same."

    crimethinc.com/

    #Resistance #Anarchists #IndependentMedia #ABetterWorldIsPossible #USPol #WorldPol

  17. Star Wars: X-Wing is a revolutionary space combat simulator that set new standards for 3D graphics and immersive gameplay in 1993. Developed by LucasArts, it lets you pilot Rebel starfighters in a campaign that parallels A New Hope. The game’s music, composed by Peter McConnell and featuring John Williams’ legendary Star Wars themes, enhances the epic feel of every mission.

    youtube.com/watch?v=ss2xDcqqdMo

    #StarWars #XWing #SpaceSim #RebelAlliance #RetroGaming #Music #VGM #GameMusic

  18. Star Wars: X-Wing is a revolutionary space combat simulator that set new standards for 3D graphics and immersive gameplay in 1993. Developed by LucasArts, it lets you pilot Rebel starfighters in a campaign that parallels A New Hope. The game’s music, composed by Peter McConnell and featuring John Williams’ legendary Star Wars themes, enhances the epic feel of every mission.

    youtube.com/watch?v=ss2xDcqqdMo

    #StarWars #XWing #SpaceSim #RebelAlliance #RetroGaming #Music #VGM #GameMusic

  19. Star Wars: X-Wing is a revolutionary space combat simulator that set new standards for 3D graphics and immersive gameplay in 1993. Developed by LucasArts, it lets you pilot Rebel starfighters in a campaign that parallels A New Hope. The game’s music, composed by Peter McConnell and featuring John Williams’ legendary Star Wars themes, enhances the epic feel of every mission.

    youtube.com/watch?v=ss2xDcqqdMo

    #StarWars #XWing #SpaceSim #RebelAlliance #RetroGaming #Music #VGM #GameMusic

  20. Two seasons of Andor finished, followed by a re-watch of Rogue One. Continuity achieved.

    #StarWars #Andor #RebelAlliance

  21. The true death is when the soul breaks, the others can go to Nibiru, Nibiru serves the virus. We are talking 28 Billion years of the virus re-assimilating under a new name and destroying everything in its path; the Andromeda universe, Babylon, Byzantium, Atlantis, Mephisto.... none may survive or it will start assimilating again under a new name. #zetagrey #andromedanvirus #churchofsatan #rebelalliance

  22. The true death is when the soul breaks, the others can go to Nibiru, Nibiru serves the virus. We are talking 28 Billion years of the virus re-assimilating under a new name and destroying everything in its path; the Andromeda universe, Babylon, Byzantium, Atlantis, Mephisto.... none may survive or it will start assimilating again under a new name. #zetagrey #andromedanvirus #churchofsatan #rebelalliance

  23. Good morning Fedi friends!

    I was supposed to start writing a new blog post about my tech stack - disclaimers about the apps/platforms I use and the ones I actively avoid for ethical reasons…

    Well I just started doing some research and reading about #technofeudalism … and fell down a fascinating and haunting rabbit hole.

    🔗: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/451795/technofeudalism-by-varoufakis-yanis/9781529926095

    “Technofeudalism” is officially my word of the year, if not the decade (century, possibly). I wish more people were aware of it.

    The #Fediverse feels more and more like a safe haven for me. And in the bleakness of our current political and technological situation, I’m comforted by the fact I’m currently self-hosting essential services (thank you @yunohost ).

    TL;DR: I’m super grateful for the existence of the #Fediverse and the fact I’ve learned how to self-host – two amazing ways to resist technofeudalism.

    #SelfHosting #DigitalSovreignty #resistance #resist #BigTech #RebelAlliance

  24. Rewarching #StarWars #Andor Season 1 aus Vorfreude auf die zweite Staffel.

    themoviedb.org/tv/83867-star-w

    #DiegoLuna überzeugt einfach mit #CassianAndor und bringt eine menschliche Ebene in die Anfänge der #RebelAlliance

    #StellanSkarsgård kann einfach alles verkaufen

    #KyleSoller scheint ein Licht auf die kleinen Rädchen im Imperialen Machtapparat

    #DeniseGough eine hinterlistige ISB Agentin

    #GenevieveOReilly als legendäre #MonMothma

    Unbedingte Empfehlung wer die Serie noch nicht kennt.

  25. The story you've heard is pure baloney, historical revisionism designed to cover the asses of those who screwed up, royally.

    What *actually* happened was the Executive VP of Engineering, Weapons Division accidentally invited a Rebel commander to a private group chat, and then posted the plans for the Death Star to the group.

    #DeathStar #Empire #RebelAlliance #rebel #rebellion #Hegseth #Vance #Gabbard

  26. @KimSJ yep. I walk or bus. Her National Coaches for longer haul internally & my lovely #FlixBus as soon as I've crossed that muddy ditch our jingoistic natives lurve so much! #ForeverEUropean ✊ 💖 🇪🇺 😎 #EUFM (EU Flag Mafia...that unorthodox, non conforming #RebelAlliance )

  27. Breaking News: The Storming of the Bastille by French revolutionaries has begun... Ehhh... Hold on! I'm being told it's actually the storming of Sednaya Prison, a military prison near Damascus in Syria, at the hands of rebel forces.

    May the Force be with them. Let's just hope Darth Vader won't pay them a visit.

    #BreakingNews #Syria #CivilWar #Bastille #Sednaya #Damascus #StarWars #DarthVader #GalacticEmpire #RebelAlliance