A major tech company recently brought on some A-listers to sell us on surveillance tech being ✨aspirational ✨ But underneath the glossy campaign images are the same old questions about privacy, consent, power, and ultimately, who does this tech actually serve? So, if you're seeing past the surveillance-tech sales pitch, we suggest digging into Kari Paul 's recent #NothingPersonal piece where she dives into something at the opposite end of this frame: the rise of anti-surveillance fashion. https://bit.ly/3R6peQW
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A lot of companies say they’re “mission-driven.” Our unique corporate structure guarantees that every decision we make upholds our mission: to ensure the internet remains open and accessible. Beholden to neither shareholders nor investors, Mozilla Corporation is wholly owned by the not-for-profit Mozilla Foundation. Along with our communities of 20,000+ contributors and collaborators, Mozilla Corporation’s staff designs, builds, and distributes software that allows people to enjoy the internet on their own terms. Our flagship product — the Firefox browser — has expanded into a family of products that protects users and alerts them of risks, safeguards passwords and provides a secure VPN (with more to come). By maintaining a safe, open internet we're helping humanity, while also helping the individual humans employed here to reach their personal and professional goals. With a relatively small team serving hundreds of millions of people, a culture of exploration, and a commitment to mentorship, opportunities abound to learn and grow at Mozilla.
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We've been sold a single story about the future of good-tech: that it moves fast, decides alone, and that human judgment is the friction slowing everything down. Mozilla Foundation's Democracy x AI Incubator was built around the opposite belief. Today we're introducing the ten project teams who are building AI that deliberates, listens, and keeps people at the center of democratic life. They're working across four continents, in communities ranging from a shrinking village in rural Japan to diaspora networks fighting censorship across borders. Meet the projects that are showing us what's possible when we choose to imagine something different ⚡ https://bit.ly/4gmFDei Fundación Civio David Cabo Metagov Liz Barry Shutaro Aoyama Ciudadanía Inteligente Colombina Schaeffer Ana Gagua CORRECTIV Viera Zuborova Dean Issacharoff Amplified Access Aziz Tworo WeSolve Foundation Kenneth Isaiah Ibasco Abante Convoca
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Open source thrives because of the people behind it. We're excited to join Hugging Face, Grafana, SUSE, ZML, >commit, and RAISE to bring together developers, CTOs, founders, and maintainers for a special Open Source Breakfast during Day 2 of the RAISE Summit in Paris. This morning is about connecting the people building the technologies that power today's internet and AI ecosystem. Expect live demos, open conversations, and direct access to the engineers and technical leaders shaping the future of open source. Whether you're maintaining a project used by millions or just beginning your open-source journey, we'd love to see you there. https://lnkd.in/eQKdSVMa
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The next version of the internet is being decided by a handful of boardrooms. Mozilla has spent 25 years making sure that doesn't happen unchallenged. Now, the organization that helped shape the open web is bringing that same fight to AI, committing $1.4B to proving that open, trustworthy AI is not only possible, but competitive. Through Mozilla Ventures, they have backed over 55 companies to date, with further investments planned through 2026, targeting the gaps where proprietary models fall short. Their strategy is clear: make open-source AI easier to build with than closed systems, reshape the economics of data through the Mozilla Data Collective, and embed user-controlled AI directly into Firefox, where more than a billion people browse the web. At RAISE Summit 2026, Mozilla joins the leaders shaping the future of open AI infrastructure, products, and governance. Mark Surman, President at Mozilla, joins the RAISE Stage for a keynote on “The AI Gold Rush: Models Are Shovels, Data Is the Gold.” 💡 If AI becomes the next operating layer of the internet, who gets to control it?
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Silicon Valley keeps trying to sell us on the idea that a better future is one that moves faster and needs less of us in it. You can see it in the tech we use, the systems that shape how we work, and increasingly, in the decisions that affect how we govern our lives together. Thing is, democracy isn't meant to be optimized, and we should all get to decide what technologies are truly worthy of our time, money and data. Stay tuned as Mozilla Foundation releases info about its newest Incubator cohort, coming 🔜 and if you're keen to dig into this topic, watch our recent AI x Democracy panel discussion here https://bit.ly/4ayTD0T Nabiha Syed
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AMA alert! Join our CTO Raffi Krikorian on Reddit, Inc. next Tuesday for a conversation about the State of Open Source AI, and our survey of nearly 1000 open source developers. More here: https://lnkd.in/eXRnXY9w
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The tech world takes itself incredibly seriously. We’ve teamed up with @baratunde.com and @theonion.com for a new column that looks at life with machines through a satirical lens. Beacause if we don’t laugh at the current state of technology, we’ll probably cry. https://bit.ly/44Kg7sg
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Open source AI is the largest permissionless builder movement in software history, with 2.5 million open models, 13 million builders, and a third of the Fortune 500 among them. We believe the path forward is competition and interoperability. It’s many models, standard connections, and the freedom to leave. This is the same fight we've been in for the open web. Mozilla exists because one company once tried to own the web’s front door, and an open community made sure it never would. This is not a new fight; it is the sequel. In the initial battle, the prize was the front door. Now, the real contest has moved off the model and onto the layer above them: the agentic harness, the infrastructure that decides what AI can access, remember, and do. Whoever shapes that layer shapes the future. The moment is here: open source AI has reached parity on the work most teams actually do. From coding and instruction-following, to general knowledge and cost savings. We bet on open the first time. Open won. We like our odds. Our first State of Open Source AI Report drops July 14. We’re sharing where open source AI is winning, some numbers that surprised even us, and where open source is exposed.
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More Democracy x AI goodness happening this Thursday with Claudia Chwalisz, DemocracyNext and Mozilla Foundation's Lisa Gutermuth 👏 P.S. watch this space as we announce our AI x Democracy Incubator cohort later this week 👀
Democracy is under strain, and one of the most promising responses to that strain is the growing global movement around deliberative assemblies: citizens' assemblies, citizens' juries, and related forums that bring randomly selected, broadly representative groups of people together to weigh evidence, listen to one another, and make shared decisions on complex public issues. However, these processes are also resource-intensive, slow, and hard to scale, and have thus become a site of intense interest for AI integration. The pitch from many technologists, practitioners, and funders is consistent: AI can make deliberation cheaper, faster, more accessible, and more scalable. In our new DemocracyNext paper on Deliberative Muscles & AI with Sammy McKinney, Jorim Theuns, and Eugene Yi, we argue that AI, when designed with care, can indeed play a powerful role in strengthening deliberation. But the very efficiencies that make AI attractive also risk undermining what deliberation is for in the first place. Our starting point is that deliberative assemblies are not decision-making machines; if we automate too much, we may end up with smoother processes that hollow out the productive friction that makes them valuable, while simultaneously reducing people's ability to participate in democratic life. We make three contributions: First, we argue that one of the most important and most overlooked virtues of deliberative assemblies is that they build deliberative muscles. Second, we offer a typology of seven deliberative muscles: self-reflection, reasoning, dialogue, vulnerability, collaboration, imagination, and facilitation. For each muscle, they map AI uses. Context matters throughout: the same tool can strengthen a muscle in one setting and substitute for it in another. Third, we argue that the exercise of these seven muscles, sustained across many people and many processes over time, is what produces the societal capacity that resilient democratic systems require. This has implications for civic infrastructure: for the training, standards, and ecosystem-building bodies that sustain deliberative practice; for how we think about AI ownership, provenance, and dependency; and for the case for a civic AI future in which communities are not merely end-users of DelibTech but central to the conditions that make it work at all. The central design question for anyone building, commissioning, or funding deliberative technology is therefore not whether AI produces a recommendation faster, but whether it leaves participants, facilitators, and the wider institutional ecosystem more capable at the end of the process than at the start. Join us for the launch this Thursday, together with respondents Lisa Gutermuth (Mozilla Foundation), Mauricio Mejia (Advisor on democratic change), and Maggie Hughes (CEO and Co-founder, Convoca), for this launch event to discuss the paper and its implications for different sectors. The event will be moderated by Andrew Sorota (Office of Eric Schmidt).
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A great reminder that good questions don't always have clean answers, and disagreement isn't a problem to fix ft Woody Hartzog and Angela Oduor Lungati ⚡ In a few days, Mozilla Foundation will announce the ten projects we're funding as part of our first AI x Democracy cohort 🎉 Democracy is messy by design, and we think AI can be built in a way that works with that,not against it. Dig into our recent AI x Democracy discussion 🖇️ and drop your thoughts on the prompt in the comments below⤵️ https://bit.ly/4ayTD0T