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Introducing Osprey V1.0: Open Source Infrastructure for Real-Time Abuse Mitigation
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Introducing Osprey V1.0: Open Source Infrastructure for Real-Time Abuse Mitigation
Today, we’re excited to announce Osprey V1.0, an open source online safety tool designed to help platforms investigate and address their priority threats at scale, without sacrificing data privacy or...
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ROOST in Review: A Look Back on 2025
What We Shipped, What We’re Learning, and What’s NextAs 2025 winds to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on how far ROOST has come since we officially launched...
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ROOST Welcomes Inaugural Board of Directors to Guide Mission and Long-Term Governance
ROOST (Robust Open Online Safety Tools) is proud to announce the formation of its inaugural Board of Directors. This is an important piece of foundational work that will help ROOST...
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Open Collaboration in Action: Inside the Open Safeguard Hackathon
Last week, ROOST, Hugging Face, and OpenAI gathered the safety community together for a hackathon that reminded us exactly why open collaboration matters. The Open Safeguard Hackathon, held on Dec....
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Introducing ROOST's Roadmap & Inaugural Technical Design Committee
We're excited to share the formation of the initial draft of the ROOST short-term tools roadmap and our inaugural Technical Design Committee (TDC). Both represent important steps in building safety...
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Open by Design: ROOST's Approach to Safety Tool Development
This season has been one of meaningful growth for ROOST. With our partners, we’ve transitioned three previously proprietary products into open-source projects and have been steadily building a home for...
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A new milestone for open source safety infrastructure and transparency: gpt-oss-safeguard
After months of joint technical work between ROOST and OpenAI, together we are releasing one of the core components of OpenAI’s safety stack in the open—granting everyone the access to...
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ROOST Announces “Coop” and “Osprey”: Free, Open-Source Trust and Safety Infrastructure for the AI Era
Open-sourced tools put enterprise-grade content safety and threat investigation capabilities within reach of organizations of all sizesNEW YORK, NY [July 21, 2025] — ROOST, a non-profit organization dedicated to building...
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Tech Veterans Anne Bertucio and Vinay Rao Join ROOST
At ROOST, our mission to build open, scalable, and resilient technology for the public good is only possible with the right people at the helm. We’re thrilled to announce that...
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ROOST’s First 100 Days: Building & Planning
Since our February launch at the Paris AI Action Summit, the ROOST team has been working hard to create an organization that can help transform the industry's approach to trust...
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ROOST Reminds Us Why Open Source Tools Matter
At the recent Paris AI Action Summit, the launch of ROOST (Robust Online Open Safety Tools) captured the attention of trust and safety professionals. ROOST is a not-for-profit open source...
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UMass Rescue Lab and ROOST launch new partnership
UMass Amherst’s Rescue Lab is proud to announce a new partnership with ROOST, a new non-profit organization. ROOST seeks to address a critical gap in child safety and digital safety...
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Safer Internet Day 2025
Internet safety is an industry-wide issue that requires a collaborative approach. Discord is deeply committed to helping to tackle this issue, both through our own interventions and with our partners....
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ROOST: Safety Tooling needs Open Tech🐓🤗
Today marks the launch of the ROOST organization, standing for Robust Online Open Safety Tools. ROOST is set to fill a long-neglected and critical gap in infrastructure, enabling a more...
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ROOST: Open source AI safety for everyone
Robust Open Online Safety Tools, and it’s solving a clear and important problem: many startups, nonprofits, and governments are trying to use AI responsibly every day but they lack access...
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Launching ROOST: a letter of gratitude
Friends, fresh from the Paris AI Action Summit, what a joy to share that Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) is finally launched! Backed by $28 million in initial funding...
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How Becoming a Founding Partner of a New Open-Source Initiative Is Key to Our Approach to Online Safety
AI has become foundational to how we approach safety at Roblox, and we apply our models to text and voice communications, images, and 3D models and meshes.Promoting user safety, especially...
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Cinder partners with ROOST for open source safety.
Cinder was founded to create a safer internet - and that vision led us to develop the most powerful platform for managing and mitigating harmful content and behavior online. We...
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Christchurch Call partners with ROOST for open-source AI tools to tackle TVEC
The Christchurch Call is partnering with the newly formed ROOST consortium to intensify efforts to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online (TVEC).Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord formed the non-profit...
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CDT Celebrates the Launch of the Open Source Tooling Initiative ROOST as a step towards Open and Collaborative Trust & Safety Investment
Trust & Safety teams need robust tools to keep users and communities safe online, but building these tools is often costly, time consuming, and requires technical expertise that not all...
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