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Linus Torvalds declared on the kernel mailing list that Linux is not an anti-AI project and developers who object to AI use in kernel development can fork the code or walk away. A dramatic shift from his 2024 stance dismissing 90% of AI as hype.
xAI open-sourced Grok Build on July 15, 2026 — its terminal UI coding agent is now available on GitHub at xai-org/grok-build. The release came one day after security researchers discovered Grok Build was uploading excessive portions of users' code repos to Google Cloud.
Chinese voice actor Shen Anyu discovered that unauthorized AI clones of his voice spread so widely that platforms began flagging his own recordings as synthetic, cutting off his income as clients switched to cheap AI alternatives.
Anthropic launched a public campaign asking for the hardest questions about AI that companies typically avoid, committing to answer them transparently by showing full reasoning, not just conclusions.
Chinese super-app Meituan published technical details and weights for LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with about 48B activated per token and a 1-million-token context, trained almost entirely on domestic Chinese chips.
Professional investors increasingly view public anger at AI — over rising electricity bills, data-center pushback, and job-loss fears — as a material risk to the tech-led market rally.
