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Linus Torvalds and Linux kernel maintainers finalized their stance on AI-generated code after months of debate: they'll accept Copilot-style assisted contributions but reject low-quality AI-generated submissions, with human authors liable for any mistakes in code they submit.

Tom's Hardware · 1 min read Community

Step-by-step tutorial for implementing MolmoAct, a vision-language model that reasons about depth, traces visual trajectories, and predicts robotic actions from natural language. Covers environment setup, multi-view image inputs, inference, and actionable outputs for robotics pipelines.

MarkTechPost · 14 min read Tools

China processes 140 trillion tokens daily (up from 100B at 2024 start) and is coining the term 'ciyuan' to formalize token-based economics. Hong Kong IPOs hit five-year highs with Chinese AI startups MiniMax, Zhipu AI, and Biren leading a rush to build an open-source-backed 'token economy,' even as U.S. export controls on chips constrain the race.

Fortune · 8 min read Market

Simon Willison demonstrates running Google's Gemma 4 E2B multimodal model on macOS via MLX to transcribe audio files with a single uv command. He tests the 10.28 GB model on a 14-second voice memo, achieving reasonable transcription accuracy with a clear, reproducible code recipe.

Simon Willison · 2 min read Tools

OpenKedge introduces a protocol for safely governing AI agent state mutations by requiring agents to submit intent proposals that are vetted against system state and policies before execution, with cryptographic evidence chains enabling full auditability—tested on multi-agent conflicts and cloud infrastructure changes.

arXiv AI · 3 min (abstract) Research

LOM-action adds event-driven ontology simulation to LLM agents, creating an audit trail and grounding decisions in business logic instead of unrestricted knowledge space. Achieves 98.74% tool-chain F1 vs. 24–36% for frontier models, showing that architectural design beats raw scale for enterprise decision systems.

arXiv AI · 3 min (abstract) Research

Step-by-step Colab tutorial for Microsoft VibeVoice that walks through speaker-aware speech recognition, real-time TTS, and end-to-end speech-to-speech pipelines with working code examples and Gradio deployment.

MarkTechPost · 8 min read Tools

CoreWeave locked in $21B in Meta commitments through 2032, plus $3.5B in convertible notes, an upsized bond offering, and an $8.5B term loan in a single week—demonstrating how aggressively the AI infrastructure race is being financed and the market's conviction in sustained GPU demand.

Fortune · 4 min read Market