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Reddit Banned AI From Open Source — Linux Fails Its Own Test By TechPulse USA Reddit's biggest open-source forum has banned artificial intelligence — and in doing so, it has written a rule that would ban the most famous open-source project on Earth. On Saturday evening, a moderator of r/opensource, posting under the name Wolvereness, published new submission rules with a title that left no room for negotiation: "Your tokens aren't valuable: No more AI." The opening line did the rest: "If your project uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI, it's not welcome on r/opensource. AI, as it exists today, is incongruent to this Open Source community." Then came the line that gave the whole fight its slogan. "Tokens are cheap," the post explains, "and we don't care how many you spent to make your amazing project." Photo: Linus Torvalds, who created Linux and still decides what goes into the kernel. Photograph by Ævar Arnfjörð ...

AWS Parks 75,000 Idle Agents on a Raspberry Pi By Daniel Rao | October 24, 2026 Here is the dirty secret of the agent boom: most of your expensive AI workforce is doing nothing. It sits there, process held open, memory reserved, meter running, waiting for a build, a webhook, or a human approval tomorrow morning. AWS has just open-sourced a runtime that refuses to pay for that idleness, and its headline number is gloriously absurd: 75,000 concurrent agents fitted into the 8 GB of a Raspberry Pi 5. The runtime is called Infinity. It arrived on October 23, 2026, from AWS and UC Berkeley as part of the Hydro project, under the Apache 2.0 licence, as an early research release rather than a polished product. But the idea at its centre is elegant, and it attacks a cost every team running agents at scale already feels: waiting is not free when your architecture holds a process open for every waiting agent. Anyone who has watched a terminal sit blinking for twenty minutes while a build cra...

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang onstage at Supercomputing 2018, holding a GPU. His company's Open Secure AI Alliance — now run by the Linux Foundation — still has no OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic on its member list. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0 public domain dedication) Nvidia has an answer for why the world's three most important AI labs won't join its AI-safety alliance. The answer is paperwork. In Prague this week, Nvidia's head of cybersecurity policy, Mark Weatherford, told the Open Source Summit Europe that the Linux Foundation has "a queue of hundreds and hundreds of companies" being vetted into the Open Secure AI Alliance — and that this vetting queue explains why OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are not members. It is, to put it gently, not a great answer. A vetting backlog explains why a startup from Tallinn hasn't been admitted. It does not explain why the three companies whose models define the entire field — one of which is actively co...

Anthropic wants its most powerful AI models inside the systems that keep the lights on — and it wants its free bug scanner sending vulnerability reports to open-source maintainers without any human being ever reading them first. That, in one sentence, is the Anthropic Cyber Mission, announced Thursday, October 8: a long-term commitment to defend critical infrastructure and the open-source code the modern world runs on. It might be the most important thing the company has ever done. It might also be a machine for generating noise at machine speed. The industry is genuinely split on which one it is — and Google, of all companies, is leading the skepticism. We checked how the mission actually works before forming a view, because the announcement is doing two very different things at once. The first is a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program that embeds Claude models, Anthropic engineers, and the company's threat research inside the security operations of power grids, water syste...