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🤖 Linus Torvalds is now writing kernel code with Claude Code Phoronix spotted a new branch in his tree, noref-filemap-read-with-llm. It tries to fix thread contention on small file reads. • It reads from the page cache without folio references • Torvalds says the code, test programs and review were done by Claude Code "under my direction" • He ran the measurements on his own machine

🚨 Amazon's reportedly in talks to buy Decart for around $7B Decart builds real-time generative video and world models, and the WSJ report, relayed by Reuters , says nothing is signed yet. Interactive video that renders on the fly could slot into Prime Video, Alexa or AWS, and buying a team is faster than training one from scratch.

🚨 Nvidia-backed Firmus scraps its $5B IPO, and the AI trade just got a crack The Australian data center operator pulled the listing after investors balked at a roughly $30B valuation, a heavy debt load, and only two operational data centers. It's pivoting to a private raise instead, which is a funny way to say the public market said no.

🧠 Michael I. Jordan says superintelligence is science fiction The Berkeley professor and machine learning heavyweight told Libération that AI should be treated as engineering, judged by how it fails in the real world. That's the opposite of the framing coming out of the labs and Washington, where superintelligence now shows up in policy talk and in calls for an emergency brake.

🧠 Berkeley says 10 minutes with AI makes you quit hard problems faster In a study of 354 people doing fraction problems, the ChatGPT group started out more accurate. Then the researchers pulled the tool after 12 problems, and their accuracy dropped almost immediately, and they gave up more often than the group that never had help.

🔐 Anthropic merges its two cyber access programs into one with three tiers The revamped Cyber Verification Program folds in Glasswing, which had Mythos access, and the old CVP, which had loosened safeguards on Opus and Sonnet. All tiers get Opus 5.5, Sonnet 5.5, Mythos 5.1 and future models. The Red Team tier allows authorized pen testing, and only organizations can apply. Anthropic vets members together with the US…

🚨 EU says its AI Act can handle rogue agents. No new rule, just confidence. Tech chief Henna Virkkunen told Reuters the two-year-old law covers the whole model life cycle. Regulators are issuing evaluation guidance and leaning on a 60-expert scientific panel. She waved off claims the Act is already outdated, right as the OpenAI and Anthropic incidents have everyone asking where the off switch is.

🚨 Anthropic's usage policy now covers being a jerk to Claude The updated policy is aimed at extreme cases only: • It targets users who repeatedly act cruelly toward the model with no discernible purpose • Ordinary frustration, pushback, dark creative themes and model testing are exempt • There's still no established evidence that Claude experiences distress

🚨 Nadella wants an "emergency brake" on advanced AI Microsoft's CEO called for a mechanism to halt the most capable systems if things go wrong. That's the guy who sells Copilot to every Fortune 500 company. Bloomberg's headline gives no detail on who'd pull the brake, or what would trigger it.

⚡️ DeepMind says its AI solved 9 open Erdős problems A new arXiv paper from Google DeepMind claims solutions to nine problems from Paul Erdős's famous list. Open means no known proof, at least on paper. Nobody's independently checked the proofs yet. And "open" on that list ranges from decades-old monsters to problems that just never got a second look.