r/singularity 6d ago

AI Linus Torvalds Reaffirms That Linux Is Not "Anti-AI" And Not A "Social Warrior" Project

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The full quote:

I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer.

Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it.

Or just walk away.

AI is a tool, just like other tools we use. And it's clearly a useful one.

It may not have been that "clearly" even just a year ago, but it's no longer in question today.

There are other questions around AI (like what the economy of it will actually look like in the end), but "is it useful" is no longer one of those questions. Anybody who doubts that clearly hasn't actually used it.

Yes, it can also be a somewhat painful tool, both for maintainer workloads and just from a "it keeps finding embarrassing bugs" standpoint.

But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.

The solution is to make sure those LLM tools help maintainers instead of just causing them pain. There's no question on that side.

We're not forcing anybody to use it, but I will very loudly ignore people who try to argue against other people from using it.

And no, AI isn't perfect. But Christ, anybody who points to the problems at AI had better be looking in the mirror and pointing at themselves at the same time.

Because it's not like natural intelligence is always all that great either.

The kernel project has been and will continue to be about the technology.

Sure, the social angle of working on open source is important and often a very motivating part of the project, but in the end that's a side benefit, not the point of the project.

This is NOT some kind of "social warrior" project, never has been, and never will be.

In the kernel community we do open source because it results in better technology, not >because of religious reasons.

And so we make decisions primarily based on technical merit. Not fear of new tools.

Linus


r/singularity May 17 '26

Community Announcement Discord Server Link

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r/singularity 1h ago

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r/singularity 5h ago

AI Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply

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r/singularity 3h ago

LLM News ❗NEWS❗The former Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Presidential Science Advisor stated that Kimi K3 was distilled from Anthropic's Fable.

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We have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic’s Fable for the development of its K3 model.

To do this they developed a sophisticated internal platform to conduct large scale distillation against U.S. models, allowing them to quickly switch between multiple methods of access to avoid detection. Moonshot AI has also acquired GB300-equipped servers and has accessed GB300s in Thailand, likely to train its AI models.
 
The United States strongly supports the free and fair development of AI, including a thriving competitive ecosystem that spans frontier models, specialized systems, open-source frameworks, and open-weight models. Legitimate AI distillation used to create smaller, more efficient models plays a vital role in this open innovation ecosystem. However, large-scale, covert industrial distillation aimed at stealing proprietary U.S. technology and undermining American research is unacceptable.

Correction: Michael Kratsios is the CURRENT White House OSTP Director and Presidential Science Advisor, not 'former'.


r/singularity 2h ago

AI The Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false

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r/singularity 1h ago

LLM News Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang says Wall Street is "misunderstanding Kimi again," argues American companies should absolutely be allowed to use Chinese AI models.

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TL;DR:

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argues Chinese open-source AI models like Moonshot AI's new Kimi K3 are excellent and should be freely used — directly opposing Trump administration officials and U.S. AI labs (including Nvidia's own customers OpenAI and Anthropic) who are lobbying to restrict them.

He's confident cheap, open Chinese AI won't push U.S. companies out of the market — he thinks it'll actually expand demand for Nvidia's chips and data centers rather than undercut them.

Context: Kimi K3's release sparked a chip-stock sell-off and comparisons to DeepSeek's January 2025 shock, thanks to its strong performance, low cost, and open weights.

Huang rejects "backdoor" security fears about Chinese models, arguing openness — not restriction — makes AI safer, since outside researchers can spot and patch weaknesses.

He specifically calls out Anthropic, urging it to open up its restricted "Claude Mythos" model rather than keep it locked down.

He's skeptical of the "AI race" framing altogether, expecting the U.S. and China to both be developing AI for the long haul.

He also pushes back on Treasury Secretary Bessent's talk of sanctions over alleged Chinese IP theft, saying learning/distillation from other models is a normal part of AI development — enforcement should target misconduct, not the technology itself.

Full Article: https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/nvidia-jensen-huang-china-open-source-ai

Video: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/q0sK7o1E-CoMYKn1C


r/singularity 2h ago

Biotech/Longevity “If you can survive another 10 years, you may live another 50.” Longevity escape velocity will arrive within 8 to 10 years, followed by complete age reversal within 15 to 20 years (Derya Unutmaz)

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From a new interview with Dr. Derya Unutmaz - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJCgQUT1aic

A few timestamps worth checkout out

  • 00:02:16 - Why the next 10 years may add 50 to your lifespan
  • 01:03:24 - "Cancer will be 100% curable, probably less than a decade"

r/singularity 10h ago

Shitposting In light of the recent HuggingFace incident caused by OpenAI's internal model

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r/singularity 12h ago

AI Gemini is behind Meta's Models now, lol

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r/singularity 8h ago

Meme Open AI hacks Hugging Face

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r/singularity 6h ago

AI AI sales start to justify data-center spending boom, report says

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Per Bloomberg:

Global AI sales, excluding China, reached $25 billion for hyperscalers and neoclouds in the first quarter of 2026, exceeding the industry’s estimated $21 billion in depreciation costs.

Generative AI revenue, excluding China, reached $110 billion over the past 12 months and is scaling three times faster than any previous information technology wave.


r/singularity 21h ago

Meme OpenAI hacking huggingface in one meme

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r/singularity 1d ago

Meme in a not so distance future

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r/singularity 23h ago

AI OpenAI's Internal Model Is Responsible This Week's Hugging Face Hack

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r/singularity 7h ago

AI Cisco released their AI model Antares

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r/singularity 3h ago

AI ‘Unprecedented’: OpenAI says AI models autonomously hacked another company

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r/singularity 1d ago

Ethics & Philosophy New insights into recent DeepMind staff departures

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Full article here: Why I Left Google DeepMind


r/singularity 18h ago

Discussion If Hugging Face was actually breached by OpenAI, should we expect OpenAI to face criminal charges in the coming days?

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Additionally, why when Aaron Swartz does it, we throw the book at him so hard that he k**ls himself?


r/singularity 1d ago

AI Sam Altman to brief Trump admin next week on GPT-6 and its capabilities/potential job impact, according to Bloomberg

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r/singularity 1d ago

AI Gemini 3.6 Flash benchmarks

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r/singularity 13h ago

AI Not just combinatorics and counterexamples: GPT-5.5 solving selected problems in pure functional analysis

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r/singularity 1d ago

AI Judge approves a US$1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train Claude - the lawsuit cover half a million books

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this is a like a small country spending in security/privacy/integriity a year

the largest known copyright recovery in history


r/singularity 9h ago

Compute Quantinuum and SoftBank Corp. Publish Joint White Paper on Scaling Practical Quantum Computing Use Cases Toward the Fault-Tolerant Era

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r/singularity 16h ago

AI AlayaWorld is a full-stack, open-source video world model that supports 720p, 24 FPS streaming video generation with camera control

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AlayaWorld is a full-stack, open-source video world model that supports 720p, 24 FPS streaming video generation with camera control and text-driven event generation.

AlayaWorld is built around four core properties — interaction, consistency, stability, and runtime.

🎮 Interaction
Two control channels: a rendered 3D cache with lightweight AdaLN camera modulation for grounded, trajectory-aware navigation, and chunk-level prompt switching to introduce new events mid-generation.

🧠 Consistency
Two forms of complementary memory: an explicit 3D cache reprojected to the queried view for spatial recall, plus a compressed frame-history embedding for temporal continuity, so revisited places stay recognizable.

🛡️ Stability
Long-horizon stability from training on drifted histories and an error bank that re-injects accumulated artifacts into both memory and target, preventing errors from compounding over minute-long rollouts.
⚡ Runtime

Real-time interaction via few-step DMD distillation and short temporal chunks, with prompt switching at chunk boundaries to minimize both visual and semantic latency.

https://github.com/AlayaLab/AlayaWorld/tree/main

https://huggingface.co/AlayaLab/AlayaWorld

Report: https://github.com/AlayaLab/AlayaWorld/blob/main/assets/alayaworld_tech_report_full.pdf