Published Soursen pieces tagged artificial-intelligence, with the standfirst, the beat and the day the piece went up.
AI & GPU compute
Four days after Nvidia’s board said it had confidence in its CEO, Jensen Huang resigned. A short seller had flagged the Megaspeed connection 6 months earlier, and most of the story rests on anonymous US officials, so I separate the filed facts from the allegations.
Linux & open source
On November 7, 2026, Asahi Linux said it is moving every repository to GPL v2 or later. Asahi alleges that unreleased code was lifted from personal forks and that some of it was rewritten with LLM help to hide its origin. The report names no one, and the legal and community questions are still open.
AI & GPU compute
A November 2026 price snapshot grades 25 cards on dollars per gigabyte and dollars per token per second. The AMD Instinct MI50 and a used RTX 3060 take S tier, the RTX 5080 lands in F, and memory decides almost every grade.
AI & GPU compute
Application US 2026/0341309 A1 describes swapping words in live video within 1 to 10 seconds, tailored to each viewer’s profile. The main claim says nothing about telling viewers, no patent has been granted, and nearly every piece of the idea already ships somewhere.
Security
A permission shortcut saves the exact command you approved, password included, into a project file that often gets committed. The bigger lesson is that AI coding agents have created new places for secrets to hide, and the usual scanners are not looking there.
AI & GPU compute
Musk says debt markets have shut on companies that only rent out AI chips. The bond market reached that view before he posted it, and the bigger lesson is how much of the AI boom now runs on rented chips and borrowed money.
AI & GPU compute
MIT researchers had GPT-6 Astra edit 0.016% of a small model’s weights, with no training, and its math score jumped from 7.9% to 48.1%. The number is real and the method is strange. The limit they found in the same paper is the part worth understanding.
Linux & open source
The kernel just took in nearly 20,000 commits in one cycle, a record. The reason is the same force straining its maintainers, AI. The release is the clearest look yet at what that help gives and what it costs.
Security
Playwright bundles its own Chromium that lags Chrome stable, and it launches with the sandbox off by default. For a human running tests that is a small risk. For an AI coding agent browsing the open web on your laptop, it is a bigger one. The fix takes 2 settings.
Developer tools
On 31 October 2026 one of the people who helped build modern AI put up a YouTube clone sourced from 20 years of Hacker News comments. He wrote almost none of the code himself. The build is a small thing. What it says about who can ship software now is not.