Linus Torvalds has said AI is fine for competent developers but criticised drive by patches, The Register reported, a maintainer’s version of the same quality problem every open source project now filters. Separately, a University of Michigan professor has created Jac, a Python like language designed for AI agents, The Register reported, adding a programming language to the list of infrastructure being rebuilt around agents rather than people.
In GPU deployments at headline length: Georgia based Silk Cloud has deployed Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs, Datacenter Dynamics reported, and STT GDC will host Neysa’s GPUs at its data center in Noida, India, extending the pattern of regional clouds announcing Blackwell class capacity. Nokia and ICEYE have paired with Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence on satellite cooperation, Datacenter Dynamics reported, a civilian space and telecoms partnership formalised in the same week Starshield service was restored. ZTE has unveiled a data center module designed for AI workloads.
Google’s fiber unit is set to take up a dark fiber leasing contract from Ting Fiber in Colorado Springs, Datacenter Dynamics reported, a small municipal fiber transaction in a market Google has been quietly consolidating. InsurTech company Reliance Global Group plans to acquire a GPU cloud company and pivot its strategy, Datacenter Dynamics reported, the latest small listed company re rating attempt built on GPU capacity rather than its legacy business.
Finally, a TechCrunch study item found that, forced to pick in political tests, xAI’s Grok model chooses Republicans while OpenAI’s models choose Democrats. Paired with the ModelCompare result in today’s full stories, the week’s model behaviour evidence points the same way: model outputs track their training and tuning provenance closely enough that provenance, not the prompt, is usually the explanation.