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ZDNET’s key takeaways
- Torvalds says AI is now genuinely useful for Linux maintainers.
- Linux 6.18 was the kind of release he likes: boring and stable.
- Torvalds is calmer now, but some things still make him testy.
At Open Source Summit Japan in Tokyo, Torvalds shared his latest thoughts on AI.
It has only been a few weeks since Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux and Git, and his longtime friend, Dirk Hohndel, Verizon’s head of open-source…

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