OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it is "quite terrible" that so much of the world's limited DRAM sits in personal computers that use it maybe 5% of the time, arguing it would do more work in a data center. Superwhisper, a popular Mac dictation app, now has a native Linux app for system-wide voice input, with local transcription on CPU or GPU or cloud processing for speed; it is not open source. voiceio is an MIT-licensed offline dictation app that streams text into apps on Wayland and X11 and can fine-tune its model on your own recordings while the computer is idle. OpenKruise Agents runs AI agent sandboxes on your own Kubernetes cluster, with API keys kept out of the sandbox via an egress proxy that pulls them from Kubernetes Secrets. Linux 7.4-rc1 is out with a record merge window of 19,671 commits, against 16,267 for 7.3, and Torvalds credits a wave of fixes for bugs AI found. Nikkei Asia reports off-balance-sheet AI obligations at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Oracle grew 90% in six months, to about $3.2 trillion.