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TWiT 1093: California Sober - Kimi K3, Qwen3.8, & China's Open-Weight AI Gambit

Explore episode Jul 20, 2026

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.

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