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Torvalds joked about blaming AI for Linux 7.3-rc2 — what actually happened

Torvalds joked about blaming AI for Linux 7.3-rc2 — what actually happened

by Jan Holbo Rasmussen

The joke: “We’ll obviously all blame it on AI”

Linux 7.3-rc2 came out on Sunday 6 September, and Linus Torvalds ended the announcement with this: “It might be just random, but we’ll obviously all blame it on AI, because whether that’s really the cause or not, it’s an easy thing to blame ;)” [1]. That line made the headlines [2]. The rest of the email, where he lists what actually made the release big, got far less attention [3].

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